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The EU and the USA have so far unsuccessfully negotiated a transatlantic trade agreement: After the USA returns to the Paris climate agreement, the Greens are pushing the EU Commission and the new US government to create a climate-neutral transatlantic trade area.
The party had rejected the TTIP free trade agreement between the EU and the USA for years.
Now, in a joint paper by the Green Party leaders Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, it says: Together, the EU and the USA could take on a global leadership role in reducing harmful emissions.
The EU Commission should work out a proposal for a “joint CO2 border adjustment mechanism” and invite the new US President Joe Biden to create a joint trading zone for climate neutrality, according to the paper available to the Bloomberg agency.
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“No other partnership in the world can be as decisive for meeting the Paris climate goals as a transatlantic alliance for climate neutrality,” write Baerbock and Habeck.
There are points of contact between the EU's Green Deal and the plans of the Biden administration, for example, with the expansion of the hydrogen infrastructure and electromobility.
EU wants punitive tariffs on imports from countries with little climate protection
In June, the EU Commission wants to present a draft law with the aim of imposing punitive tariffs on imports from countries with insufficient climate protection requirements.
The EU and the US have so far unsuccessfully negotiated a transatlantic trade agreement.
The talks were put on hold under former US President Donald Trump.
Now there are increasing voices on both sides of the Atlantic in favor of resuming negotiations.
Climate policy is part of a “new transatlantic agenda” that is being developed in the paper of the Green leadership for the post-Trump era.
It also deals with economic development after the corona crisis, rules for the global digital economy and a “common agenda for resilient democracies”.