IGCSE Economics经济学真题解析第一题

Global Wanning

Recently, the Chinese economy has grown by around 10% a year. This has  improved the average living standards of its 1.3 billion  population. However, rapid economic growth can contribute to global warming,  through increasing carbon emissions, and this can lead to more extreme  weather.

The governments of more developed economies, such as that of the  USA, argue that developing economies, such as those of China and India,  should do more to solve global warming for example, by reducing their  emission levels. However, this may lead to reduced economic growth in these countries.

Countries such as China argue that many of the problems of global warming have been created by developed economies which grew rapid