One of the emerging impediments to an acceptable outcome of Multilateral Agreement on Climate Change is the continued insistance by some developed countries that climate change mitigation actions need to be comparable across board cutting across both developed and developing countries, and developing countries insisting that the burden of historical responsibility on Greenhouse Gases emissions must be one of the key principles coupled with capability to mitigate in designing mitigation actions.

Critical countries in this debate are the four developing countries which have become major players in greenhouse gas emissions. They include: Brazil; South Africa; India; and China, collectively referred to as BASIC countries in the climate change negotiations.

To this end, experts from these four countries held a side event to Equitable access to sustainable development , available at http://http//gdrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/EASD-final.pdf


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Philip Otieno