Sentences with phrase «for extractive»

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.

«Beyond the need for reforms of Libya's oil sector, it is hard to think of a more obvious contemporary example than Libya to demonstrate the need for new international standards of transparency and accountability for the extractive industries,» said Carini.

Nonetheless, the «decision to extract» is present either explicitly or implicitly in most of the paradigms used for extractive - industry governance, including those of the World Bank, Publish What You Pay, and Revenue Watch.

One day they'll be in a museum, too, for every extractive industry is born with the seeds of its own destruction.

Initially proposed by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2002, EITI has developed a voluntary standard for revenue transparency for the extractive sector.

In May 2014, Fernanda Monteiro attended a special meeting of the Human Rights Commission of Minas Gerais state, where citizens stood up to share their grievances in the town square of Diamantina and voiced their support for an extractive reserve.

An added headwind is the seemingly steady trend towards more onerous conditions set by host countries for extractive industries in general, and the seemingly steady erosion of the rule of law in locales once thought to be safe for new investment.

Not exact matches

As the «pay for work» practice is especially prevalent at the commodity - sourcing level of the food supply chain, the «No Fees» initiative initially focused on promoting ethical recruitment in palm oil and seafood sourcing, and has now scaled up to include companies in the electronics, apparel, and extractives sectors.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

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

Even those with little love for Rio or BHP would have to acknowledge that as a bit of a stretch, if only because pretty much every outpost of modernity in the north - west has benefited in some enduring way or other from the long - term commitment of the extractive industries.

For other recipes beware that extractives (such as vanilla) are usually extracted in corn - derived ethanol.

[7][105] Services account for 50 % of GDP, followed by manufacturing (24.1 %), extractive industries (5 %), and taxes (20.9 %).

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.

File photo Players in Ghana's extractive industry are discussing ways to restrain citizens from fronting for multinationals which invest in...

She stated that the Region has become the home for GNPC's highly tech - based activities and thus need to invest in the development of local capacity to ensure that the indigenes also earn a legitimate stake in Ghana's oil and gas extractive business.

Another group of rural voters are those who rely on extractive industries like coal mining, oil and gas drilling, and the like for their livelihood.

(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 delay in producing the 2015 report has been a great source of concern for many, including the Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) of the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI).

In 1994, the International Union for Conservation of Nature gave the concept of extractive reserves its stamp of approval, expanding its protected - area classification system to include «Category VI,» defined as «Protected Areas with Sustainable Use of Natural Resources.»

Our results call into question the current emphasis on social rather than ecological explanations for the evolution of large brains in primates and evoke a range of ecological and developmental hypotheses centred on frugivory, including spatial information storage, extractive foraging and overcoming metabolic constraints.

The botanical extractives in this formula have been used by doctors nationwide to offer additional support to individuals being treated for systemic infections and intestinal parasites.

First, stressors imposed on the reef will be confined to natural influences, the sale, lease and development of mangrove islands will cease and desist and penalties for members of the extractive sector who try to get around these preventative measures will be onerous.

One of the clearest needs is for an overhaul of the Minerals Management Service within the Department of Interior, which many environmental campaigners have pilloried not only for its approval of this project without a detailed environmental review, but for a far too cozy relationship with the extractive industries it's supposed to oversee.

• Revoke law 30230 that weakens Peru's environmental protection procedures and institutions, and prioritizes investments in agriculture and the extractive sector over land where there are pending indigenous land claims; strengthen and apply adequate resources to the National Service of Environmental Certification for Sustainable Investments (SENACE), the body entrusted with improving Peru's environmental impact assessment framework.

The EITI recommends that companies which bid for, operate and invest in extractive industry assets publish the identities of ultimate beneficial owners.

There is clear demand for better information about how different energy and emissions scenarios impact businesses, as shown by the well - supported resolutions at extractive companies last year.

Fast, who is leading a Southern African - focused trade delegation of Canadian companies active in the extractives and energy sectors, was in Cape Town for the launch of SkyPower Cares, the corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative of SkyPower — a Canadian developer of solar photovoltaic projects.

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.

The thing that really, really, seriously pisses me off, as a now historian of the extractive / energy industries, is that from Grimes Graves up until end of the last millenium, the UK had an almost 100 % record of leading the rest of the world in these fields, but we've tossed it all away for a bunch subsidy - chasing shiessters like the Yeo, Deben and Camoron clans.

For more than 30 years, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth has been organizing in Kentucky to achieve voter rights, economic justice, and a transition away from the state's extractive energy and econoFor more than 30 years, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth has been organizing in Kentucky to achieve voter rights, economic justice, and a transition away from the state's extractive energy and econofor the Commonwealth has been organizing in Kentucky to achieve voter rights, economic justice, and a transition away from the state's extractive energy and economy.

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.

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.

However, numerous studies show that failure to address the true drivers of deforestation — high demand for wood products, expansion of industrial agriculture, illegal and unplanned forest conversion, conflicts over land and resources, and extractive activities — will generally undermine any effort to «protect» forests through «payment for ecosystem services» schemes such as REDD.

Colin Roche, extractive industries campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, said: «Just last week at the UN climate talks the EU was claiming to be a climate leader yet here it is locking us in to a fossil fuel future.

Focussing on the fossil fuel and extractive industries, the report challenges the way in which fossil fuel reserves are accounted for and reported as they do not factor in the risk that some current reserves may not be combusted.

The scene is not unique to Indonesian New Guinea; it has been repeated across the world's largest archipelago for decades, partly a consequence of agricultural expansion by small farmers, but increasingly a product of extractive industries, especially the logging, plantation, and mining sectors.

He would also like to thank AMOREX and CAEX in Xapuri, Acre for assistance in field research in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve.

The Traditional Marketing System in the Three Comminities in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve: Implications for the Extraction and Marketing of Other Non-Timber Forest Products

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.

Colin Roche, extractives campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: «Europe must end its addiction to fossil fuels, including in the transport sector.

This is a powerful boost for the open contracting movement which is key to good governance in the extractive sector.

Colin Roche, extractives campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: «Under the guise of energy security, G7 leaders are pushing a corporate - driven agenda of dirty energy.

Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes — hydraulic fracturing («fracking») for unconventional gas versus mountaintop removal for coal — the two battles are one in the same and direct parallels of one another.

This is good news for conservationists as now 32 percent of the waters around the Galápagos will be protected from fishing, mining and other extractive industries.

Green Growth and The Economics of Biomimicry For those who believe that economic growth and ecological sustainability are not mutually exclusive, there is an unprecedented challenge of how to reform our extractive economy so that it becomes a nurturing one.

This has a number of benefits: it reduces the overall carbon footprint of ingredients, keeps income within the country of origin (breaking the age - old pattern of cacao always being an «extractive» resource), and results in a fresher bar made of cacao that has not languished in transit for extended periods of time.

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.

Calculating this economic value may be key to keeping these areas protected or establishing new ones, and to help compare the long - term value of protected areas to extractive industries like logging, mining or drilling for oil.

Like many parts of rural America, Appalachia is home to a variety of extractive industries, which remove resources (and profits) from areas with little regard for the local residents or the environment, and the reintroduction of hemp farming could help to turn things around in these areas.