Stephanie Adams 9/5/2008 1:03 pm
The Australian Apec Study Center recently released their findings from a study evaluating the blockage of environmentally friendly appliances and technology to developing countries. Their findings concluded that trade barriers are the cause and that India it home to some of the highest trade barriers.
The green goods that are being prevented from reaching India and other rapidly developing countries include: low energy appliance, florescent lights, solar, clean coal and wind energy power technology. India has high tariffs and non-tariffs on many of these environmentally friendly goods coming from developed countries. Most of these tariffs reach up to 15 percent and the nontariff barrier can reach 102 percent. India is also experiencing a boom in the economy at this moment and many of Indians are buying modern appliances. Having low-energy appliances and technology on the market in India could have a positive impact on the environment.
Developing countries such as Brazil, China, India and Russia are receiving great pressure from the global community to change their environmental ways and become more active in using eco-friendly energy sources and products. Countries are aware that their environmental conditions are affected by other countries as well as their own. The global community realizes it is best to start lowering greenhouse gas emissions in developing economies early. Rethinking their trade barriers on imported green goods may help speed up the change towards becoming more eco-friendly countries and let other countries know they are serious about taking their part in improving the global environment.
http://www.livemint.com/2008/09/04231331/Free-trade-in-green-goods.html?h=B
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