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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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How businesses are banking on natural capital | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  •  As Unilever CEO and sustainability champion Paul Polman said earlier this week, “We must move from a negative footprint, to a positive hand-print.”
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G.(reen)O.P.? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • This shift is best summed up by Glenn Prickett, the chief external affairs officer for The Nature Conservancy: “We spent the 20th century protecting nature from people, and we will spend the 21st century protecting nature for people.”
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How Much Is Nature Worth? About $72 Trillion a Year - 0 views

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  • Science Knowledge on 02 Jul 12
     
    Without Earth's ecosystems, human life could not exist. But is there any way to place a monetary value on the "services" that the Earth provides civilization and human enterprises? And is there any value in pursuing such an exercise?
  • CI Editorial on 02 Jul 12
     
    Very exciting that so many major companies are involved. Thanks for posting!
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The Breakthrough Institute: So, You Want To Be a Conservationist? - 0 views

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  • Whereas the old conservation sought to preserve tracts of "pristine nature" from human impact, a new conservation will "enhance those natural systems that benefit the widest number of people, especially the poor."
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