2019-09-04 Border carbon tariffs: giving up on trade to save the climate?

Henrik Horn, IFN,argues in World Commerce Review  that here is no ineherent conflict between climate preservation and safeguarding the multilateral trading system. But it provides that four conditions are met. It also provides that a unilateral decision by the EU to introduce BCAs can only be the counterpart of ambitious unilateral measures by the European Union to meet the objective of being climate neutral by 2050.