Should industrialised countries seek to override their "non-negotiables", he added, the four countries would stage a collective exit from Copenhagen.
These developments present the opportunity to revise broad assumptions of appropriate energy system investment models for non-industrialised nations without an expensive historical centralised high voltage AC industrialisation legacy.
Gramsci had seen the problem of the backward, non-industrialised south as fundamental to modern Italian history.
When it topped the index in 2006 its ecological footprint per person was no higher than those in non-industrialised countries like Mali and Swaziland, life expectancy matched that in Turkey, and life satisfaction levels were considered as high as New Zealand's.
Actually, the expression "Third World" was coined by the French economist Alfred Sauvy in a 1952 article with reference to all non-industrialised nations: "for this Third World ignored, exploited, despised as the Third Estate was, itself aspires to become something".
Water efficiency is being improved on a global scale by increased demand management, improved infrastructure, improved water productivity of agriculture, minimising the water intensity (embodied water) of goods and services, addressing shortages in the non-industrialised world, concentrating food production in areas of high productivity, and planning for climate change.
The first-born effect was however tested in a cohort of young men and therefore further studies are required to establish with greater confidence the magnitude of the effect in other populations, and the potential variability in populations living industrialised and non-industrialised settings which may be exposed to different dietary and lifestyle factors.
Immigrants from non-industrialised countries tended to concentrate in some city areas, but no specific enclaves had been established.
Cultural background was therefore used as a proxy for health beliefs, and divided into 'western', people from industrialised countries, and 'non-western', people from non-industrialised countries.
Bandaranayake defined the traditional scope of international health as 'any instruction in comparative morbidity or mortality, service provision, demographic change and disease prevalence in non-industrialised developing countries'.
A Mediterranean diet has been shown to have a beneficial effect on the occurrence of diseases in industrialised and non-industrialised countries.
