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Across the river from Belinda Elida Barja’s two-room apartment, the lead and zinc smelters of Doe Run Peru spread smoke and dust in the mountain town of La Oroya.
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Bloomberg BNA — Companies are starting to consider the value of natural resources in making business decisions, a practice that will become increasingly important as those resources become further constrained, corporate representatives say.
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Kansas representatives propose a bill to ban sustainable development in Kansas. Literally.
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Bloomberg BNA -- The environmental impact of doing business costs the global economy $4.7 trillion a year, according to a report released April 15 .
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The deepest downturn since the Great Depression has interrupted a decades-long trend of jobs steadily moving to the suburbs and hollowing out urban business districts across the U.S., a study finds.
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A lack of ambitious greenhouse-gas reduction targets among rich nations is the main barrier to continued investment in clean energy, according to a project developer lobby group.
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Last June, I raised a few eyebrows when I told attendees at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (aka Rio+20) that "accountants would save the world." But I meant it. To get all businesses involved in solving the world's toughest problems, we must change the accounting rules.
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The following is a reformatted version of a statement released today by leaders of the Group of 20 emerging and industrialized nations following their summit in Los Cabos, Mexico.
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Bloomberg BNA — Global political leaders have the best opportunity yet in 2013 to adopt bold solutions that globally address climate change, a leading British economist said April 2.
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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who yesterday vowed to boost the lender’s contribution to easing the effects of climate change, was urged by non-profit organizations to stop financing fossil-fuel projects.
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