The principle is fundamental demand of India which requires the carbon space in the atmosphere for its economic growth. Currently the developed world occupies roughly 70% of the atmospheric space and unless countries like the US vacate it partially by reducing their emissions, poor countries would not be able to up their growth levels without tipping the climate change into an irreversible and extreme level.
Pershing was speaking off the record to a group of international NGOs in a closed door meeting at Doha when he ripped into the principle of equity that underlies the sharing of atmospheric space. His reason: he said that he could not sell the idea to his domestic audience therefore the world would need a compromise between what is needed and what US can sell back home politically.
Pershing said, "It's a vision you can say that the atmosphere can take an X quantity of coal emissions and therefore what you do is you divide that number into percentages. The obligation it states is that you (the US) would have to reduce its emissions down to negative 37 per cent (below 1990 levels) . And the obligation of China will be a tiny bit, but India can still grow quite a lot. The politics of that quite frankly really don't work. I can't really sell that to the US Congress."
Suggesting that the US prefered to decide back home how much it was willing to do and just pledge that and not look at what is required as per science, he said, "One way to think about it is what could you deliver. You say what you are going to do and you will be held to that. So how do you marry the reality of what you are doing with the reality of what is needed. To me, it's going to be a hybrid. It's going to be something between those two."
Unlike the Kyoto Protocol approach where the UN convention first decides how much reduction is required and then apportions the burden, Pershing suggested, in what is not a new US position, that each country decide independently what it wants to do and just bring it to the global table.
Reiterating that US domestic political situation was paramount, he added, "Because if we can't take it home and sell it at home, in whatever political economy we are living in, we won't do it."
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