In the new carbon tax of the EU, there are signs of the formation of barriers to trade, said in an interview with TASS head of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia Maxim Reshetnikov.
In the current embodiment of cross-border carbon regulation (tour), the minister sees signs of laying CO2 costs in the price of electricity imports to Europe. “If we really do not pursue the goal of cutting or trapping CO2, we will not prove in practice that this is our goal, then everything will be reduced to protectionism, closure of markets, cut-off technologies, to segregation,” – noted by the reshetnikov.
Central Asia, India, some countries of the Asia-Pacific region have not yet reached the peak of energy consumption and need cheap energy sources. Such economic measures of the European Union can make a gap between developed and developing countries insurmountable, the minister is sure.
In mid-July, the European Commission presented a new action plan to save ecology, including proposing to introduce cross-border carbon tax on the supply of certain products in the European Union, including metals, cement and fertilizers. Russian companies new fees can cost multi-billion losses.
It is estimated to be the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the size of the collection may be from 1.8 billion to 3.4 billion dollars in 2026, and by 2030 increase to 3.5-6.5 billion.