Geopolitics
The Carbon Accounting Trap: A New Weapon of Western Economic Coercion Against the Global South
The world urgently needs a single, comprehensive carbon accounting system to accurately track emissions and enable policies like carbon border tariffs, but the current push for such a framework risks becoming another tool for Western economic coercion that unfairly targets developing nations like India and China under the guise of climate action. This so-called 'global standard' is a thinly veiled attempt to shackle the Global South with compliance costs and trade barriers, perpetuating colonial-era domination while the West evades its own historical responsibilities.
