Execs urged to adopt "shadow carbon pricing" strategy

James S Murray
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Government hopes more firms will imitate the National Grid and incorporate shadow price for carbon emissions into cost-benefit analyses

Growing numbers of businesses are expected to adopt a "shadow price" for carbon when making infrastructure decisions after the UK National Grid announced it is to emulate the government's approach of attaching...

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