Conservative Finance Spokesperson Paul Davies also called on the government to conduct a sustainability impact on the assessment of the draft budget.

BBC: Finance questions

Several of the companies involved have already been using their own internal lifecycle assessment tools to improve the sustainability of their products, and those tools have helped to inform the Index.

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The IMF has indicated that it is likely to join the bailout, but that its involvement will depend on its own assessment of the country's debt sustainability once the proceeds from the deposit tax have been assessed.

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The Road to 2020: Corporate Progress on the Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability, set for release at our annual conference April 25, is our first assessment of progress on The Roadmap.

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First my environmental life cycle assessment research with Stanford and NRDC exposed me to a bunch of great data sets, which quantify sustainability impacts for most products and services.

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The panel on Indigenous Knowledge noted the expanding recognition of indigenous and traditional knowledge as an essential building block for global sustainability in numerous domains such as biodiversity conservation and management, food security, natural disaster preparedness, climate change assessment and adaptation, amongst others.

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