Information on environmental performance of organizations might be available to
some extent, but, decision-makers of internal company, as well as those in public authorities, are seldom able to
link environmental information to economic variables and are crucially lacking environmental cost information.
As a consequence, decision makers fail to recognize the economic value of natural resources as assets, and the
business and financial value of good environmental performance. Beyond “goodwill” initiatives, a few marketbased
incentives exist to integrate environmental concerns in decision-making.