green premium

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green premium (plural green premiums)

  1. The difference in price between something made with fossil fuels and something made in a sustainable manner.
    • 2021 February 16, Bill Gates, “Bill Gates: How ‘Green Premiums’ can help us solve climate change”, in Fortune[1]:
      The Green Premium is simply the difference in cost between doing something in a way that produces greenhouse gases and doing the same thing without the emissions.