The after-paris agreement and the development crisis: why the emerging countries must assume larger responsability in the climate action

Abstract

The article approaches the challenge of induce the compliance of the international determinations against climate change before the inequalities between the nations. Observing the history of the international treaties on the subject, the recently industrialized countries, dependents of the carbon industry, shouted their right to economic development and excluded themselves from the obligations of reduce pollutant emissions, while the developed countries claimed not being able to reach the reductions level demanded on their own. The present research is justified by the urgency in overcome this impasse, since the current analyses indicate that will be necessary more ambitious goals on the part of each nation to maintain bearable climate levels in the next decades. Through the deductive method and bibliographic search, it is analyzed the legal structure of the Paris Agreement to comprehend in which way it assigns the responsibility in a differentiated manner to parties, and, yet, submits them to progressive contribution. It is concluded the responsibility of the developing countries in comply to the climate obligations as their economic capacity grows as a way to shield their future human development, threatened as the carbon industry becomes riskier and exhaustible.