Showing posts with label Climate Change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Climate Change. Show all posts
Monday, March 21, 2011

China and the WTO: A Marriage Doomed to Fail?

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Last week the World Trade Organization, in particular China's membership in the global trade body, came under scrutiny from the anti-tra...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Wednesday Quick Hits

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I'm still digging out of cardboard boxes, so here are some headlines/links to keep you occupied until I'm fully functional again: I...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Center for American Progress, France Blindly Push for Carbon Tariffs

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The left-leaning Center for American Progress has issued a new paper calling for the implementation of a US-EU system of carbon tariffs.  ...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Senate Sponsors of New Climate Change Legislation Try - and Hilariously Fail - to Cover Carbon Tariffs' "Competitiveness" Tracks (UPDATED)

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Tomorrow, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) , Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) will unveil their long-awaited legislation to complet...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Monday Quick Hits

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A few noteworthy things on this busy Monday: Apparently, the United States' position in the TPP negotiations is lactose intolerant.   I...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Surprising (Almost) No One, Obama Reverses Stance and Announces Support for Carbon Tariffs

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National Review's Jim Geraghty has a long-running joke that all promises issued by President Obama come with an implicit expiration dat...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Piling on Krugman, and for Very Good Reason

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Last night, I discussed the disingenuousness of Paul Krugman's repeated assertions that nations' use of carbon tariffs under domest...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Senate Fans of Carbon Tariffs May Have Changed Their Tune, but the Song Still Stinks

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Given the current partisan makeup of the US Senate, any small group of Senators wields enormous influence over the legislative process.  Wi...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Carbon Tariffs Update: What Gaia Giveth, Gaia Taketh Away

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After a long hiatus, carbon tariffs - you remember, those pesky unilateral border taxes on imports from countries that have "insufficie...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

India Talking Tough on Carbon Tariffs, But Why Now?

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Interesting news out of New Delhi today on carbon tariffs: The [Indian] commerce department has begun mobilising opinion on the proposed c...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Paging Al Gore... Al Gore to the Green Courtesy Phone (UPDATE)

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Quite the Sunday morning for global warming skepticism in the foreign press: Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Carbon Tariffs Update: EU Meetings Produce Nothing; UN Deadline "Softens"

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The latest EU meeting of climate ministers produced no new mandates and demonstrated a logjam over emissions reductions targets and border m...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

A Good Day in the Fight against Green Protectionism

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Several positive developments today in our quest against protectionism masquerading in green clothing: (1) The EU's new trade chief so...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Sacre Bleu! French Carbon Tax is Unconstitutional

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Interesting news out of France today: France's Constitutional Council, the nation's highest constitutional authority, struck down ...
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