Wednesday 10 September 2008

Is it fair for MEDCs to expect LEDCs to limit their greenhouse gas emissions?


A good place to start for this is the BBC Weather Climate Change mini-site. From here you should navigate to the 'Policies' section and read about the Kyoto Protocol and the mini-section 'Rich v Poor'.



The other main BBC portal is here. In particular you could look at this Q&A section on the Carbon Trade and how it might work for LEDCs and MEDCs. If you have a hunt around from the main BBC portal you will find a number of relevant articles including this one about Japan and one about China.

Also check out a previous BLOG entry.

The main ideas you should be including might be:


Can we, as developed countries, dictate the GHG emissions of countries desperate to develop themselves?


Should developing countries have the same limits on their emissions as developed countries? Surely they need less energy than us?


How do we persuade developing nations to use less polluting energy sources?

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