The Paris Climate Change Agreement: China and India
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This paper assesses how the Paris Agreement on climate change affects China and India. Taking a twail (third-world approaches to international law) approach, it argues that patterns of exploitation are repeated in different fields. The unfccc required developed countries to reduce their emissions before developing countries would be required to do so. While some developed countries are keeping to their side of the bargain, others are failing to do so. Nevertheless, China and India have accepted an agreement with targets for all countries which requires considerable sacrifices in the energy field but possible gains in the water field. While both countries have agreed to reduce the rate of growth of their emissions, they have high expectations of climate finance, which are unlikely to be fulfilled. Their commitments require major changes to national policy, scarcely the sort of tinkering that the no-regrets policy in India has achieved.
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Zhong Xiang Zhang, ‘Is China Taking Actions to Limit its Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Past Evidence and Future Prospects’, in Promoting Development While Limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Trends and Baselines, edited by J. Goldemberg and W. Reid (New York: undp and wri, 1999).
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The Paris Climate Change Agreement: China and India
In: Climate LawSearch for other papers by Joyeeta Gupta in
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This paper assesses how the Paris Agreement on climate change affects China and India. Taking a twail (third-world approaches to international law) approach, it argues that patterns of exploitation are repeated in different fields. The unfccc required developed countries to reduce their emissions before developing countries would be required to do so. While some developed countries are keeping to their side of the bargain, others are failing to do so. Nevertheless, China and India have accepted an agreement with targets for all countries which requires considerable sacrifices in the energy field but possible gains in the water field. While both countries have agreed to reduce the rate of growth of their emissions, they have high expectations of climate finance, which are unlikely to be fulfilled. Their commitments require major changes to national policy, scarcely the sort of tinkering that the no-regrets policy in India has achieved.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 4880 | 422 | 30 |
| Full Text Views | 775 | 43 | 5 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 804 | 110 | 12 |
