UK may eventually need carbon border tax, George Eustice says
The UK may eventually need to implement a carbon dioxide border tax to stop consumers effectively exporting greenhouse gas emissions abroad, the environment secretary has said.
On Sunday, George Eustice insisted that he was not in favour of a domestic meat tax to help reduce global heating and that such a proposal had “never been on the cards”.
But, in an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr, he said that in the long term a CO2 border tax – a levy on imports related to the amount of CO2 generated by meat production – might be necessary because otherwise emission trading schemes would not work.
Eustice also said the Treasury and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy were looking at models for how such a tax might operate.
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