EU-China carbon talks get serious

8 Jun 2012

Meetings between EU and Chinese officials aimed at helping Beijing to draft plans for its own carbon emissions market are “increasing in intensity,” says the union’s chief climate negotiator, Artur Runge-Metzger.


The EU and China are involved in a high-stakes game of brinkmanship over the inclusion of international airlines within the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme, with Brussels saying that it would exempt Beijing, if it implements an equivalent scheme of its own.


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