The principal investigator (AS) met with each faculty member for one hour to provide additional assistance, centered on developing focused learning points and case-based questions.
Developed countries devote five times as much to fossil fuel subsidies as they spend on assistance to developing countries for adaption and mitigation strategies to counter global warming.
In return, he said, "developing nations will receive U.S. assistance packages focused on developing the institutions of liberty, the rule of law and property rights".
"In exchange for removing those barriers and opening their markets to U.S. investment and trade, developing nations will receive U.S. assistance packages focused on developing the institutions of liberty, the rule of law, and property rights".
They could allocate more resources to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to assist in formulating recommendations and providing technical assistance for developing countries on ways to respond to cyber-security threats.
On financial assistance to developing countries, both for adaptation to the effects of climate change, and to help them mitigate their emissions, negotiations have effectively stalled.
In late 2011 the international development community convened in Busan, South Korea, to discuss and agree on principles on how to deliver effective assistance to developing countries [ 33].
The most important of these include the governance and operation of the Green Climate Fund, which will provide a channel for financial assistance to developing countries; the rules on how emissions from land use change and forestry should be counted; and new mechanisms to support adaptation and to prevent the loss and degradation of forests.
There is also hope of establishing negotiations on financial aid and technological assistance to developing countries which will bear the brunt of global warming.
To that end, the United States should provide long-term assistance to Pakistan focused on developing not only its security apparatus, but also its civil society, economy and democratic institutions.
