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Originally Posted by White Doors
So WHAT? Even if that is true, Don';t you have a serious issue with China and India not having to make any reductions?
it's ridiculous.
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Not really. It was never intended that China and India would never have to make emissions reductions. Kyoto was designed to be re-implemented and negotiated every five years were developing countries would have certainly been brought into the fold. And really, it's not the developing countries' fault for where we are right now. China and India have only up until the past 20 years been emitting serious emissions and have emitted a mere fraction of the total emissions over the past 250 years that Western Europe and the rest of the developed world have emitted that have created the problem of where we are today.
So yeah, we have enjoyed all of the fruits of early development but the instant we have to pay some of the costs of early development all of a sudden it's okay to be indignant and point fingers at countries which aren't responsible for the problem at all because it isn't fair? The developing nations said that they wanted to see a real and concerted effort from the developed Annex B countries before they were shoulder the burden as well. They never said that no they would never sign on, they wanted us to be leaders but as anyone with any knowledge of international relations knows, the Western Industrialized countries are hardly the people you would want to entrust a responsibility so great upon.