{"id":8739,"date":"2011-12-08T14:24:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/trade-war-looms-a-kyoto-protocol-fails\/"},"modified":"2011-12-08T14:24:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:24:32","slug":"trade-war-looms-a-kyoto-protocol-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/08\/trade-war-looms-a-kyoto-protocol-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade War Looms A Kyoto Protocol Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/4262alan_oxley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34089\" title=\"alan_oxley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/4262alan_oxley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alan Oxley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A global trade expert has warned that there could be a trade war in which the EU could become the major loser if the imminent failure of the Kyoto Protocol drives it to expand the usage of climate change trade barriers.\u00a0<br \/>Ambassador Alan Oxley, who is the World Growth Chairman and a former Ambassador as well as Chairman of the GATT said, <em>\u201cNow it is clear the Kyoto Protocol has failed, we should expect environmental NGOs to demand green trade barriers against imports from those who would not make the cuts proposed in the Protocol.\u00a0 Instead of winding EU measures back, European environmental officials are likely to insist the EU impose more green trade barriers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He was speaking at<\/em> a <a href=\"http:\/\/click.icptrack.com\/icp\/relay.php?r=15481878&#038;msgid=724464&#038;act=PM09&#038;c=166393&#038;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ictsdclimate.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special seminar on Trade and Climate Change in Durban<\/a> hosted by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), South African Department of Trade and Industry and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD).<\/p>\n<p>At the seminar, World Growth, an international non-governmental organization established to expand the research, information, advocacy, and other resources to improve the economic conditions and living standards in developing and transitional countries released a new report entitled, \u00a0<em>\u201cAvoiding Green Protectionism.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It noted that officials and negotiators would not need to resort to growth-sapping unilateral trade barriers if they adopt appropriate measures.<br \/><em>\u201cUnilateral trade barriers like this simply invite retaliation against EU exports and the EU would be the biggest loser.\u00a0 I could not imagine the Trade Directorate of the European Commission relishing\u00a0a trade war with<\/em> India<em>,<\/em> China<em>,<\/em> Canada<em>, the US and developing countries,\u201d he stated.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Oxley said \u201cy<em>et European governments have shown themselves to be swayed by environmental ideologues that don\u2019t care about such things.\u00a0 Others are anticipating this.\u00a0 India has already foreshadowed a resolution for the<\/em> <em>Durban<\/em> <em>meeting to proscribe such measures.\u00a0 Along with China and the US, India has already objected to the EU plan to impose carbon penalties on airlines that did not have controls on emissions comparable to the EUs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out that airline carbon taxes are not the first EU carbon trade barrier. The EU is already imposing restrictions on imports of biofuels and now timber products.\u00a0<br \/>Other members of the WTO, namely Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia and the United States, have already complained about discriminatory EU restrictions on biofuel imports, noted Ambassador Oxley.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd now <a href=\"http:\/\/click.icptrack.com\/icp\/relay.php?r=15481878&#038;msgid=724464&#038;act=PM09&#038;c=166393&#038;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edmontonjournal.com%2Fbusiness%2Ffuel%2Bdirective%2Bdiscriminatory%2Bdeceitful%2Bsham%2F5794507%2Fstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canada\u2019s former Ambassador to the WTO, John Weekes<\/a>, has called for Canada to file a legal complaint against the EU\u2019s Fuel Quality Directive on similar grounds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe decade of campaigning for the Kyoto Protocol emboldened environmental groups like Greenpeace and WWF to push for anti-dumping penalties to restrict imports of timber products and now biofuels, such as palm oil.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador noted that <em>\u201cthe illegal logging trade bans are ugly, blunt tools and the wrong response \u2013 the incidence of illegal logging worldwide is small and declining.\u00a0 These bans are being promoted by Green groups as part of their global campaign to restrict commercial forestry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe resort to Green Protectionism is as futile as the effort to secure global support for the cut in emissions mandated in the Kyoto Protocol.\u00a0 If environmental officials had paid attention to this simple fact when the Protocol was negotiated, there might today be on the table the<\/em> basis for global agreement to reduce emissions which most countries could support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<strong>By Emelia Ennin Abbey<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Alan Oxley A global trade expert has warned that there could be a trade war in which the EU could become the major loser if the imminent failure of the Kyoto Protocol drives it to expand the usage of climate change trade barriers.\u00a0 Ambassador Alan Oxley, who is the World Growth Chairman and a former Ambassador as well as Chairman of the GATT said, \u201cNow it is clear the Kyoto Protocol has failed, we should expect environmental NGOs to demand green trade barriers against imports from those who would not make the cuts proposed in the Protocol.\u00a0 Instead of winding EU measures back, European environmental officials are likely to insist the EU impose more green trade barriers.\u201d He was speaking at a special seminar on Trade and Climate Change in Durban hosted by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), South African Department of Trade and Industry and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). At the seminar, World Growth, an international non-governmental organization established to expand the research, information, advocacy, and other resources to improve the economic conditions and living standards in developing and transitional countries released a new report entitled, \u00a0 \u201cAvoiding Green Protectionism.\u201d It noted that officials and negotiators would not need to resort to growth-sapping unilateral trade barriers if they adopt appropriate measures. \u201cUnilateral trade barriers like this simply invite retaliation against EU exports and the EU would be the biggest loser.\u00a0 I could not imagine the Trade Directorate of the European Commission relishing\u00a0a trade war with India , China , Canada , the US and developing countries,\u201d he stated.\u00a0 Ambassador Oxley said \u201cy et European governments have shown themselves to be swayed by environmental ideologues that don\u2019t care about such things.\u00a0 Others are anticipating this.\u00a0 India has already foreshadowed a resolution for the Durban meeting to proscribe such measures.\u00a0 Along with China and the US, India has already objected to the EU plan to impose carbon penalties on airlines that did not have controls on emissions comparable to the EUs.\u201d He also pointed out that airline carbon taxes are not the first EU carbon trade barrier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trade War Looms A Kyoto Protocol Fails - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/08\/trade-war-looms-a-kyoto-protocol-fails\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Trade War Looms A Kyoto Protocol Fails - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Alan Oxley A global trade expert has warned that there could be a trade war in which the EU could become the major loser if the imminent failure of the Kyoto Protocol drives it to expand the usage of climate change trade barriers.\u00a0 Ambassador Alan Oxley, who is the World Growth Chairman and a former Ambassador as well as Chairman of the GATT said, \u201cNow it is clear the Kyoto Protocol has failed, we should expect environmental NGOs to demand green trade barriers against imports from those who would not make the cuts proposed in the Protocol.\u00a0 Instead of winding EU measures back, European environmental officials are likely to insist the EU impose more green trade barriers.\u201d He was speaking at a special seminar on Trade and Climate Change in Durban hosted by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), South African Department of Trade and Industry and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). 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