{"id":6761,"date":"2012-06-18T16:32:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2012-06-18T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:35:08","slug":"rio20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/06\/18\/rio20\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio+20: Coke, Unilever, Other Giants Lead Natural Capital Initiative; Plus a Summit Business News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Coca-Cola Company, Dow Chemical and Duke Energy are among 24 major companies that have agreed to develop a methodology to assign value to the world\u2019s forests, freshwater and marine systems. The Corporate Eco Forum and The Nature Conservancy are leading the Valuing Natural Capital initiative, announced at the United Nations\u2019 Rio+20 Earth Summit. Committed firms also include Alcoa, CH2M Hill, Clorox, Darden, Dell, Disney, Ecolab, EKO Asset Management Partners, Enterprise, FEMSA, GM, Hanes, Kimberly-Clark, Lockheed-Martin, Marriott, Nike, Patagonia, TD Bank, Unilever, Weyerhaeuser and Xerox. In the New Business Imperative: Valuing Natural Capital report, the organizations lay out a four-step framework for the methodology, which includes reducing risks caused by scarcities of natural resources; finding ways to cut costs while reducing impacts to ecosystems; enhancing brand and reputation and winning trust from customers who value sustainability leadership; and fueling revenue growth from products and services that don\u2019t harm ecosystems. More…<\/a><\/p>\n

News selected by Covalence | Country: Brazil | Company: Coca-Cola Company, Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Alcoa, CH2M Hill, Clorox, Darden, Dell, Disney, Ecolab, EKO Asset Management Partners, Enterprise, FEMSA, GM, Hanes, Kimberly-Clark, Lockheed-Martin, Marriott, Nike, Patagonia, TD Bank, Unilever, Weyerhaeuser, Xerox, Athelia Ecosphere, ASN Bank,\u00c2\u00a0Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena,\u00c2\u00a0Banco Multiva,\u00c2\u00a0Banco Pichincha,\u00c2\u00a0Banorte \u2014 Ixe,\u00c2\u00a0Caisse des Depots,\u00c2\u00a0Caixa Econ\u00f4mica Federal,\u00c2\u00a0Caledonia Wealth Management, Ltd.,\u00c2\u00a0Calvert Investments,\u00c2\u00a0CDC Climat,\u00c2\u00a0China Merchants Bank,\u00c2\u00a0CIBanco,\u00c2\u00a0Cyrte Investments,\u00c2\u00a0Financiera Rural,\u00c2\u00a0FIRA \u2014 Banco de Mexico,\u00c2\u00a0Fundaci\u00e0\u00b3n Social,\u00c2\u00a0Infraprev,\u00c2\u00a0International Finance Corporation,\u00c2\u00a0MN,\u00c2\u00a0Mongeral Aegon,\u00c2\u00a0Mutualista Pichincha,\u00c2\u00a0National Australia Bank,\u00c2\u00a0Nedbank, Oppenheim,\u00c2\u00a0PaxWorld Management,\u00c2\u00a0Rabobank Group,\u00c2\u00a0Robeco,\u00c2\u00a0Shenzhen Development Bank,\u00c2\u00a0SNS Asset Management,\u00c2\u00a0Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Foresti\u00e8re,\u00c2\u00a0Sovereign,\u00c2\u00a0Standard Chartered,\u00c2\u00a0Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holding,\u00c2\u00a0UniCredit,\u00c2\u00a0Vision Banco,\u00c2\u00a0Zevin Asset Management | Source: Environmental Leader<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Coca-Cola Company, Dow Chemical and Duke Energy are among 24 major companies that have agreed to develop a methodology to assign value to the world\u2019s forests, freshwater and marine systems. The Corporate Eco Forum and The Nature Conservancy are leading the Valuing Natural Capital initiative, announced at the United Nations\u2019 Rio+20 Earth Summit. Committed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,720,719,721,722,723,724,725,726,727,729,730,711,731,732,276,23,733,712,18,97,156,283,312,713,714,715,734,735,736,28,716,737,738,635,471,728,256,739,740,741,191,742,65,743,717,744,745,746,747,748,749,750,238,751,718,585,38,752,397,32,753],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alcoa","tag-asn-bank","tag-athelia-ecosphere","tag-banca-monte-dei-paschi-di-siena","tag-banco-multiva","tag-banco-pichincha","tag-banorte--ixe","tag-caisse-des-depots","tag-caixa-economica-federal","tag-caledonia-wealth-management","tag-calvert-investments","tag-cdc-climat","tag-ch2m-hill","tag-china-merchants-bank","tag-cibanco","tag-clorox","tag-coca-cola-co","tag-cyrte-investments","tag-darden","tag-dell","tag-disney","tag-dow-chemical","tag-duke-energy","tag-ecolab","tag-eko-asset-management-partners","tag-enterprise","tag-femsa","tag-financiera-rural","tag-fira--banco-de-mexico","tag-fundacion-social","tag-gm","tag-hanes","tag-infraprev","tag-international-finance-corporation","tag-kimberly-clark","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-ltd","tag-marriott","tag-mn","tag-mongeral-aegon","tag-mutualista-pichincha","tag-national-australia-bank","tag-nedbank","tag-nike","tag-oppenheim","tag-patagonia","tag-paxworld-management","tag-rabobank-group","tag-robeco","tag-shenzhen-development-bank","tag-sns-asset-management","tag-societe-forestiere","tag-sovereign","tag-standard-chartered","tag-sumitomo-mitsui-trust-holding","tag-td-bank","tag-unicredit","tag-unilever","tag-vision-banco","tag-weyerhaeuser","tag-xerox","tag-zevin-asset-management","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}