Valuing the services of nature and why it is so important for business

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Valuing the services of nature and why it is so important for business

Natural Capital Coalition with the help of WBCSD and IUCN has brought together several businesses to develop the Natural Capital Protocol, a framework to internalize the externalities that will be tested by 40 leading businesses including The Coca Cola, Hugo Boss, Dow Chemicals, Shell and several others. The testing programme of the framework will be led by Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL) to understand its robustness.

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'Change the rules of the game": Summary Primer on Delhi Sustainable Development Summit

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'Change the rules of the game": Summary Primer on Delhi Sustainable Development Summit

ndia has taken upon itself in playing a major role in driving the agenda of these small island states by bringing them on the table year on year at the recently concluded 13th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

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Corporate Perspectives on Resource-Efficient Growth and Developme

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Corporate Perspectives on Resource-Efficient Growth and Developme

"Most CEO's don't understand Sustainability", said John Elkington in a recent interview to Economic Times. Well, that sums up this post and the Corporate Perspectives on Sustainability and Resource-Efficient growth within the Indian context!

Actually, with whatever the CEO's do understand of Sustainability, CSR or Corporate Social Responsibility is a big part of their perspective on the Resource-Efficient growth and development. We need to get this straight - CSR is not Sustainability and it definitely is not Resource-Efficiency!

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7 drivers that help Define the Future We Want

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7 drivers that help Define the Future We Want

Why has it become so important in the recent past that humanity has to define the kind of future it would like to live in?  Because if we don't take the time to define the future we want, we then ought to be prepared with any kind of future handed to us

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Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change - a brief run-up to DSDS 2013

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Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change - a brief run-up to DSDS 2013

Nicholas Stern, the author of the 2006 government-commissioned review on climate change, recently shared his current views at WEF, Davos, that he got it all wrong on climate change. He says it is far, far worse than earlier predicted with the planet on track for a 4 degree rise in temperature.

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