Price of EU carbon credits to hit €45

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Report claims credits are badly undervalued

Carbon credits in both the European Union's emissions trading scheme (ETS) and the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) offsetting programme are badly undervalued and due to increase in price before...

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