Environmental Principles and Policies

recognized sustainability and corporate governance initiatives, in particular; PRI (Principle for Responsible Investment), Global Impact and the Equator Principles. They endeavor to incorporate the best sustainability practices into their business, giving consideration to each region of the country and the impact it has on the environment. Their management process has adopted economic, social, and environmental indexes developed in Brazil and internationally, including the Dow Jones…

Choosing to do business with an unethical partner can be harmful to your environmental stance and hence your reputation. Measuring the TBL Measuring the TBL Measuring an organisations sustainability is a complex task, Dahl (2012) states that policy makers and regulators still have a lot of work to do in terms of setting out clear and concise indicators for sustainability. The importance of sustainability…

economic growth in China. However, a number of researchers (Price 2016; Tang, Wong & Lau 2008) points out that these projects also have led to increasing public protests and social conflicts in China. As a possible way to tackle these issues, environmental and social impact assessment has attracted much attention from Chinese scholars and authority, and it also has become a formal requirement for certain kinds of projects in China. Based on the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) for Huainan Mining…

foreign policy, and crafted Canada’s foreign strategy that has been known around the world for many decades. Canada’s role in World War two to help aid in the fight of Nazism and Fascism played a victorious contributions to help defeat the axis powers, and formally granted Canada the title of international liberators around the globe. In the years post Second World War, Canada has always done its best to maintain her title as liberal internationalists.…

liberalization on the environment and the subsequential disguise of protectionism as environmental protection (Harold). growing inequities and the disparity in agro production, limitation in the access of markets and discriminatory trading policies became at the core of the Uruguay negotiation rounds in 1995 that led to the Creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO’s non-discriminatory principles meant that each country would treat all others the…

Importance of the Nature Conservation Nature is constantly changing, even before the dawn of humanity. From the breakup of Pangaea to the extinction of dinosaurs, from the Sahara Pump to the Ice Age, Earth has completely changed from what it was millions of years ago. Beyond these spontaneous events, initiated by Nature itself, Humans are continuously adapting the Planet to accommodate their needs through careless interaction with their surrounding environment. The influence of anthropogenic…

INTRODUCTION The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into force on New Year’s Day 1994. The signatory members are the United States, Mexico, and Canada. While the purpose of NAFTA is to promote investment in those regions, the treaty does not confirm if water is a saleable good. The text fails to mention the word “water,” but nor does it expressly prohibit transactions involving the natural resource. This terse dichotomy leads to the following issue. The issue is whether…

It included new recommendations for maximum working hours (60 hours/week), a ban on forced labor, and minimum wages, environmental, and safety standards (Beder,2002). However, there was no visible improvement in the working conditions, and many reports documented Nike’s labor practices such as by Vietnam Labor Watch in New York, Community Aid Abroad in Sydney, Hong Kong Christian…

reading and research but a more formal education is always an edge. However, topics are taught and tackled, level by level and not all at once. Just like how and when sex education is done, a question arise on when should students be taught on environmental sustainability. While some groups suggest that it should be touched in higher education, others think that it should start as early as possible. We have always said that education and awareness is top priority in sustainability. So, when do…

Regional integration is the act where two or many nation-states accept to unite and elaborate together to access salutation and materials benefits. This integration is usually described by minimum one written agreements that explain the specifics details of elaboration, and which countries interfere in this integration. It can start as economic integration, and then it may become political integration. The promotion of regional integration boosts serious political and economic benefits in the…