Climate Changed

Trade Rules Emerge as Weapon to Fight Climate Change in Europe

  • Carbon border tax proposed by EU’s next environment chief
  • Idea may well be too politically controversial to work
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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The European Union is poised to bring trade policy into the fight against climate change, a move that risks stoking global commercial tensions.