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In response, the US Congress is moving to create a system of trade sanctions that would levy heavy taxes on imports from other major greenhouse gas emitters.
Industrial lobbies and labor unions are pushing hard for these sanctions to take effect more quickly.
Warning of an “all-out trade war” if the sanctions go forward, US Trade Representative Susan Schwab argues that green trade sanctions would violate World Trade Organization rules.
Developing nations’ allies, meanwhile, are warning that the sanctions plan could destroy the chances of a post-Kyoto treaty.
The growing dispute over trade sanctions brings to the fore not only the fundamental ethical question of whether wealthy nations should bear the burden of emissions reduction alone, but also the strategic question of whether sticks as well as carrots should be used to induce green behavior in developing countries.
Despite the threat of trade wars, trade sanctions could emerge as the most effective means of forcing international action on global warming.
As the talks enter the final phase, the issue of sanctions is likely to be at the forefront.
Iran’s hardliners play up doubts that the West will ever agree to lift the sanctions, while their Western counterparts will do whatever they can to support that presumption.
The EU oil sanctions, for example, could be suspended almost immediately if an agreement were reached.
With the core nuclear issue more or less settled, it is now imperative to resolve sanctions and normalization issues and grasp the opportunity for regional grand bargains that might then become possible.
What is required is a stronger emphasis on automatic sanctions for fiscal profligacy and excessive debt than is contained in the EU Commission’s current proposal for reform.
In the face of such noncompliance, the EU’s only recourse is sanctions – a temporary solution that is inadequate to keep in check governments that have based their political platforms on disavowing common EU rules.
In fact, such sanctions can even serve to strengthen public support for the populists.
Unfortunately, the international community’s increasingly severe economic sanctions have so far failed to deter its leaders’ ambitions.
The zone should also enforce economic and political sanctions on states that choose to remain outside, and – again, supported by the Security Council’s permanent members – impose military sanctions on those that try to develop WMDs.
But US politicians are blaming China and other countries for “unfair trade,” even threatening them with sanctions.
And, of course, the toothless warnings from Mercosur and US President Donald Trump’s timid saber-rattling should be replaced with stronger economic and financial sanctions.
Barring preemptive war (which has proven counterproductive) or effective sanctions (which have thus far proven insufficient), only sincere steps toward nuclear disarmament can furnish the mutual security needed to forge tough compromises on arms control and nonproliferation matters.
Putin insisted that the drop in Russian GDP – some 3.7% in the last year – had been caused primarily by plummeting oil prices, offering only a brief mention of the Western sanctions imposed in response to his annexation of Crimea.
In the face of threatened US airstrikes and tight economic sanctions – even from its neighbor and supposed ally China – North Korea has achieved the status of a nuclear-weapons state.
For regulation to be truly effective, it must be backed by robust enforcement – with sanctions for noncompliance.
Pressure was already growing to introduce trade sanctions in response to China’s refusal to allow its currency to rise to a natural level against the dollar.
Moreover, Congress will resist rolling back any of the long-standing economic sanctions against Cuba.
Development Aid for Development’s SakeAlmost daily, the United States and Europe brandish threats to impose economic sanctions or cut off development assistance unless some vulnerable government accepts their political strictures.
Second, US and European threats to cut off aid or impose sanctions are in any case far too weak to accomplish much besides undermining already unstable and impoverished countries.
The decade-long sanctions against Myanmar have not restored Aung San Suu Kyi to power, but have deepened the disease burden and extreme poverty in that country.
Iran has threatened to cut oil exports if the United Nations Security Council imposes sanctions against it for violating its nuclear pledges.
In any case, Russia’s veto in the Security Council is a tacit admission of guilt, opening the door for the Netherlands – which lost the most citizens in the attack – to push for additional sanctions.
When Estonia resisted, Russia imposed sanctions and cut off gas supplies.
Russian sanctions actually helped Estonia re-direct its economy westward.
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