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''Options - real options.''


Carbon taxes are ones designed to reduce amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, including Carbon Dioxide.
The valuable operational choice available to the owner of a project or of a business, to contract it.


Examples include taxes on motor vehicles and their fuel, especially when higher rates of tax are levied on relatively more polluting products and activities.
This is an example of a real option.
Other examples of real options include the options to expand, defer or abandon the given project or business.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Carbon footprint]]
* [[Abandonment option]]
* [[Corporate social responsibility]]
* [[Deferment option]]
* [[CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme]]
* [[Expansion option]]
* [[Renewables]]
* [[Real option]]
* [[Real options valuation]]
* [[Termination option]]
 
 
=== Other resources ===
* [[Media:2015_07_July_-_Hidden_treasure.pdf| Hidden treasure, The Treasurer, 2015]]

Revision as of 08:54, 12 March 2021

Options - real options.

The valuable operational choice available to the owner of a project or of a business, to contract it.

This is an example of a real option. Other examples of real options include the options to expand, defer or abandon the given project or business.


See also


Other resources