Canada’s Environment Minister to Speak Against U.S. Green Tariff Proposal

(CBC News)

Canada’s environment minister was to tell an American business organization that tariffs shouldn’t be imposed on imports from countries that allow greater greenhouse-gas emissions than the United States.

“Trade protectionism in the name of environmental protection would be a prescription for disaster for both the global economy and the global environment,” says an advance copy of Jim Prentice’s speech to the Council of the Americas. “And the threat of such unilateral action is a threat to global progress at this critical time in multilateral negotiations.” Prentice was speaking to the business group Wednesday in Washington.

The U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill in March proposing hard caps on emissions as well as tariffs on imports from countries with more lax greenhouse-gas rules that the United States. Read more here.