WUWT
Like many developing economies, India faces coercion from the United Nations and Europe to conform to climate policies, especially through the imposition of carbon taxes on imports into their countries. But Delhi is not about to bend to such tactics.
“If they (EU and U.K.) put in a carbon tax, we’ll retaliate,” said India’s Union Minister Piyush Goya at the Columbia India Energy Dialogue in New York City. “I think it will be very silly, particularly to put a tax on friendly countries like India.”
That isn’t a bluff. It’s a moral, strategic and scientific imperative grounded in realpolitik and economic logic.
India and the U.K. have inked a trade deal that promises to boost bilateral trade by more than $33 billion and increase U.K. gross domestic product and wages by many billions.
On paper, this deal is a triumph for both nations, removing duties on 99% of Indian goods entering the U.K. For India, this means greater market access for textiles, agriculture and manufactured goods – sectors that employ millions and drive economic growth.
Yet, the U.K.’s pending Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) remains in place, with no exemptions for Indian steel, cement and aluminum, despite the trade agreement. more
Cuz they know it weakens the nation… as does China.
That’s why they’re using it as a tool to beat us down with! It’s no coinky dink that everything the Left is for is sanctioned by China because it weakens the West!
The same people calling for being carbonless are the same people calling for unilateral disarmament in the 60s-80s. Just watermelons: green on the outside and red on the inside.
That and the prima facie lie of “we’re gonna boost trade AND jobs at home with this deal.” Well, the Hindus are known to consider cows sacred, maybe it applies to bullshit too.