Climate change mitigation climate change are more damaging in poor nations, where infrastructures are weak and few social services exist. The Commitment to Development Index is one attempt to analyze rich country policies taken to reduce their disproportionate use of the global commons. Countries do well if their greenhouse gas emissions are falling, if their gas taxes are high, if they do not subsidize the fishing industry, if they have a low fossil fuel rate per capita, and if they control imports of illegally cut tropical timber. The main current international agreement on combating climate change is the Kyoto Protocol. On the 11th
Taking action to combat climate change and its impacts in Myanmar to travel miles for water where lakes have not dried posing considerable livelihood challenges. On April 22nd, 2016 Myanmar signed into the United Nation's Paris Agreement reinforcing its interest to help combat climate change internationally. During September of 2015, Myanmar submitted its new climate action plan to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change well ahead of the December 2015 conference. Although only 0.01 of all greenhouse emissions are from Myanmar, the ratifying of the agreement allowed for financial and technological aid for capacity building from international organizations to fight climate change. In 2017, the Ministry of Natural Resources and