Cheap potatoes, pricey asparagus: what would a carbon tax mean for you?

For business, the winners will be those whose products get more use from less carbon and who act early on supply chains, but consumers of out of season asparagus may lose out

When the world finally agrees to constrain the fossil fuel coming out of the ground, one result will be a price on carbon. Whether this comes about through a universal carbon tax or through a global carbon cap and trade system, the effect will be an additional cost that will be passed up the supply chains of all goods and services and reflected in the purchasers' price.

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