The Great Carbon Arbitrage
Carbon Arbitrage
Climate Financing
Country
Regional
Annual
Opportunity Costs
Country
Global
Coasian Bargain
Global deal
Regional deal
Country deal
Paper
CEPR
IMF
Code
Blogs
Media
Talks
World map showing the present value of the opportunity costs of coal.
Coal phase out scenario
Net Zero 2050 (NGFS global scenario)
Time horizon of carbon arbitrage
2030
2050
2070
2100
Discount rate ρ
0%
2.8% (WACC)
3.6% (WACC, average risk-premium 100 years)
5%
8%
Type of opportunity costs
Compensation missed cash flows of coal companies
Compensation lost wages of coal workers
Compensation retraining costs
All of the above
Result data in CSV format (click here to view online, or
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