Stahlke Theresa
Department of Economics, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 09596 Freiberg, Germany.
J Soc Econ Dev. 2023;25(1):86-102. doi: 10.1007/s40847-023-00235-2. Epub 2023 Feb 28.
Until the late 1990s, developing countries had perceived the pursuit of development as coming into conflict with the mitigation of climate change. Research showed that mitigation and development can go hand in hand, giving rise to the co-benefits approach. In this paper, the relationship between aiming for development and aiming for climate change mitigation is analyzed from the perspective of the developing country India. While industrialized countries prefer the approach of co-benefits of mitigation, developing countries tend to follow the development-first paradigm with mitigation co-benefits, as a literature and document study show. India had a long way to come from the notion that mitigation was threatening economic growth to adopting the co-benefits approach. The paradigms of "differentiated responsibilities" and of having a right to emit as much as the industrialized countries are deeply rooted. This is also shown by India's reaction to the current economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
直到20世纪90年代末，发展中国家一直认为追求发展与缓解气候变化相互冲突。研究表明，缓解与发展可以齐头并进，从而产生了共同效益方法。本文从发展中国家印度的角度分析了追求发展与追求缓解气候变化之间的关系。正如一项文献和文件研究所示，虽然工业化国家倾向于采用缓解的共同效益方法，但发展中国家往往遵循以发展为先、兼顾缓解共同效益的模式。印度从认为缓解会威胁经济增长到采用共同效益方法，还有很长的路要走。“区别责任”以及与工业化国家享有同等排放权的模式根深蒂固。印度对由新冠疫情引发的当前经济危机的反应也表明了这一点。
