A recent study1 reports results from a broad survey of country stakes in the control of greenhouse emissions. Resource and impact vulnerability are identified as the major aspects of the issue.
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The sub-dimensions of resource vulnerability include renewable energy resources, potential for carbon sequestration, nonrenewable energy resources, and employment vulnerability.
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The sub-dimensions of impact vulnerability are sea-level rise and weather-related damage.
Results indicate that even neighboring states in the same region can have very different orientations toward a global protocol, due to different combinations of resources and vulnerability. Even with good information and programs tailored to country conditions, the results suggest that, due to the varying resource-vulnerability conditions, many countries may resist a global protocol unless they are compensated for disadvantages associated with resource vulnerability.
Although individual countries have very different stakes in climate change negotiations, the global resource-vulnerability conditions are much clearer and more positive. The assessment of renewable energy alternatives suggests that the world community can draw on clean energy sources to ease the transition to global sustainability.
1. Buys, Piet, Uwe Deichmann, Craig Meisner, Thao Ton That, David Wheeler, Country Stakes in Climate Change Negotiations: Two Dimensions of Vulnerability. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4300, 2007 (see library below)
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