EU's CBAM vs. the Paris Agreement: A response to Quick and Das
In a guest post, IISD's Aaron Cosbey writes: I am an unlikely defender of the EU’s CBAM, knowing full well its weaknesses and limitations. But in my opinion those faults do not include any of the arguments mustered against it by Reinhard Quick and Isha Das in their guest post “The EU’s CBAM-Regulation stands in contrast to fundamental EU-obligations under the Paris Agreement.”
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