Threat of EU carbon tax prompts dubious “green aluminium” claims in Mozambique
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In the face of new carbon taxes on exports to the European Union (EU), Mozambique’s biggest industrial employer is making big claims about its hydro-powered “green aluminium”.
But researchers doubt how green Mozambique’s aluminium really is and whether it will be able to stay green. If it can’t, analysts told Climate Home, the EU’s carbon border tax could have catastrophic ripple effects through one of the world’s poorest economies.
Topic : environmental / carbon taxation
Sub-Topic : environmental taxes
Resource Type : publication
Geographic_Area : africa
Level : entry level
Language_Proficiency : low language proficiency
Data_Bandwidth : low databandwith
Cost : free
Language : English
Subtitled : no