| A new "field guide" to global commodities is the latest entrant in the growing collection of sustainable investment tools and finance initiatives. "In biophysical terms, humanity has never been moving faster nor further from sustainability than it is now," warn Stanford biologists Paul Ehrlich and Gretchen Daily, and Paul Kareiva from the Nature Conservancy, in a paper published in the journal Nature's special Rio+20 issue in June.
And while their central message is a dire one indeed, the authors focus on three areas that, if properly addressed, can achieve sustainability: population, equity and natural capital...............................................Full Article: Source
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