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UN study reveals environmental cost of world trade and environmental damage caused by world’s top firms

26 February 2010

Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment. Political pressure is growing to make big businesses pay for the damage they cause to the environment.

Read:
- Time to clean up: UN study reveals environmental cost of world trade
- World’s top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates
- Andrew Simms (new economic foundation), The price of environmental destruction? There is none

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