Posted on 01/25/2023 5:49:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — Efforts to mitigate climate change are prompting countries across the world to embrace dramatically different policies toward industry and trade, bringing governments into conflict.
These new clashes over climate policy are straining international alliances and the global trading system, hinting at a future in which policies aimed at staving off environmental catastrophe could also result in more frequent cross-border trade wars.
“The climate crisis requires economic transformation at a scale and speed humanity has never attempted in our 5,000 years of written history,” said Todd N. Tucker, the director of industrial policy and trade at the Roosevelt Institute, who is an advocate for some of the measures. “Unsurprisingly, a task of this magnitude will require a new policy tool kit.”
Proponents of new climate-focused trade measures say discriminating against foreign products, and goods made with greater carbon emissions, is exactly what governments need to build up clean energy industries and address climate change.
“You really do need to rethink some of the fundamentals of the system,” said Ilana Solomon, an independent trade consultant who previously worked with the Sierra Club.
Solomon and others have proposed a “climate peace clause,” under which governments would commit to refrain from using the World Trade Organization and other trade agreements to challenge one another’s climate policies for 10 years.
“The complete legitimacy of the global trading system has never been more in question,” she said.
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“The climate crisis...”
...I finished there.
There’s that word again, “transformation”. It’s an indicator to ignore the word’s user. “Sustainable”, “diversity”, “inclusion”, “equity” are among the other words that have become vague in their meaning, because leftist change their meaning and hide their true intentions.
Climate Change could bring Hitler back!
The erupting volcanoes must be controlled before any controls can be placed on Climate Change. Until volcanoes are controlled, Climate Change is a toss up allowing Admiral Kerry and Wanna Be President Gore to continue making millions chasing the Concept of climate change. As an example, the Tonga Volcano pumped est. 58 billion tons of ash and gas into the atmosphere on Jan 15, 2022 and climate changers never mention it. This volcanic eruption is effecting our wx now and will for time to come but climate changers never reference it as it was the worst volcano eruption in 1200 years and shook the entire planet.
Don’t worry - extraterrestrial Jean Kerre is on it.
May , Could etc etc , they’re looking into their Crystal Balls again ,LOL
As the warmageddonists keep getting more and more successful in limiting goods and service they categorize as evil, it increases demand for both the "clean" goods and well as goods sold on the black market. Trade wars don't happen with items of low demand.
Climate change won’t. But corruptocrat governments will.
By the time Biden and stooge crew are done there won’t be anything to trade except dirt ball for mud pies.
Nah! That will be determined by the location of semiconductor foundries.
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