Responsibility For The Climate Change Crisis

Responsibility for the Climate Change CrisisStudent’s NameDepartment, Institutional AffiliationCourse Code: Course NameInstructor’s NameDue DateResponsibility for the Climate Change CrisisBeginning in the Industrial Revolution era, developed countries particularly in the European Union have contributed to a greater part of the heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Developing countries have a significantly lower footprint but they bear an equal or greater brunt of the forest fires, drought, floods, and intense heat waves. Recently, six Portuguese citizens filed a case against 32 European countries in the European Court of Human Rights, accusing the nations of their leniency in addressing the human-caused climate change crisis. A win in this case is likely to drive developed countries into scaling up their climate change mitigation efforts. It has lingered in the minds of many as to whether developed countries should assume greater responsibility for climate change, and the answer is in the affirmative, considering their contributory scale. In 2017, there were deadly wildfires that raged across Portugal, destroying 500,000 hectares of land while killing 100 people (Paddison, 2023). Responsibility for