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Originally Posted by jorgelito
China and India most certainly should not be left off the hook. They have exhibited strong desire to be global leaders - with leadership comes responsbility and they should have seized this chance to "one up" the US by taking the lead on this.
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China and India are developing countries. Developing countries are not bound to reduce emissions. Their emissions on a per capita basis are far below those of the west. Countries such as these require an increase in emissions to reduce their level of poverty.
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
Developing countries have no immediate restrictions under the UNFCCC. This serves three purposes:
* Avoids restrictions on growth because pollution is strongly linked to industrial growth, and developing economies can potentially grow very fast.
* It means that they cannot sell emissions credits to industrialised nations to permit those nations to over-pollute.
* They get money and technologies from the developed countries in Annex II.
Developing countries might become Annex I countries when they are sufficiently developed.
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full text:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...Climate_Change
Once these countries are no longer 'developing', their future emission level growth will be limited.