Sentences with phrase «resources by multinational»

These sites have included the areas around the former US military bases, the extraction of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the war - torn regions of the southern Philippines.

These sites have included the areas around former US military bases, the extraction of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the war - torn regions of the southern Philippines.

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A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

Facebook, by contrast, is a huge multinational corporation, with almost unlimited resources.

On the international level he is encouraged by shifts within the World Bank (such as the hiring of Herman Daly) toward more ecologically viable programs; the spread of vital information through organizations like the World Resources Institute and the Worldwatch Institute and through various United Nations programs; world conferences on the future of the living species; and even stirrings among national and multinational business corporations.

They are motivated by the unlimited fury of the west when a third world leader exerts control over multinational corporations and directs resources towards their own people.

They belong to all Americans and the public wants them preserved and protected, not sold off to multinational oil companies,» read the statement, which was signed by leaders of the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, League of Conservation Voters and other environmental groups.

At a time when invention tends to be dominated by faceless teams at huge multinational corporations, he showed it is still possible, even in semiconductor electronics, for an inventor with enough talent and determination to triumph despite daunting disadvantages in resources.

We already live in a totalitarian regime controlled by the multinationals — big nonliving beasts (but granted rights as persons) rapaciously consuming resources and excreting products and pollution.

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

If the Supreme Court eventually rules that litigation funding is permitted in Ireland, it will mean that Irish parties who are lawfully entitled to compensation, for example due to a breach of contract by a large multinational corporation, or mis - selling of financial products by an international bank, can make use of the financial resources and the strategic experience of professional funders like Woodsford to get justice from the Courts».

By that, I mean the transition from knowledge hoarding to knowledge sharing — or wikinomics — in which a «new kind of business is emerging, one that opens its doors to the world, co-innovates with everyone (especially customers), shares resources that were previously closely guarded, harnesses the power of mass collaboration, and behaves not as a multinational but as something new: a truly global firm,» as Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams put it in their book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.

Helping multinational pharma company reorganise its UK sales force by providing strategic legal and human resources advice and detailed practical guidance on achieving its objective.