Climate Change Agreements, should developing countries be excluded from the agreement?

Question

I've been reading recently about Climate Change Agreements, and I was really surprised with the fact that developing countries do not have full rights in Kyoto Protocol. Why do you think it is like that?

Should developing countries participate in Kyoto Protocol or should it be excluded?

Answer 1

Everybody knows that developing countries don't have as much money to spend on renewable energy and the like. Not only that,  their per capita emissions are often very low.

Consider the fact that first world countries have been emitting and profiting for decades and it makes sense.

To answer your question... they need to be included, but their contribution should be subsidized financially from countries who can afford it.

Please note: there are poor countries that are participating in Kyoto.

Answer 2

the climate-change-agreement itself should be abandoned altogether. if it does not allow equality for every nation... it will eventually be used as a weapon against the weak.

have-a-loving-day!

Answer 3

We don't even know if the human population of the planet can survive the warming we've already built into the global climate, so how could any development, anywhere, be tolerated at this point?

Besides, "development" is a polite term for exterminating local cultures and religions and making the inhabitants slaves to corporate Western culture.  Western culture has proven to be extremely damaging and unsustainable.  In no way should cultures or countries be encouraged to adopt Western culture's negative values and impact.  Their growing impact certainly shouldn't be subsidized.

Even classifying countries as "developed" or "developing" relies on gross generalizations that completely ignore local cost of living.  Why should thriving residents in Calcutta or Beijing get cheap subsidized dirty power while the millions of poor and homeless in the United States struggle to survive, with minimal access to food, shelter, and healthcare?  How many additional "developed" country citizens should go without heat because their power is priced several times higher than developing country prices?  How many people must die to give global capitalism cheap labor and manufacturing?

As we better understand the true cost of fossil fuels, no one should be exempt from paying for mitigating the consequences that they cause.  Developed country residents will pay more because they use more.

Within 30-50 years a coal-fired power plant will be recognized as a WMD, and building one will be equivalent to comitting an act of terrorism on the rest of the planet.  Since we can predict with confidence that that day is coming, there should be a total moratorium on coal power plants and any completed after 2010 should be bombed as quickly as any other WMD facility.

Answer 4

The rationale was along the lines that from a moral perspective the already industrialized nations caused the problem, they should bear the initial brunt of mitigation.  From a capitalistic viewpoint, the rationale is that climate change will affect China and India as well as the developed nations, they will eventually have to adopt mitigation technologies from the developed countries.  Therefore, some of the money spent developing things like efficient carbon recapture sequestration coal-fired power plants and fuel-efficient engines will be recovered selling the technology back to the developing nations.  

Whether or not you think that will happen is another story.  I think there are problems with both positions, but you have to start somewhere and it is true that climate change will hit China and India hardest since they are already resource stressed.  They will have to mitigate at some point.

Answer 5

Kyoto excludes India & China & other so called developing countrys,they can put out as much pollution as they want. kyoto only puts the western countrys back in the stone age so the developing countrys can get ahead of us with no competition.

Answer 6

China is SO broke they cannot pay bulls**t

For 2005, Chinese foreign trade reached $1.3 trillion (81% of GDP of $1.6 trillion), with a trade surplus of $102 billion (6.4% of GDP).

Answer 7

Climate Chnage agreemetns do not exclude the developing countries from the agreement.

Under the UNFCCC, it was decided that through GEF (Global Environmental Facility), devleoped countries will provide funds to developing countries for cutting short there carbon emissions. this fund is provided in the from of projects developed by the developing countries.

The coutry providing or investing in the project like that will get a boost in her carbon emission quota.

In this way developed countries can continue their development, and in developing coutnires further development will be environmental friendly.