Re:Climate talks break up with no agreement on carbon trading
by einpoklum on Sunday December 15, 2019 @01:20PM
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Carbon trading is when a polluting economy/state throws its weight around to keep polluting. It's that simple and that wrong.
There should be no such "credits", just emissions reduction plans - and the states which should be required to reduce the most and the fastest are those which pollute the most per capita, and the most period.
Of course, this won't happen because the largest polluters are also the most politically powerful, so they rig things in their favor.
* How to account for the unfairness in the fact that some countries got to pollute freely for a couple of centuries while others didn't get this "free pass" and are still behind in grid development.
* The question of whether absolute pollution should count more than pollution per capita or the other way around.
* The extent and the form of aid by richer/more industrially-developed economies should be committed to help with technology to poorer economies which already pollute a lot and will have difficulties adjusting independently.
There should be no such "credits", just emissions reduction plans - and the states which should be required to reduce the most and the fastest are those which pollute the most per capita, and the most period.
Of course, this won't happen because the largest polluters are also the most politically powerful, so they rig things in their favor.
Let's name the names: China, US, India, Russia, Japan, Germany, Iran, South Korea, Canada, Brazil. https://www.countryaah.com/top-10-countries-that-contribute-...
What should be negotiable IMHO is:
* How to account for the unfairness in the fact that some countries got to pollute freely for a couple of centuries while others didn't get this "free pass" and are still behind in grid development. * The question of whether absolute pollution should count more than pollution per capita or the other way around. * The extent and the form of aid by richer/more industrially-developed economies should be committed to help with technology to poorer economies which already pollute a lot and will have difficulties adjusting independently.