Global Briefing: Fears over green trade battle grow, as EU ups tariffs on Chinese EVs

James Murray
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Global Briefing: Fears over green trade battle grow, as EU ups tariffs on Chinese EVs

Also this week: global progress on expanding energy access stalls, the OECD mulls plan to stop private sector coal financing, and Switzerland defies ECHR climate ruling

Fears are growing that the simmering clean tech trade tensions between the EU, US, and China could boil over into a full blown trade war, after Brussels signalled it was set to follow the US in increasing...

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