Equity 'not addressed' in climate talks

Long-term equity concerns are not being adequately addressed in climate negotiations so far, said Chinese scholars, emphasizing that equity is not a barrier to further emission reductions, but a key enabler of them.

At a side event held at the China Pavilion on Friday, scholars from China released a report on developed and developing countries' responsibilities for climate change and carbon dioxide mitigation using a model generated by independent research.

It shows that developed countries accounted for about two-thirds of global warming from 1850 to 2005, but they only contributed to one-third of mitigation efforts. The case for developing countries is just the opposite: They accounted for one-third of global warming, but contributed to two-thirds of the mitigation efforts.