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# The G8, the Kyoto Protocol and the world
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18306/
- Published: 2005-06-08T16:06:39.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:33:36.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

As Tony Blair concludes discussions with George W. Bush in Washington on climate change and poverty in Africa, [Benito Mueller](http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate%5Fchange%5Fdebate/2586.jsp) argues on openDemocracy that the UK, along with the rest of Europe, Russia and Japan should stick with the Kyoto Protocol, and even to open it up to sub-state actors in non-Parties like the US and Australia.

For developing countries, he says, climate change is not only a matter of mitigation or adaptation; it is a crosscutting issue of disaster management, desertification, biodiversity, trade, and, above all, development.

Mueller says the points in finding a way forward for an international climate regime beyond 2012 are:

\* resist attempts to force climate change into a ghetto and ensure that issues of adaptation and impacts are not driven off-stage in the course of negotiating a post-2012 mitigation regime

\* keep the Kyoto-track (i.e. differentiated mandatory emission caps & flexibilities) negotiations for industrialised countries

\* make provisions for “as-if-Parties” who are willing (and able) to play by the rules of the treaty but have not managed to (or cannot) get formal ratification by their governments

\* engage developing countries by addressing their emissions without imposing additional economic burdens.

(full text [here](http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate%5Fchange%5Fdebate/2586.jsp))

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