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Together these two groups of emissions , produced mainly by industrial countries , account for some 80 percent of global warming ( what scientists call radiative forcing ) : carbon dioxide for 56 percent , CFCs for 24 percent ...
Together these two groups of emissions , produced mainly by industrial countries , account for some 80 percent of global warming ( what scientists call radiative forcing ) : carbon dioxide for 56 percent , CFCs for 24 percent ...
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Each country's allocation is its permissible level of emissions , or quota , and each country is responsible if it surpasses that level . The CSE study thus questions the basis for allocation used by established sources of environmental ...
Each country's allocation is its permissible level of emissions , or quota , and each country is responsible if it surpasses that level . The CSE study thus questions the basis for allocation used by established sources of environmental ...
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An equally important matter , one of principle , is whether the “ survival emissions " from subsistence farming in poor countries should be judged on the same basis as the luxury emissions of automobiles used by the rich .
An equally important matter , one of principle , is whether the “ survival emissions " from subsistence farming in poor countries should be judged on the same basis as the luxury emissions of automobiles used by the rich .
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| Title | Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for Survival |
| Author | S. S. Ramphal |
| Publisher | Lime Tree, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0413455815, 9780413455819 |
| Length | 291 pages |
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