Full Title: Understanding America’s Carbon Advantage and Identifying Strategic Goals for a Bipartisan Approach to U.S. Climate & Trade Policy
Author(s): George David Banks
Publisher(s): Bipartisan Policy Center
Publication Date: February 9, 2022
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Description (excerpt):
Despite prior disagreements on climate policy, the current global emissions trajectory leaves room for Democrats and Republicans to come together to develop a new climate strategy anchored in commerce and geopolitics. Merging U.S. climate and trade policy in concert with America’s allies would create market leverage that would accelerate private sector investment in low carbon technologies and push China and major developing country emitters to cut their emissions. An effective policy design would also help bring back key components of the supply chain to U.S. shores, bolster American manufacturing, and increase U.S. influence to check the ability of some countries to use energy as a political weapon.