carbon leakage

carbon leakage
 n.β€” Β«But bowing to pressure from industry lobbies, the commission announced that it would not allow the ETS to preside over β€œcarbon leakage,” an ugly term meaning the relocation of steelworks and the like from Europe to countries with non-binding climate-change standards.Β» β€”β€œAn EU plan to cut hot air” Economist.com Jan. 23, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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