New York Times (June 7)
2015/ 06/ 08 by jd in Global News
“In a welcome development, businesses are asking world leaders to do more to address climate change. This week, the top executives of six large European oil and gas companies called for a tax on carbon emissions.” Implementation will face stiff resistance, but “world leaders, who will meet in Paris later this year to negotiate a climate change agreement, cannot give up in the face of this opposition. Carbon taxes are one of the best policies available to solve this global problem.”
Tags: Businesses, Carbon emissions, Carbon taxes, Climate change, Climate change agreement, Oil and gas, Resistance
