BRICS is calling for a just and equitable energy transition while criticizing the European Union's carbon border tax. The bloc argues the measure unfairly hits producers in developing economies that have not had the same time to decarbonize. The Hindustan Times article covers the growing tension between trade policy and climate policy, and why border carbon pricing is becoming a flashpoint. For anyone tracking carbon markets, the key detail is how CBAM measures embedded emissions and what counts as clean power in that calculation. BRICS has not proposed a concrete alternative, but its position signals that border carbon pricing will stay contested. That matters for exporters, project developers, and anyone pricing carbon risk into clean energy investments.
