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"A Call to Paris Climate Negotiators: Tax Carbon." By Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, 11/29/15. Carbon Tax Center releases a statement co-signed by Nobel laureates, Harvard professors, and advocates across the political spectrum. "Taxing carbon pollution will spur everyone―businesses, consumers and policymakers―to reduce climate-damaging emissions, invest in efficient energy systems and develop low-carbon energy sources. This single policy change—explicitly using prices within existing markets to shift investment and behavior across all sectors—offers greater potential to combat global warming than any other policy, with minimal regulatory and enforcement costs.