That, of course, would expand the
opportunities for rich countries and rich - world companies to offset their emissions from dirty coal and inefficient cars by buying credits on international carbon markets.
They
allow for rich countries to continue to emit and have potentially devastating affects on people working within the land sector.
First, carbon trading is treated with suspicion, as it seen as a
way for rich country polluters to shift the full costs of their carbon emissions to developing countries.
We need to demonstrate to the rest of the world that this is not an
affectation for rich countries — that this is as big an opportunity for developing counties as it is for wealthy countries.
It loses sight of the basic fact that aid is principally for the benefit of developing country partners,
not for the rich country donors or their private sector interests.
«Just three weeks ago at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, they
called for richer countries do more to cut their own carbon emissions and increase their support to the most vulnerable and worst affected communities and countries who are least able to protect themselves from climate change.»
«If we don't have an AMC, we're going to have lifesaving pneumococcal vaccines
developed for rich countries but there's not going to be enough capacity to supply them to the poor countries,» says Orin Levine, executive director of PneumoADIP at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
«The worst economic crisis in decades was apparently a mere hiccup in terms of carbon emissions: a temporary
drop for the richest countries in 2009, and hardly perceived by emerging economies.
Create «Human Obligations» means to formulate news ways (as International Volunteer Service)
for rich countries citizens to help most needy people!
Why isn't development of this African gas resource, for both local and global markets, a
priority for rich countries that claim they are committed to helping Africa break the bonds of persistent poverty?
This is something particularly relevant in the United States, which — nearly
unique for rich countries — has a fast - growing population and very high rates of emissions per person.
Ultimately, financing the GCF will become the negotiating
chip for rich countries to buy off support from poorer ones.
After hard negotiations, emission reduction
targets for rich countries were agreed and would become legally binding for those nations that honoured their commitments by ratifying the treaty, once it entered into force.
It is going to be
expensive for the rich countries to decarbonize their economies and equally expensive for the poor to develop their economies with low - carbon energy.
In other words, improving FF use has NEVER resulted in a lower consumption at a world scale, although it has some
times for the richest countries where all basic needs were fulfilled, because they are always enough poor people who need to use them more.
This paper draws attention to the main challenges the 2030 Agenda
presents for rich countries, by highlighting a set of critical child specific indicators, evaluating countries» progress towards meeting the Goals, and highlighting gaps in existing data.
Cancer treatment costs are rising at such a rapid rate that they threaten to become «unsustainable»
even for rich countries, according to The Lancet Oncology medical journal.
For a rich country that claims international leadership it's a truly shameful situation.»
«A 40 - percent CO2 reduction for 2020
for rich countries, that should be the minimum,» he said.
The developing countries are worried it's a way
for rich countries to shirk their own responsibilities to cut emissions.
The UN said it will use Tuesday's gathering to press world leaders to do more: to cut more carbon and,
for the rich countries, put up more cash to help poor countries cope with climate change.
One way to restore trust would be
for rich countries to channel their climate finance through funds that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change set up as they have a governance structure with equal representation from developed and developing nations.
One of its top recommendations was
for rich countries to get out of coal as quickly as possible.
Maruška Mileta, from Young Friends of the Earth Europe said: «As youth, we reject a backdoor deal made by and
for rich countries, which will condemn millions of people in the global South to death.
The only just way to go about this is
for rich countries to pay, even though they claim to be broke.