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German climate change initiative

  • 14/10/2007

german Chancellor Angela Merkel's backing for allocating emissions budgets on a per capita basis will come as sweet music to leaders of the developing world. This has been one of their key demands in climate change negotiations, one that the developed world has almost unanimously refused to countenance till date. The implications are obvious. An emissions budget so reckoned while being equitable both to countries that are low on the industrial league table and ones that are both populous and industrialising rapidly

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