"That will involve keeping countries happy with the division of labor as regards carbon trading, as regards how much they want to hold back their own industrial development, even though they say particularly many of the EU's new countries that they were poor for a long time, no different than the Chinese, that they have a right to develop their economy, that it is the rich countries in Europe that are more responsible for climate change than they are and they should get special treatment in any kind of EU position."

VOA: standard.2009.10.29

This study looked at the world as a whole, but the scientists say that it does show that the "digital divide" between rich and poor countries is growing.

BBC: Global data storage calculated at 295 exabytes

Now that pollution is damaging the world we can't possibly turn to the poor countries and say now we have grown rich, you can't develop.

CNN: Kyoto outcry: What they said

Debt forgiveness, they say, means that less money will flow back to the institutions to be lent to other poor countries later.

ECONOMIST: Should poor countries' debts all be written off?