Greenhouse Development Rights

Today Stockholm Environment Institute presents new figures on their idea of distributing the efforts to cut the emissions of Greenhouse Gases in a more equitable way.
The results is a big challenge to everybody on the earth. Forget the talk of EU 20 % cuts and if a global agreement will come, 30%,to 2020 as a success. The developed countries needs to do MORE than 100%!And that means definitely more than 30 % to 2020!
How can the emissions cut be more then 100%? Because the developed world have to do more than only domestic cuts! So if you thought that you could buy your part of emissions from somewhere else and go on with the same amount of emission, forget it!
Executive Director of SEI Johan Rockström says

"- Taking drastic action is not a choice; it is a necessity. The planet will not remain within safe thresholds without emission cuts of more than 100% in developed countries. These cuts should address domestic and international emissions, as well as the emissions from our consumption of products produced abroad."

Now if someone thought of this as bad news I am not sure that is right. This is a way of locking up the negotiations of UNFCCC. Every country have a responsibility to cut emissions but as it has been said for sometimes, shared but differentiated.

China, India, Brazil, South Africa, etc, everyone will have to do their homework, but the largest part will be done by the industrialized countries like the US and EU.

Sivan Kartha, the author behind the GDR:s says “- The bottom line is that the current climate negotiations will not succeed until they address the fundamental challenge of human development for the poorest people on the planet”

Now, this is the real challenge of climate change!