The Greenhouse Development Rights approach debuted in December 2004 at a side event at COP 10 in Argentina, with a paper and presentation by the original author’s group – Sivan Kartha, Paul Baer, and Tom Athanasiou – entitled Cutting the Gordian Knot. The final, reworked version was published on April 15 2005, under the title Cutting the Knot: Climate Protection, Political Realism, and Equity as Requirements of a Post-Kyoto Regime.
