David Victor Quoted in Article for the New York Times
At Climate Talks, Trade Pressures Mount
12/18/2009
James Kantner,
New York Times
COPENHAGEN — Could a legacy of the Copenhagen climate conference turn out to be higher tariffs?
With little prospect of an agreement at the talks this week bringing immediate and binding emissions limits on the developing world, pressures are mounting in Europe and the United States to impose restrictions, called border adjustments, on imports from low-cost producers like China and India that are resisting cutting greenhouse gases.
“The shadow of border adjustments hangs over these talks,” said David G. Victor, a professor of international relations and an expert in environmental issues at the University of California at San Diego. “Unions and heavy industry are deeply worried about climate policies that could make them less competitive, especially with the Chinese, and nothing in Copenhagen will change that fact.”
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David Victor is director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, based at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
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