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01 Oct 2019, 13:50
Julian Wettengel

Merkel's CDU examines border adjustment measures to avoid carbon leakage

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Germany's ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) want to examine 鈥渂order adjustment measures鈥 to avoid carbon leakage in case a global price on CO2 emissions cannot be agreed on quickly, the party leadership said . The CDU stopped short of explicitly calling for a carbon border tax, which European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen she plans to introduce. France has long called for such a tax and the French and German governments announced . A spokesperson this week said that before the German government would decide a position on such a tax 鈥渧arious questions of climate policy, trade policy, commercial law [and] practicability鈥 have to be addressed.

A carbon border tax is not mentioned in the climate action package approved by the federal government on 20 September. Chancellor Angela Merkel's so-called climate cabinet presented key points of a plan to reach 2030 climate targets, which include a pricing system for carbon emissions in transport and buildings, passage of a Climate Action Law and a package of measures in all sectors.

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