Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.
It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it's changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.
Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.
The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.
A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.
Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
