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How Europe's new carbon tax on imported goods will change global tradeโ€”and our shopping habits (phys.org)
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[โ€“] l_isqof@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Finally.

[โ€“] dudesss@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

I love this! Canada had a carbon tax (which was used as a universal basic income) where the citizens got almost all the money back except for a small percentage put towards climate change solutions, health care, and such.

Thank you Europe! You guys show again the progressive way the world needs to go. I will gladly continue to focus buying European.

[โ€“] Kjell@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

If goods come from countries with weaker climate rules, then the charge will be higher. To sell to the EU, producers will effectively need to show their goods aren't too carbon intensive.

The goal is to prevent companies from relocating their production to places with looser regulations, ensuring fair competition between EU and non-EU companies, while incentivizing global decarbonization.

This is so important. EU can't have too strict emission legislation unless they limit the import from other countries. As soon as this is in place, the import carbon tax only needs to be adjusted if the emission legislation is changed here which is much easier than adding a new tax.

[โ€“] kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

We will either pay now and less because of carbon tax, or later and more for repairing nature damages.

[โ€“] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Great! But we must always remember that this is an ongoing battle. Think of the combustion engine "ban". 2035 needed to be emission free, now it's only 90% that is a huge problem.