BCA’s cause trade disputes and gut international solvency.
Cosbey & Osterwalder 21 (Aaron Cosbey is a development economist with 30 years of experience in the areas of trade, investment and sustainable development. Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, is IISD's Interim Co-President and Co-CEO. 05-18-2021 “Carbon and Controversy: Why we need global cooperation on border carbon adjustment” https://www.iisd.org/articles/carbon-border-adjustment-global-cooperation)//BH-NB//
Border carbon adjustment (BCA), long avoided and dismissed as a policy instrument sure to trigger trade disputes and poison the atmosphere of multilateral climate negotiations, is now the subject of earnest discussion among trade and climate policy-makers, civil society, affected industries, research institutes, and inter-governmental organizations. But we’re not yet having the right kind of discussion.