Contract and converge

It's tough for the Kyoto protocol -but it may be that Russsia won't ratify and a change -if it happens- in the complexion of the USAmerican administration may not get the USA to ratify either. So is there anything that can be done? I remember seeing this in a magazine a while back so it was good to find this Guardian article from December last.



The alternative -and perhaps even eatter alternative to Kyoto is "Contraction and convergence" and relies on the idea of setting a budget for how much carbon ther can be in the atmosphere which would be divided up on a per capita basis amongst the world's population -so we would all carry our share. How that would work beyond that -well emissions permits which could be traded. So Bangladesh could sell their unused surplus of possible emission to the USA ... read it in the article