U.S. to Set Up Global Carbon Leakage Task Force

The U.S. federal government will create a special task force to deal with global carbon emissions from trade and manufacturing activities. The news came from John Podesta, the new U.S. climate envoy set to replace John Kerry. In a speech at an event at Columbia University, Podesta called global trade “an elephant in the room…one that’s producing a lot of emissions” and went on to say that governments needed to harness international economic systems for climate action. It was to this end that the Climate and Trade…