Sentences with phrase «extractive industries»

«Effectiveness of extractive industries transparency initiative explored.»

Campus Coordinator and Director of Campus Research and Resource Development UC Santa Cruz ’15 He / His In his undergrad, Chris focused on the implications of extractive industries for Indigenous communities in the Global South, while providing programatic support for the UC systemwide goal of Zero Waste by 2020.

So how should Canadian companies in extractive industries mitigate their geopolitical risk?

The G8 expressed continued support for Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).

But it has been increasingly eyed by extractive industries like logging and mining, according to Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN), which is supporting conservation activities in the region.

Basically anything that sounds like it offers some protection from fishing and other extractive industries like mining or oil drilling.

Antoine Simon, extractive industries campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, said: «The EU's PCI list should be the cornerstone of the transition to sustainable energy but with more than 90 gas projects earmarked for support, it is an industry wish list, not a list of common interest.

They also called for the state ownership of extractive industries such as coal, and for worker - management co - determination.

Capacity building, of course, remains essential for states that have no previous experience dealing with extractive industries or managing the dynamic economies that will accompany the windfall.

Moreover, the project would breach several EU environmental Directives, such as Directive on the management of waste from extractive industry and the Water Framework Directive.

Our stock answer is that the subsidies the tax code confers on fossil fuels (as well as on some other extractive industries) are peanuts compared to their environmental subsidies, especially free dumping of CO2 into the atmosphere.

In an apparent move to lay a good example following his new appointment, the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Waziri Adio, has released the details of his asset declaration.

If in neighboring Venezuela Chinese loans and investments have been largely obscured from public oversight, in Colombia Chinese investments have been much more open to public and media scrutiny, with the result that many extractive industry deals have been scuppered.

The publication of the country's 2015 mining, oil and gas Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) audit report means Ghana will avoid being suspended after failing to meet its initial deadline.

Though seemingly full of promise and productivity, in civic and art historical terms, the scenes and scapes within his paintings also constitute a world that repressed sexual desire, celebrated extractive industries, and segregated race and class and gender even more harshly than today.

But all this means building a big extractive industry in a state that hasn't seen this kind of development in decades, right near homes and schools, in the midst of rural farmland, and close to treasured parks and forests.

Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose shared mission is to protect the sacredness of the Earth by respecting and adhering to Indigenous knowledge against a rising tide of extractive industries contaminating and exploiting our shared natural resources.

The job of the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is to balance competing interests: To maintain wild areas while at the same time supporting extractive industries such as timber, mining, oil, and gas.

The Church of England's National Investing Bodies (NIBs), which have # 11 billion of assets, have announced the launch of a new policy on investing in energy extractive industries, which includes disinvestment in companies that don't meet its standards.

This has been the general mood of the conservative response to radically extractive industry, and complacency is its chief mark.

With a global Extractive Industries Program which now operates in more than 30 countries, Oxfam is working to address negative power dynamics in resource - dependent countries and has commissioned political economy research in several cases.

(a) The National Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has confirmed that from five cycles of independent audit reports of NEITI covering 1999 - 2012 the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), some oil companies and certain agencies of the federal government had withheld $ 20.2 billion for the Federation Account.

The letter was signed by Michael Wekas, Acting Head, Extractive Industry Fraud Section, on behalf of the commission's Chairman, Ibrahim Magu.

Set binding criteria that industrial production and consumption practices, especially extractive industries, do not cause violence, toxic pollution, displacement, poverty, resource scarcity, gender disparity, or environmental degradation.

Seeing has become an expanding extractive industry.

The reason for the two year extension is obvious: the Bush Administration, including its negotiators in Bali, is composed of blatant extractive industry prostitutes, with zero interest in doing anything except increasing their wealth and ending up in heaven when they die.

Second, they will provide immediate reductions in emissions and immediate reductions in the environmental degradation caused by certain extractive industries.

With recent increases in natural gas extraction, largely from the combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, many states are confronting the need to regulate extractive industries for the first time, and others are seeing rapid increases in natural gas development.

«Going forward, we urge EPA to use its power to protect the people of Appalachia and beyond from having their water supplies further degraded by irresponsible extractive industries.»

Gloria Ushigua, is a member of the Association of Zápara women, Ecuador, and a vocal critic of both conventional extractive industries and REDD - type programs as they are being implemented in Ecuador.

Carbon Tracker has focused on the risks that a low - carbon energy transition pose to the fossil fuel extractives industry, since the two - degree climate target implies a carbon budget that is far exceeded by global reserves and resources.

WH: A year or so after that I read something, it wasn't in the front page news like it should have been but way back in The Los Angeles Times, about 20 million acres of pristine forest in Montana that they were trying to pass a law through Congress to open up to various extractive industries.

Doing so you realize that corporations are a type of community and that 300 of them in the heavy extractive industries are responsible for the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gas emissions.

But coal mining is a highly concentrated extractive industry.

Joint statement: Civil Society Network withdraws from UK Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

The enactment of the Reports on Payments to Government Regulations (2014), made the UK the first of the EU member states to implement the EU Accounting Directive for Extractive Industries requiring disclosure in the annual report of payments to governments.

Antoine Simon, extractive industries campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: «Europe desperately needs to kick its fossil fuel addiction, but the fossil fuel lobby has embedded itself deep in the heart of European decision making.