Just some months before Poznan meeting and a little more then a year before Copenhagen and hopefully a new treaty the tactics have started. Or you can call it a blame game! The Swedish minister of environment declared that developing countries with fast growing economies must do essential contributions when it comes to mitigation of greenhouse gases. Of course there are some truth in that but this does not mean that industrial countries can be passive. And if you look at per capita emissions there are no developing country that reach levels of industrial countries!
There is nothing good in this way of pointing fingers and say that others should do! If there is no solution to the question of burden sharing before Copenhagen we risk a situation of a locked up negotiations!
The idea in Greenhouse development Rights ( originating from Stockholm Environmental Institute and Christian Aid and others) can serve as a tool to lock this up.
In short it says that there is a threshold for doing mitigations. In a country like US 95 % of the population comes over that threshold but in China about 25%.
I hope that this can give some stimulation to new way of thinking and stop the blame game
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