Clean product standards.

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Governments can use performance standards to help reduce emissions from products such as cement, steel, plastics, and other items that have a high carbon footprint. To begin this process, governments can set standards in their procurement programs and create labeling systems that inform buyers about how "clean" different suppliers are. This can then be expanded to cover all carbon-intensive products sold in a market, not just those purchased by governments. Imported goods would also have to meet these standards, which would address the concern of countries that reducing emissions from their manufacturing sectors would make their products more expensive and put them at a disadvantage in the market.

Gates, Bill. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (p. 208). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.