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Accounting for Sustainability project: speeches by Prince Charles and Tony Blair; - We are, for example, in my own small charitable food company, Duchy Originals, now I'm glad to say getting a little bigger here and there, beginning to quantify how much carbon and other greenhouse gas is emitted in growing, processing and distributing products and, if possible and if it does not result in additional packaging, we should like to give this information to consumers so that people know the cost of their food in greenhouse gas terms as well as in terms of pounds and pence / Local organic farming can play a crucial and key role in addressing climate change because it does not use nitrogen fertiliser, which I understand is the largest source of nitrous oxide emissions globally, and because organic farming maintains and builds up soil carbon levels / I will be delighted if Duchy Originals can not only be a champion of good organic food, but also show the way in helping to address our environmental challenges - In taking all this forward it will be important that we draw on work that others have done or are doing already, so we can learn from and contribute to them, and vice versa, I should say, therefore, that none of this work would be possible without the interest and support of the National Audit Office and a number of others such as BP, KPMG and HSBC who have helped us with this project from the start, and Standard Chartered, Aviva, Camelot and PricewaterhouseCoopers, among others who are more recent, generous supporters of the project / I should also like to thank Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC, who helped us with our films today / Senior representatives of most of these organizations are with us this afternoon and I look forward to your asking them some questions later - Accounting for Sustainability is thus an ambitious project and if any of you here today who are not already helping, but would like to do so, then I should, of course, be delighte...