At Climate Talks, Trade Pressures Mount

The New York Times (Dec 17 2009) Construction , Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax

1. ould a legacy of the Copenhagen climate conference turn out to be higher tariffs? Living Story Global Warming Recent developments on the politics of global warming with background, analysis, timelines and earlier events from NYTimes.com and Google. Multimedia Interactive Feature Climate Change Conversations Graphic Who’s at the Climate Talks, and What Do They Seek? Interactive Feature Science and Politics of Climate Change Related Obama Has Goal to Wrest a Deal in Climate Talks (December 18, 2009) Times Topics: Copenhagen Climate Talks (UNFCCC) With little prospect of an agreement at the talks this week bringing immediate and binding emissions limits on the developing world, pressures are mounting in Europe and the United States to impose restrictions, called border adjustments, on imports from low-cost producers like China and India that are resisting cutting greenhouse gases. “The shadow of border adjustments hangs over these talks,” said David G. Victor, a professor ... (Read Full Article)

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