{"id":425104,"date":"2021-07-09T08:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T03:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=425104"},"modified":"2021-07-09T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T04:52:56","slug":"explained-why-india-is-protesting-eus-discriminatory-carbon-border-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/explained-why-india-is-protesting-eus-discriminatory-carbon-border-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Why India is protesting EU&#8217;s &#8216;discriminatory&#8217; carbon border tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Indian environment minister Prakash Javadekar opposed the European Union&#8217;s (EU) plan to levy an additional &#8216;carbon border tax&#8217; on imports from countries such as India that do not have strict norms for controlling industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on March 10, 2021, the EU Parliament had adopted a resolution to implement a &#8216;Carbon Border Adjusted Mechanism&#8217; (CBAM), a June 2021 draft regulation pertaining to which proposed that goods entering the EU would be taxed at the borders. Such a tax would promote &#8220;low-carbon, resource-efficient manufacturing&#8221;, the resolution says. The UK and the US are also considering such proposals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Indian environment minister Prakash Javadekar opposed the European Union&#8217;s (EU) plan to levy an additional &#8216;carbon border tax&#8217; on imports from countries such as India that do not have strict norms for controlling industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Earlier, on March 10, 2021, the EU Parliament had adopted a resolution to implement a &#8216;Carbon Border Adjusted Mechanism&#8217; (CBAM), a June 2021 draft regulation pertaining to which proposed that goods entering the EU would be taxed at the borders. Such a tax would promote &#8220;low-carbon, resource-efficient manufacturing&#8221;, the resolution says. The UK and the US are also considering such [&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-425104","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\/425104","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=425104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}