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
Blog Article
CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND TRADE
Resources
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
Report
Assessing Impacts to U.S. Industry from the EU’s Proposed CBAMÂ
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
Blog Article
Climate Leadership Council
|
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...
Statement
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
Blog Article
E&E News
|
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
News
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
Blog Article
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
Blog Article
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
Blog Article
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
Blog Article
E&E News
|
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
News
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
Blog Article
Inside U.S. Trade
|
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
News
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
Report
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
Blog Article
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
Blog Article
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
Blog Article
Foreign Policy
|
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
News
Financial Times
|
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
News
Wall Street Journal
|
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
News
Wall Street Journal
|
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
News
Washington Examiner
|
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
News
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
Report
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
Report
America’s Carbon Advantage
A first-of-its-kind study underscores America’s striking carbon efficiency advantage over its key trading partners. Read More
Report