Title: How to Break the Climate Stalemate Between the Global South and the North

Published by: YES! Magazine

Date: December 2009

Excerpt:

Rich and poor countries are in this together. If either fails to step up, the planet is in trouble. A climate deal must take into account the Global North’s responsibility for nearly 70 percent of greenhouse pollution and the Global South’s need to move out of poverty. The North must cut back sharply on emissions while the South leapfrogs over the industrial age to clean-energy prosperity.

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