Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/16/2009 4:42:07 PM PDT by mojito
Countries that buy Chinese goods should be held responsible for the carbon dioxide emitted by the factories that make them in any global plan to reduce greenhouse gases, a Chinese official said on Monday.
"About 15 percent to 25 percent of China's emissions come from the products which we make for the world, which should not be taken by us," said Gao Li, director of China's Department of Climate Change.
Speaking at a forum sponsored by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Gao added that "this share of emission should be taken by the consumers, not the producers" and called the demand a "very important item to make (for a) fair agreement."
Gao gave no further details of his proposal, which could nevertheless be controversial as countries like the United States already fear that controlling domestic emissions will lead to sharply higher energy prices and possible job losses.
China, like the United States, did not join the 17-year-old Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing global emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants linked to climate change problems.
With an economy that has been booming on its export of manufactured goods, China's greenhouse gas emissions also have been growing and are now thought to be around par with those in the United States, which has been the leading emitting nation.
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sure, the importers can pay for it by increasing the tarriff fees by say 100%. So everything that comes from China are very expensive for consumers to buy
Sure. Put a CO2e tariff on it.
Be careful what you ask for.
LOL — similar ideas.
that may be a problem in the WTO
Oh well. Don’t know about such...
Well, we can help them out.
Let’s pull back all that dirty manufacturing work and do it over here. We’ll suck it up and pay the price to clean up our old factories. At least the ones that haven’t been turned into Section 8 housing.
Why transfer all that wealth to inefficient industries?
Let’s just keep getting the Chinese to send us all their stuff in exchange for paper money. You can see the obvious benefit in that no?
Don’t let the Chinese Communists outsmart us (or our domestic ones on Pennsylvania Ave.).
As I see it, we now have a ready-made excuse to immediately boycott all Chinese goods: Sorry, the cost in carbon credits would be too high.
Communist China explaining to America how capitalism works. We live in wonderful times!
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