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Re:Climate Target Update Tracker by dafrie on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:07PM (#22172177)
This is actually a main proposal by William Nordhaus [1], who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics on climate change modelling! TLDR: So called climate clubs (or "reasonable countries") would punish countries that are not meeting the clubs rules (i.e. a carbon tax of a certain level) by levying tariffs.

[1] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.15000001

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Re:Climate Target Update Tracker by thepangolino on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:57PM (#22172813)
Wouldn't this cause a reaction forming opposing clubs that don't abide by those rules therefore gaining a competitive advantage?
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Re:Climate Target Update Tracker by virgilp on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:02PM (#22173486)
So under this model, Gambia & Morocco would be punishing USA, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Vietnam and Ukraine?
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