The UMD Sustainability Office has said that carbon would need to be priced at around $100 per ton before it would make financial sense for the university to move away from their current power plant. This suggests that: a. UMD's discount rate is very low. b. All of these are true. c.if carbon was priced at $50 per ton, the university would simply pay the $50 per ton cost for carbon emissions generated by the power plant d.UMD is behaving in a dynamically inconsistent way

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The UMD Sustainability Office has said that carbon would need to be priced at around $100 per ton before it would make financial sense for the university to move away from their current power plant. This suggests that:

a. UMD's discount rate is very low.

b. All of these are true.

c.if carbon was priced at $50 per ton, the university would simply pay the $50 per ton cost for carbon emissions generated by the power plant

d.UMD is behaving in a dynamically inconsistent way

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