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Environment Pollution World's top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates

Posted by Ed on Tuesday, February 14, 2012, In : Business, environment and awareness

Source of Info: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Report for the UN into the activities of the world's 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment

The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world's biggest companies would wipe out more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable, a major unpublished study for the United Nations has found....

FACTBOX-The world's rising loss of species and its costs!

Posted by Ed on Monday, September 27, 2010, In : Business, environment and awareness

Sept 28 (Reuters) - The United Nations says the rate of animal and plant extinctions is up to 1,000 times higher than inferred in the fossil record, a biological crisis that is the worst since dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago.

U.N. talks in Japan next month aim to set 2020 targets to put the brakes on the loss of species. Scientists say the world needs to act to avoid disasters such as the drying out of the Amazon and ocean dead-zones caused by the build-up of fertilisers....

Gore on BP Disaster - www.climateprogress.org

Posted by Ed on Wednesday, August 11, 2010, In : Business, environment and awareness

Gore on BP disaster: “This is a consciousness-shifting event. It is one of those clarifying moments that brings a rare opportunity to take the longer view. Unless we change our present course soon, the future of human civilization will be in dire jeopardy.”

May 8, 2010

The Nobel-Prize-winning former VP has an article in The New Republic, “The Crisis Comes Ashore: Why the oil spill could change everything.” Here are some excerpts: