{"id":423206,"date":"2021-06-30T08:37:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T03:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423206"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:10:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T03:40:40","slug":"india-says-will-oppose-regressive-proposal-by-rich-nations-on-carbon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-says-will-oppose-regressive-proposal-by-rich-nations-on-carbon-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"India says will oppose &#8216;regressive proposal&#8217; by rich nations on carbon tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India and other developing nations will oppose plans by the European Union and the US to penalize imports of carbon-intensive goods to curb emissions at the global climate summit to be held in Glasgow this November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the most regressive proposal\u201d with \u201cno principle of equity adhered to,\u201d Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told Bloomberg New Energy Finance\u2019s Vandana Gombar at the BNEF Summit held virtually on Tuesday. \u201cThis is unfair taxation, nobody will accept it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>India will instead seek more action from European nations and the US, which have not kept their commitments on reducing emissions, Javadekar said. US President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is considering a so-called border adjustment tariff to be levied on certain carbon-intensive goods imported from countries with lax climate controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and other developing nations will oppose plans by the European Union and the US to penalize imports of carbon-intensive goods to curb emissions at the global climate summit to be held in Glasgow this November. \u201cIt is the most regressive proposal\u201d with \u201cno principle of equity adhered to,\u201d Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told Bloomberg New Energy Finance\u2019s Vandana Gombar at the BNEF Summit held virtually on Tuesday. \u201cThis is unfair taxation, nobody will accept it.\u201d India will instead seek more action from European nations and the US, which have not kept their commitments on reducing emissions, Javadekar said. US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}