“Climate protection: own goal?”
Handelsblatt
A global surge of trade restrictions and protectionism could derail Germany’s efforts in climate protection, Heinz Jürgen Schürmann writes in a commentary for Handelsblatt. “Global interconnection is indispensable for a successful limitation of CO2-emissions,” Schürmann writes. International management was needed to ensure that an appropriate and efficient price for the “usage of the formerly free good ‘atmosphere’” is found, he explains. Globally coordinated climate protection does not have to be an “illusion” if countries see gains from collaboration, and a CO2-price system encompassing important emitters is tested in the next years, Schürmann writes.
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