These retailers will be looking for some level of green accounting on the products they are buying.
Though Europe's carbon-trading scheme does require far more detailed emissions data than the GRI, in most countries green accounting has few teeth.
And is organic cotton from abroad really organic Meanwhile green accounting of a sort for consumers is also poised to take off.
Green accounted for 68 of those yards and capped the drive with a 14-yard touchdown catch in double coverage with 41 seconds remaining.
Since then, a range of indices have been developed to measure the environment, such as green accounting, which sought to take into account the environmental cost of economic activity.
Scott Latham, an executive managing director of Jones Lang LaSalle, said real estate investment trusts, or REITs, like S. L. Green, accounted for 18 percent of the commercial real estate acquisitions in 2007, but only 10 percent last year.
More work is needed, but thanks to technologies such as satellite observation, computing and the internet, green accounting is getting cheaper and easier.Which leads naturally to the third goal, the embrace of cost-benefit analysis.
The strongest initiatives were made outside the negotiating halls, where significant agreements have been struck on investing in public transport, commitments made to green accounting by corporations and strategies agreed by cities and judicial bodies on reducing environmental impacts.
Some independent research groups have tried to devise a kind of "green accounting" or "general progress indicator," but most economists say that so far, attempts to merge G.D.P. and environmental damage are seriously flawed.
For adults the less serious cases (yellow and green) accounted for 80.5% and the more serious cases (red and orange) for 19.4% and for children 81.6 and 18.4%, respectively (both P > 0.05).
