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Why Putting a Price on Carbon is Fast Becoming an Economic Necessity

September 30, 2008

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
bankingcrisis, businessasusual, capandinvest, capandtrade, hotflatandcrowded, markettransformation, tomfriedman

With short term borrowing costs skyrocketing, banks are being forced to charge a premium to companies looking to access their balance sheet for longer term financing. This secondary effect of the banks' retrenchment is cause for concern at it will...continued