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Responding to Ecosystem Degradation

March 13, 2008 on 5:03 am | Is it possible that another equally serious threat will soon supplant climate change on the world stage, taking over headlines, making its presence felt in the most remote regions? And might this threat, while linked to climate change, threaten business in new and different ways, ways which we can hardly imagine today, but which companies must heed if they want to be in business tomorrow? Ecosystems provide companies with a wide variety of benefits or services including freshwater, wood, pollination, climate regulation, and protection from natural hazards, to name a few. World Resources Institute President Jonathan Lash believes that the world???s forests, wetlands and other e...