This article would not seem, judging by its title, to be friendly to GDRs, or indeed to any principle-based approach to a truly international climate policy. After all, the title echoes the incessant Northern complaint that Southern countries turn every global crisis, and every historical injustice, into a kakistocratic demand for money from the North.
But this is not Amin’s argument. Rather, he states that, if southern negotiators “come to the table with financing as their main and only issue, their voices will be even more marginalized.” And then he goes on to state, with rare clarity, that developing countries must go beyond demands for financial assistance to “make the case for a principles framework through which the burden of climate change could be shared.” Which is, together with the acknowledgement that per capita systems have their own problems, where GDRs comes in.
An unexpected surprise.