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This paper shows that various climate change negotiation outcomes can have substantial and differential development effects on developing countries. The authors review key negotiation issues in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate change negotiations, set out key scenarios and model their effects on incomes in poor countries. The paper suggests that developing countries gain from emissions stabilizing policies as they enjoy lower environmental damages but they suffer a reduction in GDP if they themselves are subject to emissions stabilizing policies without a breakthrough in technological change.