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Selling high quality credits at a higher price isn’t really accomplishing the goal of maximising climate impact. If you just want to get rich, work in finance.
by scrollaway 4y ago
Selling high quality credits at a higher price isn’t really accomplishing the goal of maximising climate impact.
If you just want to get rich, work in finance.
- wcoenen 4y agoSelling at a higher price means more revenue, more revenue means the business can expand faster, faster expansion means climate impact of refrigerants gets solved faster.
- scrollaway 4y agoIf selling at a higher price meant more revenue, everything would be priced infinitely high.
- wcoenen 4y agoObviously, one cannot simply choose to sell above market price. But the context of the discussion was about the reason for selling far below market price.
- scrollaway 4y agoYou missed that its not below market price, its below market price for the quality. But most companies don’t buy based on quality of credits but based on how cheap they are so they can get away with polluting. This is counterproductive and pricing those credits higher will lead to them not being as useful as they can be. And honestly: I find it very arrogant to think that you can show up and propose this “crazy idea” that “hey what if you guys made more money you could do more good”, as if that hasn’t been considered…
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