What are the arguments of developing countries with regards to curbing emissions?
What will be an ideal response?
The developing countries, led by China, counter that the wealthier countries are the main source of the total excess carbon in the atmosphere and that each individual in wealthy countries produces far more carbon than each individual Chinese or Indian does. Therefore, the wealthy countries have an obligation to reduce emissions the most. Moreover, denying countries now industrializing the right to pollute will doom them to inferior status forever. The wealthy countries benefitted from unlimited carbon pollution while they were industrializing, for which the entire world will pay the price, and it is unethical to ask countries now industrializing to curb their development prematurely. Furthermore, the poorest countries argue that they have not caused the problem but will suffer the greatest effects, making a moral claim on the major polluters to reduce pollution and pay for mitigation of climate change’s worst effects.
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