Here, a mother carries her baby as a child wades behind on a street flooded with sea water in Mayangan village in Subang, Indonesia's West Java province, on July 16, 2010. The impacts of climate change, including sea-level rise and flooding, have been felt around the world for years. 'If you don't sell your slaves or free your slaves first, why should I? Nobody's asking the slaves.' deciding who should sell their slaves or free their slaves first,' said Huq. 'When I hear these arguments, I hear slave owners. Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh, who has been at every annual COP meeting since they began in Berlin in 1995. 'Fairness is always in the eye of the beholder,' said Prof.

Have questions about COP26 or climate science, policy or politics? Email time, although science behind human-caused climate change is clear and damage is mounting, especially in parts of the world least responsible, success depends on wealthy, polluting countries coming to agreement.

Claims of unfairness were part of the failure of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and one of the arguments used by President Donald Trump when the U.S. What's fair - a concept so fundamental that toddlers and chimpanzees have opinions about it - has been far from simple when it comes to global climate change negotiations. Starting Sunday in Glasgow, the Conference of the Parties (COP) will meet for the 26th time in three decades trying to decide how to split the bill. Why should developing countries refrain from fossil fuels when some have been gorging for, well, more than a century?īut now, there's no doubt, it's time to pay up. Others joined the table, hungry for their turn and a taste of the same. Perhaps, at first, the cost wasn't clear. The early diners - call them developed countries - ordered advancements and luxuries without concern for the atmospheric price. The feast has been grand, at least for those who arrived early on. This story is part of a CBC News initiative entitled Our Changing Planet to show and explain the effects of climate change and what is being done about it.

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