{"id":3559,"date":"2016-11-15T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T07:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2016-11-15T13:18:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T12:18:22","slug":"the-costs-of-the-paris-agreement-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3559\/","title":{"rendered":"The Costs of the Paris Agreement Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a rather stunning admission by Nicolas Sarkozy in this BBC report<\/a> on the climate summit taking place in Morocco:<\/p>\n

Away from the conference the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been calling for a carbon tax on US goods if President Trump follows through on his promise to walk away from the Paris deal.<\/p>\n

“Donald Trump has said – we\u2019ll see if he keeps this promise – that he won\u2019t respect the conclusions of the Paris climate agreement,\u201d Mr Sarkozy, who is a candidate for next year’s French presidential elections, told the TF1 television channel on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I will demand that Europe put in place a carbon tax at its border, a tax of 1%-3%, for all products coming from the United States, if the United States doesn\u2019t apply environmental rules that we are imposing on our companies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it is confirmed, then: this Paris agreement will impose costs of 1-3% on European companies and, by extension, consumers. \u00a0Thank goodness we are all so fabulously well-off and European (especially French) companies so unburdened by deadweight costs that a 1-3% arbitrary increase in costs will go unnoticed!<\/p>\n

And retaliatory tariffs are always such a good idea, particularly if imposed because another country declines to regulate its own industries out of existence.<\/p>\n

Remind me why Britain voted to leave, again?<\/p>\n

This also amused:<\/p>\n

The Paris climate agreement will survive a Trump presidency says the US special envoy on climate change Dr Jonathan Pershing.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

US lead negotiator Dr Pershing told a packed news briefing that the passion and dedication displayed in the effort to deliver the Paris treaty was strong enough to withstand the impacts of Trump presidency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Passion and dedication? This Dr Pershing sounds like an England football manager explaining away their latest defeat. \u00a0He might be in for a rude awakening in a few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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