"Many economies remain blind to the huge value of the diversity of animals, plants and other lifeforms and their role in healthy and functioning ecosystems, " said Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (Unep).
Yet one doubts that a properly functioning market would ever provide such high compensation to the chief executive of a company that loses millions annually.
Critics of executive compensation should be content with corporate compensation decisions if they're made by an effectively functioning, fully informed, truly independent and completely transparent compensation committee.