BCOR 1015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bushmeat, Neotropical Realm, United Nations General Assembly
Document Summary
A developing countries right to develop is more important than environmental protection. Frank jotzo, october 15 2004: australian national university. Developing countries and the future of the kyoto protocol. Developing countries are home to five out of the six billion people, but historically have contributed only around one quarter of greenhouse gases from energy consumption now accumulated in the atmosphere. Energy use and emissions per person in developing countries on average are still only around a quarter of that in industrialized countries. Resources for economic restructuring are much more limited in developing countries, with average per capita incomes less than one quarter than those in the industrialized world. Moreover, adverse impacts of climate change are likely to affect developing countries particularly badly. Poorer countries insist on their right to develop, and greenhouse gas constraints (along with other environmental policies) are often seen as obstacles to development.
