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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal. The cost of fully implementing the Kyoto Protocol (in terms of lost economic growth) has been estimated at roughly $180 billion a year. In the next thirty years, a substantial percentage of greenhouse gas increases will come from carbon emissions by developing countries.