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(amount of emissions required to get to 350 ppm / population of the earth) = allowed emissions per capita

allowed emissions per capita * number of people in country = country's future emissions level

for each country
	country's current emissions level - country's future emissions level = required cuts per country
end

Everyone in the world has the same right to pollute as much as anyone else. It makes no difference which side of a line on a map that they live, because the atmosphere is global.

The approach taken by global emissions reduction talks in the past is doomed in that it takes as a given the primacy of the state and assumes that those states are in competition with each other.

In order to move beyond that failed model we need to look at the interests of humanity as a whole. Only by calculating a global per capita carbon ration, as I did above, do we have any hope of a fair outcome.