This is a guest post from Britney Wilkins; she writes at Online College.
As the United States and other developed nations continue to pressure developing nations to conform to their global-emissions protocol, it has in turn become a global debate that serves to affect the economies of these nations. With the United Nations climate conference looming closer in the calendar, countries such as India are getting ready to unleash their negotiation tactics in an effort to protect their nation’s own interests. There is a major difference between developed and developing nations which proves to be a debilitating constraint when attempting to allow them to grow at a rate Western nations grew at the same point in their evolution.
Countries such as India and China have opposed Western requests to decrease various carbon dioxide emissions and maintain that the West never had caps on similar emissions during the Industrial Revolution. Regardless of the time period, such emissions had the same debilitating results but also allowed many nations to reach the status point they are at today. Therefore, India maintains that it needs to release these types of emissions in order to become a fully developed nation. The recent bill passed in the United States by the House of Representatives has served to ruffle some feathers as the bill states that the U.S. will impose sanctions on countries that did not accept the binding emissions cuts. “Sanctioning” is a term that developing nations fear, as it has only served to further hamper the capacity of developing nations to grow and instead nearly sets them backward on the road to development. Read the rest of this entry »
