A boom in export restrictions on raw materials critical for green technologies threatens to upend the global economy and make climate goals harder to meet
critical for green technologies has a potentially sizable impact on the global economy and could make climate goals harder to meet, research by the OECD shows.
The restrictions — most frequently taxes, but also quantitative limits — have increased more than five-fold in the last decade to a point where 10% of the global value of exports is subject to at least one measure, the OECD said.
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