Meanings
noungreen premium (plural green premiums)
plural green premiums
- The difference in price between something made with fossil fuels and something made in a sustainable manner.
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.
2021 February 16, Bill Gates, “Bill Gates: How ‘Green Premiums’ can help us solve climate change”, in Fortune
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green premium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/green%20premium
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