I wrote about this back on September 24. Here is some follow-up from today's Think Progress:

President Obama hosted a roundtable for CEOs from five Fortune 500 companies and five supply chain companies on Monday, as part of the White House’s Act on Climate Initiative, which urges businesses to make carbon-reduction pledges before the upcoming United Nations climate conference.

Leaders from Johnson & Johnson, Intel Corp., Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co., Hershey Co., and PG&E Corp., as well as five other companies that act as suppliers to those corporations, attended. Mars, Nike, and Bloomberg announced new carbon-reduction targets. As of Monday, 81 companies had signed on to the Act on Climate pledge, and more are expected, a White House official said.

As I wrote a week ago, a Republican poll found that a majority of Republicans including a majority of self-described conservative Republicans, now believe climate change is happening and that we humans play a role. I have a hunch that the above corporations may not totally agree with the president on climate change but they do know what consumers, whether they be Democrats or Republicans, want -- they want action on climate change:

The prevailing message behind all the pledges, though, is that action on climate change is a boon to business.

“We believe a focus on business and climate change can go hand in hand,” Todd Brady, global environmental director for Intel, said on the call with reporters.