I have a guest post at Climate Progress, China’s Copenhagen Commitments: A Workable Solution. Please go check it out.
A commentator raises an issue about China’s per capita carbon emissions, which on an annual basis are only about one fifth of US per capita emissions. This great disparity is one of the reasons that much less is expected of China than the US at Copenhagen. I do not think it is a sufficient basis to absolve China of all obligations, but that discussion deserves its own post. Stay tuned.
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1 SinoEnvironment // Apr 8, 2009 at 12:14 pm
But absolute is absolute, right? We are talking about totals of carbon into the atmosphere AFTER there developed recognition of global harm. One still needs to recognize a global goal against which individual national interests must thereafter be justified. So it doesn’t seem that material to me — just because you have way more people doesn’t mean you can feel entitled to rise to a higher acceptable total of world destruction, especially if it comes after the shared goals are identified. That’s my opinion.
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