Some people think that developed countries have a higher responsibility to combat climate change than developing countries. Others believe that all countries should have the same responsibilities towards protecting the environment. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion. Write at least 250 words. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Some argue that the wealthy nations of the world have a bigger responsibility in addressing

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others think that it is equally the responsibility of a developing country as any developed country. I completely agree that the advanced economies of the world should do more to address global warming and

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as they are the major contributors to the problem and developing countries can only do a little because of resource constraints. Historically, the rich and the wealthy countries of the world, have been the major culprit in greenhouse gas emissions. Rapid industrialisation resulted in significant air pollution and environmental destruction resulting in rising global temperatures and melting polar

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a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)

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, it is their moral responsibility to do more in fighting the

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and expecting rising and poor economies to share their problem is far from right.

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, the biggest contributors to global warming has been the US and the western Europe and

rising economies

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the rising economies

like India and China have negligible contributions to the problem.

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, tackling

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in an expensive affair. Switching over to renewable sources of energy and eco-friendly industries

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need

technological expertise and financial resources.

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, expecting low and middle income countries to pitch in especially at time, when they are facing other bigger challenges

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as poverty, malnutrition and unemployment is unfair.

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, most of the impact of

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is faced by the poor and smaller countries.

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, low

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lying, poor

countries

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as Bangladesh see significant destruction from stronger and ever powerful cyclones occurring

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of

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. To conclude, developed countries need to help the poor ones by taking a major share of the burden to tackle

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global concern.