What five important things have you learned about China and India and the developing countries?

1) Their participation is harder to convince to stop environmental pollution because we, as an already very developed country, have already done what they are trying to do, which is to grow and develop.

2) The rate of growth is extremely rapid

3) With the Kyoto Protocol some more developed countries are helping the developing countries develop but in more sustainable ways.

4) Some 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation.

5) In developing countries some 2.5 billion people are forced to rely on biomass—fuelwood, charcoal and animal dung—to meet their energy needs for cooking. In sub-Saharan Africa, over 80 percent of the population depends on traditional biomass for cooking, as do over half of the populations of India and China.