Should a small company set an internal carbon price?

It helps if you face carbon costs soon, for example EU buyers paying CBAM or a CCTS target. Use a shadow price per tonne in investment decisions, near the cost you expect to face. Many companies use the CBAM certificate price as a reference. CDP also asks whether you use one.

How to use it

1. Pick a price per tonne and a date to review it.
2. Add price × tonnes saved to each project's savings.
3. Compare projects on cost with and without the carbon value.

Shadow price or fee

A shadow price changes decisions without moving money. An internal fee charges departments and funds projects; it is harder to run in a small firm.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads bills, fuel invoices and production records into dated, fingerprinted records, so the figure you send a buyer can be traced to its documents.

• CBAM carbon price proof
• PAT ESCerts after CCTS

Sources: European Commission, price of CBAM certificates, CDP

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.