Friday, June 22, 2012

Support for mass transit and 'green' accounting moves ahead

ClimateWire: Bank executives, investors, companies like Wal-Mart and Woolworths, and 57 countries yesterday pledged to measure their levels of wealth by the health of their natural resources. In an agreement spearheaded by the World Bank at the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, the countries and 86 private companies agreed to employ a "green" accounting system that values natural assets like clean air, water, forests and ecosystems along with traditional measures like gross domestic...

URL: http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2012/06/21/2

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