The bigger deadlock remains, however, with the once and
future major emitters of greenhouse gases — the United States and China — still locked in the old Alphonse and Gaston routine, each offering the other the opportunity to step first.
Not exact matches
Those three groups formed a key alliance during the Durban conference that forced the United States and
major emerging economies like India and China to commit to negotiating a
future broad climate deal that binds all big
emitters to cut carbon.
Some possible explanations could be the legal form of the
future commitments, the continuation of Kyoto Protocol, the role of
major emitters and of course the ambition of mitigation targets.