The beginners' guide to the UK's carbon trading schemes

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Emissions trading is widely touted as one of the best mechanisms for tackling climate change, but how do these schemes work and how will your business be affected? Tom Young investigates three of the emissions trading schemes having an impact on UK firms

Over the past three years carbon trading has emerged as one of the most important weapons in the fight against climate change, with politicians and business leaders of all stripes singing its praises....

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