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Growing movement for fair share climate commitments Issued on: 11/05/2021 - 07:42 The concept of fair share emissions cuts has been gaining traction among environmental and human rights organisations for several years SAUL LOEB AFP/File 6 min Paris (AFP) When US President Joe Biden pledged last month to cut his country s carbon emissions in half by 2030, Japan and Canada quickly followed suit. But many green groups and scientists say that this is still not good enough. Biden s initiative may have won praise from political allies, but these campaigners want to see a different calculus rooted in history and ethics. To keep the world from tilting into catastrophic warming, they argue, developed nations that got rich burning fossil fuels must face their historic responsibility for the climate crisis and pay for it, too.

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