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SPM- 30 A 16 3 16 3 The word "commons" may be replaced by "common".
REJ; would change meaning
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(Government of Pakistan)
SPM- 30 A 16 3 16 5 Since climate change.....effective". This is based on the well known REJ; this comes from
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results derived from general concepts in economics and trade
theories and not necessarily the finding of the AR4. The specific
contribution of AR4 is not clear unless this is referenced to the
specific text in the report.
(Government of India)
assessment of literature in Ch 13
SPM- 30 A 16 3 16 5 This statement seems subjective and presumptuous. It would seem DISCUSS 13 See text in
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to imply that there is already an effective and less costly approach
executive
against which other approaches can be compared (perhaps Kyoto?).
summary on
This has certainly not been demonstrated. It also implies that
“higher share of
alternative approaches on a more limited scale have no chance for
global
success. It can certainly be argued that a smaller, targeted group of
emissions”
emitters might work together to demonstrate a more sustainable and
climate-friendly trajectory, and that working in a bottom-up fashion
through such targeted groups may have more success than a topdown
process involving all major emitters. I would delete the lines
or reword the sentence to include the possibility of success for a
smaller, targeted group of emitters. U.S. Government
(Government of U.S. Department of State)
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SPM- 30 B 16 3 16 4 … respecting …responsibilities, do not include all countries: Please ACC; reformulate
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rewrite this sentence, as it suggests (wrongly) that the principle of
CBDR prevents the inclusion of all countries.
(Jean-Pascal van YPERSELE, Université catholique de Louvain
(Belgium))
SPM- 30 A 16 4 0 0 Would it not be useful to point out here, for example, that China, REJ; too detailed; paras 1 and 2
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the USA and India alone have accounted for over 70% of the
World's increase in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use since 1990?
Do even SPM readers know that World CO2 emissions from fossil
fuel use have risen over 30% since 1990?
(Michael Jefferson, World Renewable Energy Network &
Congresses)
deal with this issue
SPM- 30 A 16 4 16 5 delete "do not", change: "more" to "less" and "less" to "more". ACC
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