Правовое регулирование выбросов парниковых газов в Китае и Индии: роль в достижении основной цели Парижского соглашения
Legal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions in China and India: The role in achieving the Paris Agreement’s main goal

Summary/Abstract: Dangerous climate trends, which are associated with increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and accelerating global warming, have persisted globally in the natural environment even though the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed in 1992 and the Paris Agreement (PA) was adopted at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in 2015. This article explores the current legal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions in China and India, the world’s two largest emitters of carbon gases, and examines the publicly available data on greenhouse gas volumes they produced during the period between 1990 and 2023. The analysis showed that, given the existing legal framework for greenhouse gas emissions in these countries, the relatively high costs of the green energy transition, their unwillingness to act against their economic interests, and the large number of poor people, one of the main goals of the Paris Agreement, to limit the human-caused global surface temperature increase, is unlikely to be achieved in the near future. China has a more developed (although still insufficient to reach the above goal) set of legal measures aimed at limiting global temperature rise. The findings suggest that an effective strategy for making progress on the achievement of the Paris Agreement goals is to elaborate and implement legally binding international and domestic regulations. This primarily applies to the countries responsible for the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions, including China and India.

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