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The Concord Coalition | May 24, 2023

Facing the Future: Border Carbon Adjustments Gain Bipartisan Attention In Congress

This week on Facing the Future, a welcome respite from talk of the debt ceiling crisis to focus on an interesting legislative concept getting considerable... Read More

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May 17, 2023

Counting Carbon: Voluntary and Mandatory Emissions Reporting Programs

Governments around the world are developing policies to address the “carbon loophole” by differentiating between internationally traded products based on their carbon intensity. While... Read More

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May 2, 2023

Why Charge Imports for their Carbon Emissions?

Over the past two years, U.S. lawmakers have expressed growing interest in border carbon adjustments (BCA), pollution import fees, and new trade deals to... Read More

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Roll Call | April 12, 2023

As European tax looms, a border fee draws bipartisan focus

On both sides of Capitol Hill, there is budding interest in implementing taxes on carbon-intensive goods that enter the U.S., though Democrats and Republicans... Read More

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March 27, 2023

Getting Ahead of the Curve: Primer on Border Carbon Adjustment Policy Proposals

The past two years have seen rapid development of climate and trade policy, including the announcements of an EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM),... Read More

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March 20, 2023

Are Tariff Rates on Energy-Intensive Trade-Exposed (EITE) Goods Contributing to the Carbon Loophole?

Climate change, supply chain issues, and geopolitical concerns are sparking new questions about the status quo of trade policies. To meaningfully address these challenges,... Read More

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Axios | March 16, 2023

Carbon tariff talks start

A bipartisan group of senators and staffers met with NGOs on Thursday morning to talk about carbon tariffs. The discussions are nascent, but the... Read More

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RepublicEn | February 14, 2023

EcoRight Speaks, season six, episode two: Catrina Rorke

Catrina Rorke, the executive director of the Center for Climate and Trade, joins RepublicEn's EcoRight Speaks. Last year, she came on the show to talk... Read More

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February 9, 2023

Carbon Pricing in the Shipping Industry

Emissions from international shipping have climbed rapidly over the last decade and could account for more than 17% of global emissions by 2050. Yet... Read More

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Penta | January 18, 2023

Closing the carbon loophole with the Climate Leadership Council

Council CEO Greg Bertelsen and Senior Vice President of Policy and Research Catrina Rorke joined Penta’s What’s at Stake podcast to discuss some of the Council’s... Read More

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December 22, 2022

Opportunities for US-EU Steel Trade Agreement

The United States and the European Union announced on 31st October 2021 a re-establishment of transatlantic trade flows in steel and aluminum. Both parties... Read More

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November 30, 2022

The Climate Club: Creating a More Effective Arena for Climate Mitigation

In November, COP27 culminated with international agreement to form a new “Loss and Damage” Fund, in which developed countries would compensate developing countries for... Read More

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November 28, 2022

Next Step After COP: Plugging the Carbon Loophole

At the U.N.’s COP27 climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt earlier this month, world leaders met to discuss and debate various proposals to minimize... Read More

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November 15, 2022

Embodied Carbon in Trade: Carbon Loophole

There is an 8-billion-ton hole in how advanced countries like the United States think about addressing climate change. It’s equal to one and a... Read More

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November 10, 2022

Transatlantic Climate and Trade Relations: Conflict or Cooperation?

The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, with its $369 billion commitment to addressing climate change, has been described as the... Read More

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September 27, 2022

New Study Highlights Carbon Advantage of U.S. Chemicals Industry

The chemicals industry can play a pivotal role in decarbonizing the global economy. Chemical products serve as ingredients in the fuels and technologies that... Read More

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September 27, 2022

Why Does America Have a Carbon Advantage?

The United States is one of the world’s most carbon efficient economies, producing goods with far less emissions than almost any other economy. This... Read More

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September 13, 2022

The U.S. Carbon Advantage in Chemicals Manufacturing

The United States chemicals manufacturing industry has a distinct carbon efficiency advantage compared to other major producing countries. This conclusion is supported a new... Read More

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August 1, 2022

Assessing Impacts to U.S. Industry from the EU’s Proposed CBAM 

We at the Council analyzed the impact of a European Union plan to charge certain carbon-intensive goods for the emissions released during their production. Though the... Read More

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RealClearEnergy | July 7, 2022

A Carbon Border Fee Could Unify Conservatives (and Progressives, Too)

With climate stakeholders scrambling in the wake of the Supreme Court decision on West Virginia v. EPA at the end of the session, the... Read More

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Climate Leadership Council | July 6, 2022

Climate Leadership Council Welcomes International Law Expert Matthew Porterfield to Policy and Research Team

Porterfield Adds New Depth to Council’s Emergent Center for Climate and Trade WASHINGTON, DC – The Climate Leadership Council announced today that international trade...

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June 24, 2022

European Parliament Passes CBAM

The European Parliament approved a plan this week to charge some imports for their emissions in a big step towards harmonizing climate and trade in one... Read More

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E&E News | June 16, 2022

Carbon tariffs are coming. Here’s how the U.S. is preparing

The world’s first carbon border fee was always expected to roil nations that export their emissions through polluting goods. Now it could go further... Read More

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June 15, 2022

What Industries Import the Most Emissions to the U.S.?

Where and how goods are made has a huge impact on how much carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere during their manufacture. Most... Read More

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June 6, 2022

A Border Adjustment Would Promote U.S. Energy Security and Weaken Russia

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent the West searching for tools to weaken Vladimir Putin and deter Russian aggression. There’s a way to neutralize... Read More

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June 2, 2022

Next Up for Carbon Accounting: ‘Cradle-to-Border’ Emissions

Border carbon adjustments are gaining momentum in Washington as a way to reward trade in low-carbon goods and boost clean, U.S. manufacturers. To implement... Read More

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June 2, 2022

The G7 + Climate Club: A Path to Global Decarbonization

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz On May 20, the Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers and central bank governors released a communique stating their intent to explore... Read More

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Office of Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) | May 26, 2022

Sen. Cramer Participates in a Conversation with the Climate Leadership Council

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E&E News | May 26, 2022

This GOP Senator Wants to Be in a Global Climate Club

…The role of trade in climate policy has recently gained traction among a small group of Republican senators, who argue that carbon border fees... Read More

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U.S. Department of Treasury | May 20, 2022

G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting Communiqué

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May 18, 2022

Biden Admin to Aim High on Climate-Trade Deals

The Center for Climate and Trade hosted its first in-person event last week, and if we had to pick one takeaway from the discussion... Read More

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Inside U.S. Trade | May 11, 2022

USTR’s Peisch: Emissions-Focused Trade Tools Could Drive ‘Race to the Top’

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative believes trade tools offer significant untapped potential for reducing global emissions and plans to address such measures... Read More

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May 10, 2022

The Case for Climate and Trade

As major developed economies continue to decarbonize at home, they import huge amounts of carbon in the form of goods manufactured in carbon-intensive countries... Read More

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April 29, 2022

Why We Should Leverage U.S. Solar’s Carbon Advantage

Worldwide solar capacity has increased over two thousand-fold in the last 20 years to more than 700 gigawatts, putting solar power at the center... Read More

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April 6, 2022

Emissions from Imports: An Untapped Opportunity for Decarbonization

When we tally a country’s carbon emissions, we typically consider only those emissions generated within its borders. But this approach misses an important dynamic... Read More

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March 22, 2022

We Have the Data We Need to Track Emissions in Global Trade

As the idea of using trade mechanisms to reduce climate emissions gains steam around the world, a common claim is that companies lack the... Read More

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Foreign Policy | December 23, 2021

Use Climate and Trade Policy to Counter Putin’s Playbook

... We have an opportunity to counter Putin’s playbook with a bold initiative consistent with European priorities: a transatlantic climate and trade initiative that... Read More

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Financial Times | November 3, 2021

A green deal to cull Trump-era metals tariffs

Another week passes, and another Trump-era trade irritant between the US and EU has been partially resolved. This time it’s the 2018 steel and... Read More

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Wall Street Journal | November 2, 2021

Tariffs to Tackle Climate Change Gain Momentum. The Idea Could Reshape Industries.

Governments in the U.S., Europe and other developed nations are embarking on a climate-change experiment: using tariffs on trade to cut carbon emissions. The idea has... Read More

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Wall Street Journal | October 30, 2021

At G-20 Summit, U.S. Agrees to Relax Tariffs on European Steel

The U.S. and the European Union have reached a deal to ease U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports that date to former President Donald... Read More

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Washington Examiner | October 27, 2021

New Polling Shows GOP Support for BCA

The Climate Leadership Council, a GOP-backed group supporting a carbon tax that returns the revenue to taxpayers, is out with polling this morning showing... Read More

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October 26, 2021

Don't Believe the Hype: A BCA Is Doable (and We're Doing Most of It Already)

Early opposition to border carbon adjustments has described the policy as too complex to design, too burdensome on companies and on government, and too... Read More

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May 25, 2021

US Steel Industry: Leveraging A Carbon Advantage

The Climate Leadership Council commissioned CRU International Ltd., a global commodity markets intelligence firm, to study the impact of its carbon dividends plan on... Read More

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September 12, 2020

America’s Carbon Advantage

A first-of-its-kind study underscores America’s striking carbon efficiency advantage over its key trading partners. Read More

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September 12, 2020

America's Carbon Advantage One-Pager

U.S. manufacturers across industries are highly carbon efficient compared to most of their key trading partners. As a result, America makes goods with far... Read More

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