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Day: September 20, 2021

Heroic Accounting – New proposals for monetizing corporate planetary impacts are alluring, impossible and perilous

Stanford Social Innovation Review By Andrew A. King & Kenneth P. Pucker Sep. 20, 2021 As concerns mount about social and environmental sustainability, an unlikely planetary hero has emerged: the accountant. A growing collection of investors, academics, and business leaders have proposed that better accounting practices can overthrow what Financier Ronald Cohen calls “the tyranny […]