How putting a price on carbon saved Microsoft $10m a year

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Since 2012 the tech giant has put an internal fee on carbon, which feeds into a multimillion-dollar fund to reduce the company's footprint, buy green energy and develop new clean technologies

California is selling out of cap-and-trade credits, China is preparing to launch a national carbon market and the European Union is already 10 years into the biggest global experiment to date on the economic...

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