When I played my role in the policy exercise as a\nrepresentative of India, I felt like we needed help since we were still a\nsomewhat developing country and at first we were not getting the help we\nneeded. I think the other groups didn\u2019t understand that we needed help because\nwe weren\u2019t under the \u201cDeveloping Countries\u201d category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we started negotiating with other countries, I think\nthey started to realize that even though we are not under that category, we\nstill need help. We have so many people in our country and this contributes to\nour country\u2019s carbon emissions and the other countries started to realize that\nour emissions were from our high population not necessarily each individual\nusing an extreme amount. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After negotiations, our group was able to get money from\nChina and the US, which was great considering the US was only going to give $17\nat first. I think these other countries and ourselves realized after we played\nwith the numbers on the chart that deforestation and afforestation aren\u2019t going\nto do much and that its actually the rates that will affect the temperature. I\nthink after these richer countries saw that they came to the conclusion that\nthey need to help the more developing countries so that we have the resources\nto make this possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the end, I think that we can cut emissions, but I don\u2019t\nthink it will be feasible in the next couple decades to cut it to the goal we\nhad of only 2 degrees. Cutting emissions this dramatically would impact\npeople\u2019s every day lives and change their lifestyle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mentioned before, I think one of the major cost barriers was\nthat at first the US was not giving any many, when India and the developing\ncountries requested $230 billion combined and initially, there was a little\nover $100 billion. Eventually, the US contributed but not nearly as much as they\nshould have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think we can catalyze change in the US by reducing our\nemissions now gradually and then we will adapt to it, and hopefully this will\nsteadily decrease emissions over the years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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