Highly relevant new economics paper just published on this
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The social cost of emissions is much higher than what we’re paying
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Um wow:
The differences within the EU are incredible. Spain at $97 and Italy at -$44. I would have thought that ETS-1 would have created relatively equal prices over all EU countries.