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EU puts green trade squeeze on developing world (FT)

Published 27 November 2023

Alan Beattie assesses how trade and aid, which ought to be helping to reduce emissions, aren’t well co-ordinated with climate policy particularly, the way the EU’s environmental trade tools may inadvertently be hurting low-income countries. He links to CITP Briefing paper focusing on the potential impact of CBAMs on Least Developed Countries and the Low/Lower Middle-Income Countries and how an exemption might be accommodated within the existing legal framework of the World Trade Organization.