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Would 'carbon tariff' on solar panels solve EU-China trade spat?

2014-06-02 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: As European solar panel manufacturers battle against cheap modules produced in China, researchers in the US have called for the industry to set a "carbon tariff" that would push up the cost of products that fail to meet certain environmental standards. Scientists from Northwestern University in Illinois and the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory unveiled a study late last week which found solar panels produced in China have a carbon footprint that is almost twice the size of those...

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