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EU’s Carbon Tax Will Only Bring Economic and Environmental Devastation

Ibrahim Özdemir | Newsweek | 08/03/2021

Last month, the EU announced a series of groundbreaking proposals aiming to combat climate change. Seeing as how Europe is enduring a summer of unprecedented weather-related deaths and disasters, the…

Making supply chains more resilient

Dalia Marin | Project Syndicate | 07/27/2021

The current global semiconductor shortage illustrates how geographic clustering o...

The European Union’s Carbon Border Mechanism and the WTO

Andre Sapir | Bruegel | 07/19/2021

According to the World Bank’s Carbon Pricing Dashboard, as of April ...

EU should consider trade impacts of new climate change mechanism

UNCTAD | 07/14/2021

The mechanism could help avoid “carbon leakage”, but its impact on climate ch...

A Proposal to Scale Up Global Carbon Pricing

Vitor Gaspar, Ian Parry | International Monetary Fund | 06/18/2021

Between one quarter and one half. That’s how much...

The G7: A New Dawn or More of the Same?

Jamie Shea | Friends of Europe | 06/17/2021

Summits take place all the time and normally deal with immediate crises or ar...

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