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In theory putting a price on carbon emissions should incentivise businesses to stop polluting. So why have carbon markets failed to achieve their goal of reducing global emissions? Read more here: https://econ.st/3mi51Eo

00:00 - Has putting a price on emissions worked?
00:27 - Where do carbon markets come from?
01:42 - How does ‘cap and trade’ work?
03:22 - Why aren’t carbon markets reducing emissions?
04:15 - What are the loopholes?
05:24 - What are the solutions?

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