When will Business 101 include a chapter on environmental responsibility and the economic impact of destroying the environment? Maybe this is a start…

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Spending on environment yields big returns: report

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OSLO (Reuters) – Spending to protect the environment, from coral reefs to forests, can bring big returns to aid a worldwide assault on poverty, a U.N.-backed report said on Wednesday….

“The environment…is not a luxury good, only affordable when all other problems have been solved,” said Klaus Toepfer, head of the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) which was among 30 international groups behind the report.