4月8日，美国参议员比尔·卡西迪（R-LA）和林赛·格雷厄姆（R-SC）介绍了他们最新版本的《外国污染费法案》（FPFA）。该法案对某些工业部门的进口商品征收关税，与在国外生产商品时排放的碳成比例。该法案的共同提案国将其作为为美国制造业创造公平竞争环境的一种方式，在许多工业部门，美国制造业的碳密集度低于其贸易国家的生产。正如参议员卡西迪在法案发布中指出的那样，“其他国家可以通过不执行我们认为理所当然的法律来降低20%的制造成本。这意味着他们也夺走了我们的工作。这是错误的。”参议员格雷厄姆补充说，“世界上的污染者，如中国和其他国家，早就应该为他们的政策付出代价了。[…]我们正在创造公平的竞争环境，美国制造商和企业将是最大的受益者。”
我们研究了目前欧盟和英国正在实施的碳边界调整机制（CBAM）政策。政策讨论提到了三个动机和一个担忧。cbam可以提高受监管市场的国内竞争力，减少排放泄漏到不受监管的市场，并鼓励其他国家征收碳税。但cbam可能尤其不利于低收入的贸易伙伴。我们用定量平衡模型和全球铝和钢生产的工厂级数据来评估这些力。我们的数据涵盖了欧盟和英国实施的第一阶段所针对的排放密集型和贸易密集型行业。我们发现，cbam可以有效提高竞争力，遏制泄漏，鼓励监管，同时也避免对低收入国家产生不成比例的影响。
本报告审查了国家和区域为加强和实施气候目标所做的努力，以及IRENA通过其各种工作包（包括与国家自主贡献有关的工作包）提供的相关支持
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Despite an unprecedented acceleration in renewable energy deployment in 2023, progress falls short to triple renewables by 2030. Current national plans and targets are set to deliver only half of the required growth in renewable power by 2030.
Current global investment not only suffers from significant disparities between advanced economies and emerging markets and developing economies but also with group of EMDEs, new IRENA reports commissioned by Brazil’s G20 presidency find.
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