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Form a climate club: United States, European Union and China

If the three biggest economies agree a carbon tax on imports, it will catalyse climate action globally.
  1. Simone Tagliapietra

    1. Simone Tagliapietra is a research fellow at the economic think-tank Bruegel, Brussels, Belgium.

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  2. Guntram B. Wolff

    1. Guntram B. Wolff is director at the economic think-tank Bruegel, Brussels, Belgium.

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Joe Biden’s presidency of the United States is an opportunity to realize a long-discussed approach to global warming: a climate club. The United States, the European Union and China together emit half of the world’s greenhouse gases. They must come together to cut domestic emissions and levy a carbon tax on imports. That would incentivize all nations to cut their emissions.

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Nature 591, 526-528 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00736-2

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