Indeed, even the contributions to the Fund should have reflected the past damage by the developed countries over the course of a century of carbon emissions – an obligation based on the well-established tort principle that the US has accepted for domestic pollution. But here, too, the US has rejected the idea outright.
事实上，该基金的出资额应该反映发达国家过去一百年中的排放所造成的伤害——美国在治理国内污染时就采取了这一完善的谁侵权谁承担义务的原则。但是，在全球气候变化基金这件事上，美国拒绝完全采用这一办法。