- The United States may be able to avoid European plans to slap tariffs on imports of polluting goods because it as adopted climate targets that are similar to the EU’s, the bloc’s climate policy chief said on Tuesday (20 September).
- The 27-country EU is negotiating a plan to introduce the world’s first carbon border levy from 2026, forcing companies importing into the bloc to pay carbon costs at the border on certain polluting products such as steel, cement and aluminium.
- The EU has committed to cut its net emissions 55% by 2030, from 1990 levels – which works out at a 51% reduction against 2005 levels.
US could dodge European carbon border levy, EU’s Timmermans says
