1st Carbon Border Tax is Coming. What It Means for the US

RFF scholars Jan Mares and Brian Flannery are quoted in an E&E News story about carbon border adjustments and their implications.

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Date

June 17, 2021

News Type

Media Highlight

Source

E&E News

"There also will be pushback from the communities, unions and industries concerned about the impacts such a policy could have on them, Mares said.

As to who would be most affected, 'the countries with stronger climate policies will get hurt if the countries with lesser climate policies are unresponsive to this proposal or push back on it,' said Flannery, who is working with Mares on border adjustment policies. 'If everybody agreed to go ahead in the same way, you could sort out the winners and the losers, but I don't think everybody is going to march to the same tune.'"

Topics

Climate and Trade

Related People

Jan Mares

Senior Advisor

Jan W. Mares is a Senior Advisor with RFF where he is involved with work on energy and environmental issues.

Brian P. Flannery

Visiting Fellow

Brian Flannery joined Resources for the Future as a visiting fellow in 2012. At RFF he continues involvement on climate and energy issues that began in 1980 when he joined Exxon’s Corporate Research Laboratory.

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