Big companies should report their impact on the environment in addition to their earnings under a UN plan to boost economic growth and ease poverty by 2030, according to recommendations by a panel of world leaders including British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Slowing climate change and protecting the environment should be at the core of global development, said the 27-member panel, led by Cameron, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
"There is one trend - climate change - which will determine whether or not we can deliver on our ambitions," said the report, released on Thursday (30 May) in New York. "Without environmental sustainability, we cannot end poverty; the poor are too deeply affected by natural disasters and too dependent on deteriorating oceans, forests and soils."
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