🌐🌱 How can trade support Viet Nam’s #ClimateAdaptation goals? Last week in Hanoi, we co-hosted a workshop convening experts with diverse backgrounds to explore this question in the context of the agricultural sector. ➡️ Learn more about the event here: www.iisd.org/events/trade...

We are live ! The 2025 Green Trade Day organised by the #GreenTradeNetwork and the @ieep.eu is on ! With our panelists. @carolyndeere.bsky.social, @ibarsauskaite.bsky.social, @davidkleimann.bsky.social, @mwgehring.bsky.social, @mathildedupre.bsky.social, @chantalline.bsky.social and more.

The Green Trade day dives from multilateral to bilateral partnerships with an excellent outlook of climate provisions in #FTAs and the solutions beyond them by @mwgehring.bsky.social. @ieep.eu

Such a pleasure to join the Green Trade Day organized by @ieep.eu to talk about #EU #CBAM #US and the future of greener multilateral trading system. @antoine-oger.bsky.social @pierreleturcq.bsky.social

Markus W. Gehring@mwgehring.bsky.social · 2y ago

The EU’s climate related trade regulation has had a significant impact on climate measures globally - CBAM has been controversial but also impactful says @iisd.org’s @ibarsauskaite.bsky.social #GreenTradeDay @ieep.eu

#GreenTradeDay @ieep.eu Panel I: Navigating Trade Tensions and Climate Priorities with @carolyndeere.bsky.social @davidkleimann.bsky.social @elysander.bsky.social @ibarsauskaite.bsky.social chair Emilie Kerstens @odi-trade.bsky.social @iisd.org @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @tessforum.bsky.social

The EU’s climate related trade regulation has had a significant impact on climate measures globally - CBAM has been controversial but also impactful says @iisd.org’s @ibarsauskaite.bsky.social #GreenTradeDay @ieep.eu

We are launching a major independent review of the state of UK trade policy. The aim is to provide an impartial, comprehensive overview of UK trade policy. Let us know what you think trade policy should do by responding to our consultation by 7th Feb 2025 👉 citp.ac.uk/uktpr

📢 NEW REPORT! As countries adopt carbon pricing to meet the #ParisAgreement, they might be at risk of #carbonleakage – emissions shifting to nations with lower climate ambition. Some countries have set up various mechanisms in response to this issue 🌎 🔎 www.iisd.org/articles/dee... [1/6]

Off to Busan for the last round of #Plasticstreaty negotiations. Weather seems to be matching the general mood - a lot of uncertainty about what we will have on the table on 1 December and a lot of turbulences expected along the way. #INC5 #plasticpollution

#ACCTS are out! www.admin.ch/gov/en/start... Can’t wait to read list through the texts!! 🧐🧐🧐 FFSR looks very promising!

Bob Lighthizer may be back as US Trade Rep., although the job could still end up going to someone like his former Chief of Staff Jamieson Greer: "Donald Trump asks arch protectionist Robert Lighthizer to run US trade policy"

Donald Trump asks arch protectionist Robert Lighthizer to run US trade policy

Tariff hawk's potential reappointment to top economy role likely to alarm trading partners

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Hi new and old friends! Thanks for following @coppetainpu.bsky.social ‘s rabbit hole to my 🏔️ cave! This fills me with new hope for social media and expert community! If you have not yet done so - follow @alicetipping.bsky.social! And enjoy the pic of my boat ride home! #swisspublictransport

Everything you ever wanted to know about border carbon adjustment in under 7 minutes. I asked the production company to give me hair, but apparently there wasn't enough money in the contract. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnqK...

Understanding Border Carbon Adjustments (BCAs)

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Wow! Such an💥 in new community members! Welcome! To those of you who’ve been absorbed by US #elections lately, let me bring you back to the discussions on #trade and #climate ambition with our own @aaroncosbey.bsky.social and his new 6’49’’ BCA hit 🎬 #COP29anyone? youtu.be/XnqKqxer-nw?...

Understanding Border Carbon Adjustments (BCAs)

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Looks like there's been another massive migration to Bluesky. I wonder why. Welcome new followers. In case you're interested in trade and related issues, here are some people you might like to follow. go.bsky.app/5ULcGGU

On the second day of Christmas, my EU love gave to me CBAM default values, And a partridge in a pear tree. taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/news/commiss...

Commission publishes default values for determining embedded emissions during the CBAM transitional ...

Commission publishes default values for determining embedded emissions during the CBAM transitional period and updated guidance on reporting obligations

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My opinionated analysis of the US Foreign Pollution Fee Act - the recent legislative proposal for a US CBAM (but without the carbon price): bit.ly/3Nafxfb

The Proposed Foreign Pollution Fee Act

This analysis delves into the Foreign Pollution Fee Act, expressing concerns about its complexity, excessive discretionary power, and a perceived emphasis on geopolitics over global climate protection...

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At IISD we’ve done an enormous amount of work on the world of multiple #CBAM . Now that they are becoming of traders’ reality, it’s time for the governments to work together. Alice Tipping and I put the pen on the paper: www.iisd.org/publications... 1/2

Border Carbon Adjustments: Priorities for international cooperation

This IISD policy brief looks into border carbon adjustment design elements that are priorities for international cooperation, as well as the possible venues, formats, and shapes that such a discussion...

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Rapporteur@euractiv.com · 3y ago

UK to implement carbon tariff by 2027, mirroring EU scheme

The UK is moving closer to adopting its own version of a border carbon adjustment mechanism (CBAM). This would make it the first non-EU ETS country to adopt one - see this new consultation document including the UK Gov responses. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Addressing carbon leakage risk to support decarbonisation

The UK government is consulting on a range of potential policy measures to mitigate future carbon leakage risk.

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UK to implement carbon tariff by 2027, mirroring EU scheme

UK to implement carbon tariff by 2027, mirroring EU scheme

Britain said on Monday (18 December) it would implement a new import carbon pricing mechanism by 2027, with goods imported from countries with a lower or no carbon price having to pay a levy as part of decarbonisation efforts.

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