The developing world now contributes a very large amount of emissions itself. It can no longer simply rely on the developed world to cut emissions as increases from the developing world could easily overwhelm cuts from the developed. South Korea plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 4 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels this represents a 30-percent decrease from the level predicted for 2020. This makes South Korea the first developing nation to pledge to reduce its emissions absolutely compared to today rather than pledging not to increase its emissions by as much as they would have done otherwise. This in itself shows that the Indudustrialising nations could do more themselves. South Korea now provided the example to persuade them to do so.

South Korea is not a real representation of the level of participation the developing countries must take and while South Korea's industrialization is not fully dependable on the industries that can increase the number of emissions, countries like the People's Republic of China or Bangladesh must do the most that they are able to do, which is less than what South Korea is able to do.

At the moment the lack of initiative from the industrialising nations is the other half of the stalemate. While it is the developed world, expecially the U.S. that is considered to be to blame for the current stalemate this equally exists from the U.S. point of view because China and India are not moving to provide some cuts of their own. The U.S. still does not want to have massive costs for reducing its CO2 costs while China can keep emitting more and more. South Korea's willingness to provide a leadership role might help these developing nations that it is their side that can be the ones to go beyond the sticking point.

The emphasis should not be on the developing world, even those members of the developing world who are currently creating large emissions. These nations emissions per capita are much lower than the developed world in most cases and they are not the ones who have put most of the CO2 that is currently in the atmosphere there.

So long as South Korea is considered part of the developing world by the rest of the developing world it can provide leadership for them. If something is needed in Copenhagen right now is to have countries taking a "me first" initiative offering to do what is necessary rather to what they want to; on a basis that is soon followed by the countries of a certain economic sector, this way ending possible justifications on any individual interest that countries may have; which in this case we can call "industrialization" or "money"; which are both far under what the the climate change problem represents.

Unlike many developing or industrialising nations South Korea is already pretty much developed. South Korea has a GDP per capita of $27,700^[1] which compares favourably with the poorer developed countries such as Greece at $32,000^[2] and is considerably above the ex-communist countries of eastern Europe who are in the European Union and are therefore already a part of the commitment to make cuts of 20% by 2020. This means that South Korea is not so much leading the developing nations but following its developed peers. Other developing countries need industrialization to grow and expand economically to become as developed as South Korea.

1. ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ks.html
2. ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gr.html

The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) Should not stop industrialization(the only effective way to dash out of poverty), when America, the most powerful country in the world, is not pulling the brakes on it's polluting capacities.The four countries need/vie to develop and would be bonkers not to jump at the chance to do so. Countries/nations are selfish, they don't think outside of the box of their own boundaries to saving the world/Earth/Planet, such work is best left to international nonprofit non-government orgs.

We are spiraling downwards into the extinction of the human race, we might as well live it up before our inevitable doom.

We'll are going to die, being mortal, just as the human race and much of the planet is pretty much dead, so countries should try to grow ,develop and exploit resources while they can.