Responsibility for emissions and aspirations for development

China's Responsibility for Climate Change: Ethics, Fairness and Environmental Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 47-69

  Bina, Olivia ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS   (Portugal)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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