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New EU carbon tax: wrong rate could wreck net-zero goals – but right rate can help world's poor

  • Written by David Comerford, Senior Lecturer of Economics and Behavioural Science, University of Stirling
New EU carbon tax: wrong rate could wreck net-zero goals – but right rate can help world's poorFactories like this one in Serbia will have to pay carbon duties to export to EU in future. Árpád Kiss, CC BY-SA

The European Commission is holding a meeting in June that is, on the face of it, very boring. The EU’s senior bureaucrats will be considering at what level to set a tax on carbon emissions for goods imported into the...