In the latest post, The hidden global CO2 emissions of consumerism, new research suggests that CO2 emissions associated with consumption in wealthy, developed countries accounts for a significant fraction of emissions in developing nations. As the authors conclude, acknowledging this might be a first step to developing better relations with China and India about greenhouse gas reductions: "Consumption-based accounting reveals that substantial CO2 emissions are traded internationally and therefore not included in traditional production-based national emissions inventories. The net effect of trade is the export of emissions from China and other emerging markets to consumers in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. In the large economies of Western Europe, net imported emissions are 20–50% of consumption emissions; the net imported emissions fall to 17.8% and 10.8% in Japan and the United States, respectively. In contrast, net exports represent 22.5% of emissions produced in China. Thus, to the extent that constraints on emissions in developing countries are the major impediment to effective international climate policy, allocating responsibility for some portion of these emissions to final consumers elsewhere may represent an opportunity for compromise."