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Mar 31, 2005

Paying and trading for carbon

With increasing focus on environmental issues, how long before environmental risk and opportunity evaluations make it onto the balance sheet?

Russia's signing of the Kyoto Protocol in late 2004 and President Bush's early 2005 challenge to US industry to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 18 percent by 2012 have reinforced the idea that accountability for GHG emissions is now a mainstream subject. Today there is increasing awareness that harmful emissions can entail multiple expenses, including environmental clean-up and healthcare costs, and lost productivity and tax revenues resulting from lost working days. The indications

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