Geopolitics
The Carbon Accounting Trap: A Neo-Colonial Blueprint Disguised as Climate Policy
Amy Brachio argues for a globally accepted product-level carbon accounting framework and government-mandated carbon intensity standards to unlock markets for low-carbon products. This technocratic prescription dangerously ignores the potential for such Western-conceived frameworks to become neo-colonial tools of trade protectionism, weaponizing climate action to suppress the industrial growth and competitiveness of developing giants like India and China.
