New German Leader Proposes "Climate Club" to Punish Free Riders Like Australia
March 2nd 2022
Friends of Science Extract from February 17, 2022
The new German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, wants the G7 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US and the UK) to become founding members of an international "climate club" to coordinate shared climate policy standards and impose costs on countries that don’t meet them. The chancellor made the proposal during a speech on January 19 to the World Economic Forum where he said: "We will use our Presidency of the G7 to turn that group into the nucleus of an International Climate Club. What we want to achieve is a paradigm shift in international climate policy: we will no longer wait for the slowest and least ambitious.
Australia, having promised to cut emissions by 26-28% compared to the G7's ~50%, is widely seen as a free-rider in rich-country climate efforts.
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The new German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, wants the G7 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US and the UK) to become founding members of an international "climate club" to coordinate shared climate policy standards and impose costs on countries that don’t meet them. The chancellor made the proposal during a speech on January 19 to the World Economic Forum where he said: "We will use our Presidency of the G7 to turn that group into the nucleus of an International Climate Club. What we want to achieve is a paradigm shift in international climate policy: we will no longer wait for the slowest and least ambitious.
Australia, having promised to cut emissions by 26-28% compared to the G7's ~50%, is widely seen as a free-rider in rich-country climate efforts.
Read more
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/06/new-german-leader-proposes-a-climate-club-of-leading-economies-that-would-punish-free-riders-like-australia/
Friends of Science
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