Posted on 07/27/2021 2:29:59 AM PDT by Libloather
When the European Union laid out the details of a measure to tax carbon at its borders earlier this month, all eyes turned across the Atlantic to see how the U.S. would respond. Would the Biden Administration, as it forges ahead with its own ambitious plans to reduce emissions in the U.S., take action to make sure foreign imports face the same climate costs as products made domestically?
American officials, so far, have sought to thread a needle on the sticky question, suggesting a carbon tax on imports to the U.S. as a distant possibility without seeming too enthusiastic about it.
In a July 22 interview, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry offered a key reason why the Administration has been slow to fully embrace the tactic: doing so might harm the ongoing multilateral efforts that the U.S. is engaged in to encourage other countries to strengthen their climate policies.
Since taking up the job as Biden’s climate envoy, Kerry has traveled the world with the stated mission of encouraging countries to commit to more ambitious climate mitigation measures. “It’s premature to be discussing whether or not you ought to unilaterally go off and do a CBAM,” Kerry told TIME on the sidelines of the G20 climate and energy ministers meeting in Naples, Italy, using an acronym for a carbon border adjustment mechanism.
“Right now, we’re pursuing multilateral efforts… We’re trying to bring people together; we don’t want to do something that pushes people away.” Still, Kerry noted that President Joe Biden has asked him “to fully evaluate all the consequences” of the European border carbon adjustment and added that “by evaluating the European one, we’re going to have a sense of what we might or might not embrace, if we ultimately felt that’s the right thing..."
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In what? Could've been done with a Zoom call.
He was probably using his zero-emission yacht. /s
The European Union has been pushing the idea of a “level playing field” for years.
American brands with Made in China stuff don’t want to pay any such ‘stinking’ tax.
Kerry wouldn’t want the Chinese, who rely heavily on coal, to cut Hunter off financially.
Seems like Kerry’s simply following the unwritten Democrat policy - which is that if carbon is emitted from non-Western countries, it doesn’t contribute to Global Warming.
After all, that MUST be their policy, since the above accounts for 75% of world carbon emissions today, and that percentage will only keep growing.
“Since taking up the job as Biden’s climate envoy, Kerry has traveled the world”
We just bet he has. In style.
SwiftBoat Rear Admiral John F’ing Kerry has an opinion about everything he knows nothing about.
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