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Rio+20: Campaign pressures corporate sector to change its destructive ways | Guardian S... - 0 views

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Pavan Sukhdev Corporation 2020 TEEB green economy business taxes extraction accounting Rio+20 corporations

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  • "There is no point in asking for change at a macro or sector level without also targeting change at the agent level. We have a serious agency problem. Corporations are 60% of GDP and 70% of global employment and left to themselves, 'Corporation 1920' type companies are unlikely to create the green economy. As the saying goes, turkeys don't vote for Christmas.
  • In the world of Corporation 2020, financial leverage would be limited by regulations that align corporate interests better with societal goals such as financial and economic stability. At present, this task is left largely to investors, with fund managers becoming the unlikely conscience-keepers of society. This is an unwise situation, to say the least.
  • the imposition of taxes on resource extraction, for businesses to be transparent about their impacts on society, and the creation of rules to make companies more accountable in the way they advertise products and services.
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  • Taxes on resource extraction
  • Reporting
  • Accountable advertising
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allAfrica.com: Uganda: The Interplay Between Gender and Climate Change - 0 views

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climate change gender women agriculture Africa

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  • A United Nations Development Program Report of 2008 states that 83% of people who die due to impacts brought about by climate change disasters are women. Women and men are affected in different ways because of the different socio-cultural structure of their roles.
  • The 2009 State of Uganda Population Report focusing on 'addressing the effects of climate change on migration patterns and women' recognized that women in developing countries like Uganda produce 60% to 80% of food, and are also responsible for collecting firewood and water. This links women primarily to natural resources and if these resources like water are affected due to climate change then women are most likely to suffer. The Report states that 70% of the world's poor are women with most of them becoming the victims of climate change impacts.
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Anxious wait for scientists on Rio+20 talks - SciDev.Net - 0 views

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RIO+20 Planetary boundaries Brazil UN Conference on Sustainable Development

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  • 'Planetary boundaries' is an idea that was showcased by Johan Rockström, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, in Nature in 2009, and refers to limits to the use of nine of the Earth's resources, ranging from activities that generate carbon dioxide to land use, the loading of atmosphere with aerosols and the use of oceans.
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OECD launches 'green economy' consultation with developing countries - SciDev.Net - 0 views

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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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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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