«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long
time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point
in the future has long
given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term
goals, rather like guys
in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,»
Frame said
in an email.
The study argues that the total annual cost of
giving all children and adolescents
in developing countries an education will rise from $ 149 billion to $ 340 billion
in the
time frame of the new sustainable development
goals.