Copenhagen trap

On carbon emissions and climate warming associated with the scientific community, there is still controversy. 17th century since the end of the Little Ice Age, temperatures have been on the rise. The role of human activity superimposed on it. And politicians must respond to possible threats. Copenhagen and after subsequent negotiations can imagine the plight of the fundamental dispute is not academic, but rather the existing international order distortions.

Needless to say, the history of carbon emissions come mainly from developed countries, but developing countries bear the Group requested a mandatory emission reduction obligations, while poor brothers are reluctant to provide adequate funding and technology to help them reduce emissions. The most tragic is that Africa is the historical responsibility of the smallest carbon emissions, puts are the most affected areas. A data predicted that if the global warming of two degrees Celsius to maintain the goal, Africa will rise by 3.5 degrees Celsius.

If the clock back a hundred years, and now there is little industry in developing countries, mostly European colonies. The sovereign state does not care about the welfare of local people, but to their own interests, they are likely to reach some sort of global emissions reductions with the implementation of the program. If the fast-forward a hundred years, when the gap between developing and developed countries will be greatly reduced, science and technology more advanced, is also expected to address more smoothly.

History, however, get people the threat of global warming is just such a turning point in the advent of: the old international order would be bad not bad, the new order, call the no. Two camps developed and developing countries, have the power to block each other, but not enough to build.