Experts Underscore Need For Climate Policy Comparison For Trade Efforts

International energy experts are underscoring the need to develop a method to compare climate mitigation policies in the U.S. with those in Europe and other countries to lay the groundwork for global carbon-related trade measures that encourage carbon emissions reductions in key industries. “Every time I talk to policymakers, they tell me the most important thing they need is to have some measure to assess equivalence” with other countries’ energy policies, said Michael Jakob, a senior fellow at the Ecologic...