[legacynl]

> China, The US, and India all turned down invites despite generating 34%, 12%, and 7.6% of global emissions respectively [0]

Perhaps this is for the best? I assume if they did intend they would be mostly saying 'no' to everything?

Now things might get actually accepted by willing participants, which might allow it to snowball and gain traction, which might convince one of those 3 to join at a later date.

[alephnerd]

They can't though. None of the participants hold cards that can convince the US, China, or India otherwise, as those 3 also represent around 42% of the global economy [0].

Additionally, other major polluters like ASEAN (Indonesia, Vietnam, Phillipines, Malaysia), Russia, the GCC (Saudi Arabia, UAE), and Turkiye turned down the invitation.

[0] - https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PPPSH@WEO/OEMDC/ADVE...