16 Jan 2008

China and India: Energy and Climate Change
Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies, Madrid, Spain.
Extract: "China and India: Energy and Climate Change (ARI), Pablo Bustelo, ARI 136/2007 (Translated from Spanish) - 14/1/2008 [...] The Bali Summit yielded disappointing results for the interests of China and India because they did not include mandatory cuts in CO2 emissions for developed countries or rule them out for developing ones. It is true that both might change in meetings scheduled for 2008 and 2009, but such an unsatisfactory start is still worrying. China and India believe that the principles of common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities mean that it must be acknowledged once and for all that developed countries are chiefly responsible for the greenhouse effect, that developing countries will suffer the effects of climate change more than rich ones and that poor countries have the right to develop, especially as there are still 1.5 billion people in the world who do not have the luxury of electricity. In summary, developed countries should not shift their responsibilities onto the main developing nations, for all the energy they consume or CO2 they emit, or might in the future. - p. bustelo"
Site contents: * Summary; * Analysis; (The IEA report; Table 1. Consumption of primary energy (millions of tons of oil equivalent), 1990, 2005 and 2030; Table 2. Coal consumption (millions of tons), 1990, 2005 and 2030; Table 3. Per capita and accumulated emissions of CO2 (through energy consumption), per capita GDP and number of people living without electricity); * The Responsibility of Developed Countries; * Conclusions.
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