The free rider problem is when the private marginal cost of taking action to protect the environment is greater than the private marginal benefit, but the social marginal cost is less than the social marginal benefit.

The market price of anything is always equal to the marginal cost.

For Microsoft, the problem is that the marginal cost of software is zero.

Product bundling is most suitable for high volume and high margin (i.e., low marginal cost) products.

According to the Coase Conjecture, a monopolist selling a durable good must sell it at marginal cost.

To put it in economics jargon, efficiency requires equating the marginal cost associated with allocation (both in acquiring information about the relative benefits of different projects and in monitoring investments) with the marginal benefits.

Moreover, an existing pipeline network implies that this conventional gas can be brought to Europe at a low marginal cost.

The latest version of the McKinsey global carbon abatement cost curve identifies opportunities to stabilize emissions by 2030 at 1990 levels, or 50 below the business as usual trend line.

They also present potential co benefits for GHG abatement.

Many Parties provided lists of abatement and sequestration projects.

Creating new assets for investors to hold costs resources, and the greater the demand for such assets the higher the marginal cost of creating them.

Education is increasingly online as well, and will soon enable students everywhere to receive first rate instruction at almost a zero marginal cost for enrolling another student.

In the health sector, UNICEF, in partnership with the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), has developed a prioritization method called marginal budgeting for bottlenecks (MBB) that first identifies implementation cost restraints in the health system and then estimates the marginal costs of overcoming these constraints.

Research on mitigation included research on new energy sources and renewable energy, energy efficiency, and GHG abatement technologies.

Nevertheless, these concepts provide an indication of the areas of national interest for development of abatement and sequestration projects.

Most Parties, however, emphasized that climate change measures, particularly on GHG abatement, are primarily aimed at addressing energy needs.

Under a rigorous certification process, the cradle to grave greenhouse gas emissions are fully offset by accredited greenhouse abatement projects.

Some have collective shocks to the marginal utility of leisure.

The moral superiority of high marginal income taxes suddenly waned.

Chukchi Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China.

The Laptev Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

The Lazarev Sea is a marginal sea of the Southern Ocean.

Forests and plants remove carbon from the atmosphere, potentially accounting for more than 40 of carbon abatement opportunities between now and 2020.

The Islamists are neither a marginal political group nor a terrorist force.

So, as austerity undermines growth, debt reduction will be marginal at best.

A powerful argument for reserving capital punishment for murders is marginal deterrence.

To be eligible for accreditation under the Greenhouse Friendly programme, abatement projects must generate permanent, verifiable greenhouse gas emission reductions, avoidances or sequestration.

However, there's a lot of non political stuff happening that gets marginal attention.

Yet, the participation of many developing countries in global trade has been marginal.

Most importantly, it is the source of livelihood for many economically marginal communities.

Even so, such marginal forces do not yet constitute a system for redressing grievances.

Whatever role Berlusconi chooses to play, it is unlikely to be a marginal one.

The Secretary General had recommended eliminating several reports, meetings, and activities of marginal usefulness.

Project proposals submitted under Article 12, paragraph 4, of the Convention provided an indication of the areas of national interest for abatement and sequestration project development.

A third factor is that the violence has become a marginal issue even within Thailand.

More broadly, the ECB s marginal lending facility is an indirect means of monetizing sovereign debt.

To be sure, the precautionary and proactionary principles remain relatively marginal to mainstream political discourse.

The Norwegian Sea () is a marginal sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Norway.

They calculated that 75 to 80 of economic growth did not come from increasing the capital output ratio at least not if the private marginal product of capital was taken as an indicator of the social marginal product.

Outdoor lighting has a marginal and sometimes even contradictory influence on crime and fear of crime.

Under land management, adaptation options included afforestation, reforestation of marginal lands and protection of arable land.

During the transition, the retention of portfolios and new business acquisition will be contingent on two criteria client demand and full cost recovery. As appropriate, and in consultation with clients, provision of ad hoc services that are redundant, provide limited added value or marginal returns, will be phased out.

In Guatemala, the largest economy, less than 3 of workers are unionized and their unions are marginal.

Many governments are giving in to higher marginal tax rates rather than overhauling and simplifying the system.