China appears to win fight on tradepublished at 15:38 GMT<\/p>\n
15:38 GMT<\/p>\n
Esme Stallard and Mark Poynting
BBC Climate team<\/p>\n
We can bring you some more now from the draft deal, which we have been combing through.<\/p>\n
Another key thing that countries were fighting over was trade measures to deal with climate change.<\/p>\n
Those include allowing countries that are ahead on their cuts of planet-warming emissions to “sell” that surplus off to ones that are behind – meaning that on balance the world would still be on track.<\/p>\n
But the EU has also introduced their own measures, which affect carbon-intensive products like steel.<\/p>\n
China is a major importer of steel into the EU, so it wanted the COP30 deal to make clear these types of moves shouldn’t be allowed.<\/p>\n
And it seems they got a concession.<\/p>\n
The draft deal says that any measures taken to address climate change – like carbon taxes – should not cause “arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination or a disguised restriction on international trade”.<\/p>\n
What this means in practice isn\u2019t clear. In theory, COP does not settle disagreements like this, which would normally go to the World Trade Organization or international courts.<\/p>\n
But this agreement could be used as evidence for what the EU and others have committed to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China appears to win fight on tradepublished at 15:38 GMT 15:38 GMT Esme Stallard and Mark PoyntingBBC Climate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-277530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}