In Beijing, the top U.S. climate change negotiator says that “there’s a deal to be had” at the November global warming summit in Mexico. On November 29, senior government officials from around the world will gather for a meeting to discuss global warming in the city of Cancun. Fairness is at the heart of the issue because developing countries like China and India say that rich countries like the U.S. should be responsible for the heavier burden because they have a responsibility over history for carbon already in the atmosphere. However, the U.S. and other nations think that emerging countries like China need to do more. While China has pledged to show the rate of its carbon emissions, the U.S. wants proof and measurement of those targets. This is an example of how grants could be used to help poor countries pay for technology to mitigate their carbon emissions.
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Kilee Imlay
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The United States wants other countries to follow their plans and notions of global warming, wanting China specifically to prove statistically that they have started to cut emissions on a large scale. While this is something that the U.S. envisions all countries standing behind, it is not. In many developing nations they simple cannot afford to cut emissions, because of its huge adverse effect on their economies. If the United States and other economic powers want world emissions to be lowered they should work in collaboration with the developing nations to achieve this goal instead of simply mandating a change under their sole efforts. Realizing that all nations do not have the economic means to facilitate this change is the biggest draw back to lowering world wide emissions.
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This is a very interesting topic at hand, because both sides of the argument have a good points. It is understandable that countries like China and India would have a position of bringing up the history of countries like the US and Britain for creating pollution for past decades. But it is also a solid point that newly advancing countries need to pay attention to their pollution, as many times in developing countries this point is overlooked as growth is in such demand/desire. It is clear that these countries do not have the money and many not for a while to fix their emissions issues, but it may be a smarter thing for countries to have to take loans to fix the problem now to create a better world for today.
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