Over the years, environmental protection agencies have agreed with the Kyoto Protocol in that more developed countries contribute more to green house gases, over 95%, compared to less developed countries. Therefore, the argument has always been that industrialized nations should equally bear the brunt of financing the mechanisms that will make LDC's and developing countries adapt and overtime lessen the impacts of climate change on their people. The major disagreement has been the emission reduction target set by the KP, which holds the industrialized nations to reduce their emissions by 5.2% of the 1990 levels by the year 2012. This deadline is approaching fast, and crucial decisions will be made if green house gasses want to be significantly reduced.
One of the developing countries that will stand for change is Nigeria, who has many demands of how they want their funds to be distributed. However, even as a LDC, one major emission problem of Nigeria is the flaring of associated gas by the petroleum companies operating there, which could account for significant percentage of the overall Nigeria’s green house gas levels. Other factors include poverty, and poor regulations to maintain "eco rules" on citizens cars which produce a large amount of emission. This relates to how many different factors can influence how a simple decision is made. In this case, politics, poverty, and unregulated rules all combine together so a LDC will continually be held down by MDC's so standards won't be met. This is hurting not only LDC's, but MDC's because they have to deal with the wrath of global climate change and this problem won't be going away anytime soon.
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http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/climate-watch-green-house-gas-and-vehicular-emission-in-nigeria/
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