High Hopes

"The central issue in any international climate agreement is the role of the rapidly developing countries that are responsible for almost all of the recent growth in greenhouse gas emissions-primarily China, followed by India, and then several others. They consistently say it's unfair and unacceptable to require them to limit their emissions and thus slow their peoples' climb out of deep poverty when the Western countries grew rich as a result of dumping huge quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere without restraint-gases that will stay there for decades or centuries."

read the full article in Columbia Law School Magazine