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‘But we’re just 1% of emissions’: do smaller countries’ climate efforts matter?
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The argument that smaller countries' climate efforts are insignificant due to their relatively low emissions has been made by leaders of several wealthy nations, including the UK, Australia, and Germany. This perspective is often used to justify delays in reducing pollution or to resist implementing stringent climate targets. The use of emissions percentages to downplay a country's responsibility to address climate change has become a common rhetorical device among some world leaders.
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‘But we’re just 1% of emissions’: do smaller countries’ climate efforts matter?
Past and present leaders of wealthy nations such as UK and Germany have argued their actions are insignificant
On first hearing, it is a position that sounds reasonable. “When our share of global emissions is less than 1%,” Rishi Sunak argued when he was the UK prime minister in 2023, “how can it be right that British citizens are now being told to sacrifice even more than others?”
Sunak is not the only world leader …
30 Jun, 15:53
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