This past Tuesday we played the role of China in our Climate role playing negotiations. When we played our role as a table, I felt like we were in high demand for negotiations. As a country, we had the highest carbon dioxide emissions compared to all the other countries. as we went on, we were more willing to negotiation, with more lenient feelings, since we knew we had the highest CO2 emissions. While we decided to cut emissions earlier, other countries also became more lenient and cooperated so we could indeed cut them. In the end I think emissions can be cut with a full cooperation efforts between the countries. One of our biggest barriers was the high demand for negotiation with us, and the developing countries asking for so much. U.S. needs to make a greater effort to negotiate with other countries and turn more financial focus towards CO2 emissions.
