Glasgow Talks Give Forum For Business To Tout Actions, Seek Policy

The international climate talks that begin next week in Glasgow, Scotland, are providing a forum for companies facing regulatory and investor pressure to tout individual climate change initiatives, even as they also seek government actions that would lower the cost of -- and barriers to -- emissions cuts. Plans to highlight private sector action at the United Nations summit supplements industry’s interest in the outcome of the negotiations themselves, with respect to nations’ top-line carbon emissions goals, climate finance, and...