Climate Vault Co-Founder Michael Greenstone Bolts Carbon to its Value
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In this episode, ICE’s Gordon Bennett sits down with Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and co-founder of Climate Vault. Michael shares how his career led to the creation of Climate Vault to attach the dollars of damage done by each ton of CO2 emissions to the cost of doing business. He explains how his organization uses the carbon compliance markets to accomplish its goals of addressing climate change by putting a fair value on carbon and using its proceeds to fund carbon removal technology.
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