{"podcast":{"title":"Climate Economics with Fexingo: Carbon Pricing, Green Policy, and Sustainability Costs","slug":"climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781","podcast_index_feed_id":7871781,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/climate-economics.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/climate-economics/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":119,"summary":"Lucas and Luna break down the real economics behind carbon pricing, green policy, and the hidden costs of sustainability. Each episode examines a specific mechanism — from EU ETS permit prices to the impact of US Inflation Reduction Act subsidies on corporate balance sheets — and traces how these policies ripple through energy markets, manufacturing, and consumer prices. Lucas brings the numbers and institutional context (how the World Bank's carbon pricing dashboard works, what the Social Cost of Carbon actually measures), while Luna pushes for the practical implications: does a €50 carbon tax actually change behavior? What happens when a steel plant in Germany faces both emission costs and Chinese competition? The show serves investors, policy analysts, and business leaders who need to understand climate-related financial risk without the activism or greenwashing. Listeners walk away able to parse a carbon offset market, evaluate a company's net-zero roadmap, and spot the difference between a real price signal and a political slogan. How do you put a number on a ton of carbon — and who pays when that number is wrong? #CarbonPricing #GreenPolicy #SustainabilityCosts #EUETS #Infla…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T06:19:03.667812+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781"},"episode":{"title":"How Green Steel Is Breaking the Carbon Cost Barrier","slug":"how-green-steel-is-breaking-the-carbon-cost-barrier","published_at":"2026-07-09T19:26:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781/how-green-steel-is-breaking-the-carbon-cost-barrier","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/climate-economics/episode-0101.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/climate-economics/episode-0101.mp3","summary":"Steel production accounts for roughly 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. But a handful of companies are now producing green steel at a cost premium that's shrinking faster than almost anyone predicted. In this episode, Lucas and Luna look at the Swedish startup H2 Green Steel, which broke ground on a fossil-fuel-free plant in 2024 and is now contracting with automakers at volumes that suggest the green premium has fallen below 20 percent. They dig into the economics: how the cost of green hydrogen, cheap hydropower, and a shift in automaker willingness to pay are combining to make green steel a viable industrial product rather than a niche experiment. They also discuss what this means for the $900 billion global steel market, the risk of stranded coal-based assets in China, and whether the European Union's carbon border tax will accelerate the transition or just create a two-tier market. #GreenSteel #H2GreenSteel #Decarbonization #SteelIndustry #CarbonEmissions #HydrogenEconomy #IndustrialDecarbonization #GreenPremium #EUClimatePolicy #CarbonBorderTax #ClimateEconomics #SustainableMaterials #AutomotiveSupplyChain #Economics #ClimatePolicy #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #ClimateEconomics Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Steel production accounts for roughly 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. But a handful of companies are now producing green steel at a cost pre…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":591,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781/episodes/how-green-steel-is-breaking-the-carbon-cost-barrier/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-economics-with-fexingo-carbon-pricing-green-policy-and-sustainability-costs-7871781/how-green-steel-is-breaking-the-carbon-cost-barrier.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}