French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a national “carbon tax” on global-warming pollutants and a European levy on imports from countries outside the Kyoto Protocol.
Sarkozy mentioned no names, but any such levy is bound to be targeted at imports from the United States and Australia, the only advanced economies that remain outside the UN‘s landmark pact on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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A summit billed as the last chance to revive global climate action faces unprecedented pressure from the food sector’s largest emitters.
Organisers offered pesticide giants and agribusiness lobby group “visibility” and “image gain” in return for financial contributions to climate summit's Agrizone.
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
