Following the Exxon Valdez oil spill , Rechelbacher was the first to sign onto the Valdez Principles , now the Ceres principles , joining corporate environmental responsibility with corporate bottom line . In 1992 , along with his partner Kiran , he attended the Earth Summit , where three key agreements occurred : the Climate Change Convention , a precursor to the Kyoto Protocol , the Convention on Biological Diversity and an Intellectual Property Rights accord for indigenous peoples that included preventing actions that could be deemed culturally inappropriate and/or cause environmental destruction . Through this convention , Rechelbacher forged a relationship with the Brazilian Yawanawa tribe began a project cultivating uruku and replanting seedlings in deforested areas
Exxon Valdez oil spill
Exxon Valdez oil spill
Horst Rechelbacher