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AFP: Business chiefs pledge to value earth's natural assets - 0 views

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  • Some 39 chief executives of banks, investment funds and insurance firms Saturday pledged at a Rio+20 business forum Saturday to integrate the Earth's natural capital into loans and investments.
  • Twenty years after the first Earth Summit highlighted the importance of the natural environment, they unveiled a "Natural Capital Declaration" that commit their companies also to reporting or disclosing on the theme of natural capital and accounting for natural capital in accounting frameworks.
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OECD Rio+20 green economy developing countries subsidies

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  • Turok pointed out that the mechanisms proposed for achieving the green economy — including markets and pricing, government subsidies and regulation, government investment, capacity building, and stakeholder partnerships and collaboration — contradicted each other.
  • "If African countries don't [value and deploy their natural resources] they will have more foreigners grabbing their assets."
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  • Both Urama and Tomasi said that the green economy's nebulous definition could be advantageous, because it would enable nations to define it for themselves and to plan how to achieve it according to their specific circumstances.
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Search for new species - 0 views

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species biodiversity RAP+

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    Rap+ director Trond Larsen was recently quoted in this article in Aspire, the business and first class magazine of Etihad Airways (seen by 6 million affluent travellers a year). While the world is preoccupied with species extinctions, new species are being discovered on an almost daily basis. Can these new creatures make a different case for conservation? "The overall goal of the RAP is to guide conservation priorities by exploring and describing poorly known ecosystems," says Larsen. "Without an objective understanding of which species exist and where they live, it is very difficult to make decisions about which places require the greatest conservation investments…" "Knowledge is the strongest tool to ensure the future of life on this planet, yet we still only know about one tenth of the species that occur around us," he says. "Species are disappearing before we are even aware of their existence. Discovering new species and mapping where they occur provides information that is vital in order to monitor how life on Earth is changing, and how to sustain it."
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