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>but only one of them is in the interest of a market actor.

it is only until that market actor is allowed to externalize the costs of his pollution



Given how there's a huge trade going on in CO2 emission rights (at least in Europe), that's already a thing. Less CO2 emissions (catching them, filtering, etc) means they can sell off their CO2 emission rights to other companies. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_emission_trading )




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