The U.S. federal government will create a special task force to deal with global carbon emissions from trade and manufacturing activities. The news came from John Podesta, the new U.S. climate envoy set to replace John Kerry. In a speech at an event at Columbia University, Podesta called global trade “an elephant in the room…one that’s producing a lot of emissions” and went on to say that governments needed to harness international economic systems for climate action.
What Podesta called “carbon dumping” will also be a focus area for the new entity—when goods produced in a country with laxer emission restrictions end up exported to a country with more stringent climate rules. By way of illustration, Podesta said “Today, over half of the world’s aluminum is made in China, where the average ton of aluminum produces 60% more emissions than it does in the U.S.
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