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How the United States Can Lead the Effort To Reduce Carbon Emissions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2021

Simon Lester
Simon Lester*
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World Trade Review , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 2022 , pp. 121 - 126
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1 See, e.g., Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: ‘Today, no nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis. We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be called existential. The climate crisis does. #EarthDay2021.’ Twitter, 22 April 2021, https://twitter.com/SecDef/status/1385332137805688836.

2 Tucker and Meyer (this issue).

3 Ibid.

4 Todd N. Tucker and Timothy Meyer, A Green Steel Deal: Toward Pro-Jobs, Pro-Climate Transatlantic Cooperation on Carbon Border Measures, Roosevelt Institute, June 2021, https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/RI_GreenSteelDeal_Working-Paper_202106-1.pdf.

5 Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser, ‘CO2 emissions’, https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions, accessed 28 June 2021.

6 Tucker and Meyer (this issue).

7 Ibid.

8 Scott Lincicome and Inu Manak, Protectionism or National Security? The Use and Abuse of Section 232, Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 912, 9 March 2021, www.cato.org/policy-analysis/protectionism-or-national-security-use-abuse-section-232.

9 Tucker and Meyer (this issue).

10 Scott Lincicome and Inu Manak, Protectionism or National Security? The Use and Abuse of Section 232, Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 912, 9 March 2021, www.cato.org/policy-analysis/protectionism-or-national-security-use-abuse-section-232.

11 For example, Senator Bernie Sanders claims that: ‘As President, Bernie Sanders Will Avert Climate Catastrophe and Create 20 Million Jobs.’ Along the same lines, he refers to: ‘Ending unemployment by creating 20 million jobs needed to solve the climate crisis’. Senator Bernie Sanders, the Green New Deal, https://berniesanders.com/issues/green-new-deal/.

12 Todd N. Tucker and Timothy Meyer, A Green Steel Deal: Toward Pro-Jobs, Pro-Climate Transatlantic Cooperation on Carbon Border Measures, Roosevelt Institute, June 2021, https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/RI_GreenSteelDeal_Working-Paper_202106-1.pdf, 23.

13 Appellate Body Report, European Communities – Measures Affecting Asbestos and Asbestos-Containing Products, WT/DS135/AB/R, adopted 5 April 2001, para. 100.

14 Simon Lester, ‘Is USTR Ready To Revisit Necessity Tests?’, International Economic Law and Policy Blog, 15 April 2021, https://ielp.worldtradelaw.net/2021/04/is-ustr-ready-to-revisit-necessity-tests.html, accessed 28 June 2021.

15 Tucker and Meyer (this issue)