A low carbon import tax on countries that are not investing in energy-efficient production is unfeasible, according to the EU trade commissioner-designate.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union should not impose border tariffs on goods from countries that fail to cut back their climate-damaging emissions, the EU’s trade commissioner-designate said on Tuesday.
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BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — As the international community strives to fight climate change, some developed countries have proposed carbon tariffs as a way to tackle global warming.
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COPENHAGEN, Dec 17 — Malaysia has agreed to reduce its carbon emissions 40 per cent by the year 2020 compared to the 2005 levels, subject to assistance from developed countries.
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There are so many potential landmines awaiting negotiators in Copenhagen—from big-ticket items like emissions-reductions targets to financing to seemingly arcane items like forest protection—it’s hard to single out just one that could blow up the whole thing. Could carbon tariffs do the trick?
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Reports have emerged that the US is pushing for a commitment to liberalise trade in low-carbon products and services as one of the desired outcomes from the Copenhagen Summit.
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BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) — Of all the measures to tackle climate change, some are effective, others are not. Carbon tariffs is clearly not a constructive one, which will not only wound global trade and economy, but also undermine the hard-won common consciousness of the world to fight global warming.
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“Trade Ministers at the WTO Ministerial this week should unite and oppose climate change protectionist threats that could add a ten per cent carbon tariff on imports,” said Tim Wilson, Director of the Trade and Climate Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs.
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HILLARY Rodham Clinton displayed the naiveté of a 19th-century Bible Society lecturer recently when she badgered India to embrace the Gospel of Global Warming by curtailing its sinful carbon dioxide emissions — commonly known as greenhouse gases.
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Okay, forget all that nonsense about how coal, or nuclear power, or natural gas will decide the Senate’s debate over the climate bill. It really seems to be boiling down to trade.
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AARE, Sweden — Britain opposes the use of carbon import tariffs against developing countries to encourage them to tackle global warming, British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband said on Saturday.
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China has been outspoken in its concern over possible carbon tariffs being imposed on exports, stating that the move would represent a breach of guidelines put in place by the World Trade Organization.
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Paul Krugman’s trip through China scared the free trade right out of him:
China cannot continue along its current path because the planet can’t handle the strain […] It is unfair to expect China to live within constraints that we didn’t have to face when our own economy was on its way up.
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