Just to give it a real world example. Between 2012 and 2022 Chinas electricity generation from coal increased by 1,675TWh. Globally it only increased by 1,329TWh. So coal emission would have decreased, if China would have built some sort of low carbon power generation instead. The other country adding a lot of coal in that timeframe was India with 576TWh. To put that into perspective high income countries generated 2,192TWh from coal in 2022.
So just working in the rich countries does not solve climate change alone(it has to happen thou). All poor countries should however also be aware that even if they get rich, they face the same problems rich countries have today, of shutting down perfectly good fossil fuel infrastructure to save the planet.
Just to give it a real world example. Between 2012 and 2022 Chinas electricity generation from coal increased by 1,675TWh. Globally it only increased by 1,329TWh. So coal emission would have decreased, if China would have built some sort of low carbon power generation instead. The other country adding a lot of coal in that timeframe was India with 576TWh. To put that into perspective high income countries generated 2,192TWh from coal in 2022. So just working in the rich countries does not solve climate change alone(it has to happen thou). All poor countries should however also be aware that even if they get rich, they face the same problems rich countries have today, of shutting down perfectly good fossil fuel infrastructure to save the planet.