{"id":74790,"date":"2020-12-30T18:16:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=74790"},"modified":"2020-12-31T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T05:26:14","slug":"inequality-of-emission-targets-among-developed-and-developing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/inequality-of-emission-targets-among-developed-and-developing-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Inequality of emission targets among developed and developing world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Synopsis:\u00a0<\/strong>The current Climate change policy is designed to favour the interest of developed world over the interest of countries in the process of development, like India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India, during the\u00a0<strong>Climate Action Summit in Paris,<\/strong>\u00a0avoided the commitments to\u00a0<strong>cap emissions<\/strong> but agreed on an\u00a0<strong>intended nationally determined contribution<\/strong> to reduce global temperature below 1.5 degree Celsius.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, with India\u2019s\u00a0<strong>per capita emissions<\/strong>\u00a0at one-third of the global average, India is set to meet its Paris Agreement target for 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Whereas the western and EU countries which are responsible for the majority of the resources used, and have achieved the well-being of their people, are not committed in the proportion of their contribution to climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why India\u2019s stand on not committing to cap emissions is justifiable?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Main problem doesn\u2019t lie with the Indian model of development but with the colonial model of Industrialisation and urbanisation i.e., overly resource-intensive and defining progress as material abundance. This model has created the inequality, which western countries are not acknowledging.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly<\/strong>, Inequity is built into the climate treaty, which considers total emissions, size, and population, making\u00a0<strong>India the fourth largest emitte<\/strong>r, not the per capita emission.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>For example, China, with four times the population of the U.S., accounts for 12% of cumulative emissions while India, with a population close to that of China\u2019s accounts for just 3% of cumulative emissions, have almost same commitments.<\/li>\n<li>According to the United Nations, the richest 1% of the global population emits more than two times the emissions of the bottom 50%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second<\/strong>, North America and Europe were responsible for half of the global construction material use before 1970s, the share declined after the development started in Asia\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Reconstruction in the West after World War II led to acceleration of material use, resulting emissions and sharp rise in global temperature around 1970, before growth commenced in Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third,\u00a0<\/strong>Targets of \u2018carbon neutrality\u2019 are not justified for the countries like India, which are already on the path of less energy-intensive development and is on the pathway to reach comparable levels of well-being of the west.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fourth,<\/strong>\u00a0India is already performing better than the West in certain sustainability benchmark like housing size and density, public bicycle transport and eliminating food waste.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>For example, the meat industry, especially beef, contributes to one-third of global emissions. Indians eat just 4 kg of meat a year compared to those in the European Union who eat about 65 kg and Americans who eat about 100 kg.<\/li>\n<li>Also, it is to be noted that the average American household wastes nearly one-third of its food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fifth,<\/strong>\u00a0While the Transport emissions which is one of the fastest-growing emissions worldwide and regarded as the\u00a0<strong>symbol of Western civilisation<\/strong>\u00a0account for a quarter of global emissions they are not on the global agenda.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sixth<\/strong>, India is under pressure to stop using coal, which powered colonialism, even though India\u2019s per capita coal use for electricity generation is one-tenth that of the U.S.. Also, India\u2019s measures to shift to electric vehicles and eliminate oil has not been recognised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India should push for an alternate 2050 goal in the UN for the countries with below average per capita emission by utilising it credibility based on its civilisational and long-standing alternate values for the transition to sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>The goals should be aimed at\u00a0<strong>well-being of people within ecological limits, Sustainable Development Goals<\/strong>\u00a0and multilateral technological knowledge cooperation around electric vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis:\u00a0The current Climate change policy is designed to favour the interest of developed world over the interest of countries in the process of development, like India. Background: India, during the\u00a0Climate Action Summit in Paris,\u00a0avoided the commitments to\u00a0cap emissions but agreed on an\u00a0intended nationally determined contribution to reduce global temperature below 1.5 degree Celsius. 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