Business Green: How much does each ton of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere really cost us?
Whether you're a corporate executive penciling out the costs of new emissions-reduction strategies or a government regulator evaluating the feasibility of a carbon tax, the idea of putting a concrete price on carbon permeates the field of sustainability.
Now, a new paper by two Stanford University researchers contends that current government estimates of the "social cost of carbon" - a key metric of the economic...