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Governments should make businesses bear the cost of their environmental impact, says Jonathon Porritt, co-founder of Forum for the Future.

Janice Heng

Janice Heng

Published Fri, Aug 3, 2018 · 09:50 PM

    IF a firm cares about long-term prosperity - or indeed, long-term survival - then it has to care about environmental sustainability.

    That's the message which British environmentalist and former politician Jonathon Porritt has been spreading via non-profit Forum for the Future, which he co-founded in 1996.

    The basic concept of sustainability, after all, is blindingly simple: using fewer resources to provide better goods and services.

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