Keir Starmer looks to link UK and EU emission trading schemes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : She said she was "absolutely happy" to look at the idea of Britain joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean convention, a customs agreement between the EU and 20 countries, including in the Middle East and Balkans.
58% : She has also supported Britain aligning permanently with EU rules in established industries such as chemicals.
55% : Since Brexit, when the EU and UK separated their carbon markets, UK permits have traded at a significant discount to those traded in the EU.
55% : The EU is also demanding a bilateral "youth experience scheme" to allow under-30s to be able to travel and work in the UK and the bloc.
54% : A leaked internal document setting out the EU's negotiating positions last month said the majority of EU states were open to linkage, but on condition that the UK submitted to "full dynamic alignment" with EU law, which would require the UK to replicate relevant EU legislation on the UK statute book.
53% : It comes as EU diplomats warned that unless Starmer showed more ambition, his reset would do little to boost the UK economy.
53% : "A government spokesman said: "Under the terms of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the UK government and EU agreed to consider linking our respective carbon pricing schemes and to co-operate on carbon pricing."
53% : "Labour's manifesto set out limited ambitions for a reset, including a deal to facilitate trade in animal and plant products, the mutual recognition of professional qualifications and a deal to allow UK artists to tour freely across the EU.
52% : "There's nothing without fish," said one EU official.
47% : It would also make it possible to avoid border frictions caused by the EU and UK imposing carbon border adjustment mechanisms, or CBAMs -- a tax on carbon-intensive imports such as steel, cement and fertiliser.
33% : "It is clear they are ready to talk seriously, they are worried about Trump too," he told the Financial Times.

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