But I continue to believe that framing climate diplomacy, as Singh did, as a problem of "burden sharing" is one of the major barriers to progress.
As no burden sharing targets have been agreed it is hard to argue that burden sharing has been internalized at any level.
They like the idea of burden sharing.
Liberals, like Barney Frank, trot out burden sharing as a way of gaining bipartisan support for Pentagon budget reductions.
Last time it was called "burden sharing" and ended – as it will again – with hundreds of refugee prisoners brought ashore to Australia because they have nowhere else in the world to go.
In some sense, this proposal can also be considered as progressive since there is no burden sharing at all for the two lowest groups.
This is not burden sharing.
The question is about European burden sharing.
"I understand US taxpayers are interested in fair burden sharing.
In the oddly euphemistic jargon of international finance, this is known as "burden-sharing," or even more obscurely as "private sector involvement".
Mr. Chin said most Asian leaders now see the G-20 as better reflecting the evolution of the world economy than the G-8 and believe the larger forum has more potential to encourage benefit-sharing, as well as burden-sharing, among the key participants.
