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With the intention to push the other nations, EU put import duties on goods that had their origin in countries with a certain minimum per capita GDP without emission reduction targets. This was a surprising action for many at that time. However, it was also brought forward because EU was steering towards more unification and had now own EU ministers being responsible for each field on EU wide level. EU had even one minister called EU Ministry for Climate Change Issues. <br> | |||
This fact plus China becoming a more and more the trading partner number one (before US) for the EU, changed the negotiation behavior of EU and thus it also ignored the WTO, which abolished such trade barriers. <br> | |||
The idea was to give the money received by this import duties to developing countries for education and GHG reduction measures (James Hanson). During the end of this period the developing countries also started to employ it for the implementation of green technology and thus realized that could become realistic to agree upon reduction targets. <br> | |||
In another step the EU Minister for Climate Change issues raised the internal emissions reduction target even further. <br><br> | |||
In the past China had bought land some parts of Africa, which it was using for farming to provive the Chinese population with food. An increasing number of droughts in Africa damaged the harvest on these lands. This added to the natural catastrophes still occurring in China. <br><br> | |||
Behind the curtains of the UN climate conferences China and EU were talking about the implementation of the import duties by EU. For China this was not a problem, since they had emission reduction targets in place. However, China was planning to implement such import duties on goods from countries without any reduction targets as well. This was good news for EU. Because since EU had this import duties its relation to US worsened slightly, which affected some EU exports to US. With China putting the same import duties towards the end of this period, US did not have much choice. The biggest trading partner for U.S. was China and EU. <br><br> | |||
In the climate negotiations, however, US was still concentrating on its own industry and thus was not willing to put any emission targets. The developing countries still had other problems, like fighting poverty and improving infrastructure. So the climate change would still negatively affect their growth. During this period they did not agree to put emission targets. Furthermore they were not affected by the import duties of China and EU, since their GDP/capita was under the threshold. | |||
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