Corporations Tax Themselves to Fight Climate Change

Business leaders are calling on negotiators who will be at the U.N. climate change conference in Paris to take concrete action, with hundreds of major multinational corporations adding their names to petitions saying climate change is a real risk to their business. They want policymakers to provide clear paths to address the problem, and one nearly unanimous recommendation is to put some kind of fee on carbon dioxide emissions. But some corporations are not waiting for government...

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