It’s Time for a Climate Trade War

In the fall of 2016, and the global climate community was in turmoil. The world’s largest historical emitter of greenhouse gas emissions, the United States, would soon have a climate denying President who had made promises to dramatically cut back on the climate actions of his predecessor, Barack Obama. A year after the world had agreed to a historic climate agreement, it was looking like the country most important for its success might, soon, depart, and could, potentially, doom the planet to climate catastrophe.

It's time for global climate trade war.

Unless, of course, the world did something about it. In the weeks after Donald Trump was elected, there were statements from world leaders that if the incoming President were to follow through on his climate commitments, the world could react by implementing retaliatory measures, such as a border tax. In fact, these stories got much attention in global media from November 2016 through the inauguration.

Read the story from Medium by Nithin Coca - “It’s Time for a Climate Trade War.”