The single most important issue in the climate change debate is the question of how northern industrialised countries can pay southern industrialising countries to develop cleanly. Unless an answer is found soon, there is no hope of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.
Projected emissions of greenhouse gases from the global south would trigger dangerous climate change even if the north were to cut its emissions to zero tomorrow. The developing world is already responsible for 45 per cent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, with China having just overtaken the US as the biggest single emitter and India set to become the world’s third largest emitter by 2015.
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