China and India should have lower emissions targets than developed nations, a new United Nations report recommended, according to the Financial Times. The report by the UN Development Program sets the agenda for a summit in Bali next week to decide a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. The UNDP report says China and India should reduce their emissions by 20% by 2050, but industrialized nations must reduce emissions by 80% in the same time frame. The report found that the world needs to spend 1.6% of GDP annually until 2030 to prevent emissions rising to dangerous levels, and said that industrialized countries should reduce their emissions by 20% by 2020. The US has said that it will not participate in any agreement that doesn't include China and other rapidly developing countries. The Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
The US knows that China will never sign on. China's position has been: western nations are responsible for most emissions. Now that China is climbing out of Third World status you want us to bear the brunt of emissions reduction effectively sending us back to Third World status and guarantying that we stay there. No.
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