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S5 Ep51: The great carbon arbitrage

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Climate Change - Who's Going to Make It Happen?

The Biden administration is proposing to set up a carbon credit system. It would allow power plants to sell their emission rights for at least $30 per ton of CO2. That means that they can re-penet the game by selling that right to emit and then building renewables in its place. And that's the carbon arbitrage that we refer to.

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