Moreover, abandoning the Kyoto Protocol’s exemption of developing countries from obligations for current emissions, the US has insisted on obligations from China and India that reflect a common form of “taxation” of emissions. But there are persuasive reasons why these countries insist that the obligations must instead reflect per capita emissions, a criterion that would require far greater emission cuts by the US than its leaders now contemplate.
此外，美国要求废除京都议定书对发展中国家排放义务的豁免，坚持认为中国和印度也必须承担责任，以反映普适的排放“税”。但这些国家则坚持认为减排责任必须反映人均排放——根据这一标准，美国应该减少比其领导人预期更多的排放量——它们能拿出有说服力的理由。