UN Summit on Climate Change in Paris – Destined to Fail or Succeed?

... will their cost: for instance, damages from forest fires in the unusually hot summer of 2010 were estimated at about 500 billions of roubles, or 1.2 % of the Russian GDP at the time . Two-thirds of global CO2 emissions are generated in just ten countries with China, the US, India, and Russia topping the list . Per capita emissions however vary: for instance, these were 6.7 metric tons per capita in China against 17 tons per capita in the US, according to the World Bank data for 2011-2015 . UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol and negotiations on ...