Why are the world’s cap-and-trade markets struggling to keep prices up?

Investors and businesses may be holding back in today’s market, waiting to see if they’ll need to buy more emission allowances to use after 2020, said UC Davis economics professor James Bushnell.  “People should still expect to buy permits sooner or later, but it appears they want to do it later,” he said.

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