Greenpeace

This report will focus on Royal Dutch Shell, a multi-national oil and gas company (Shell, 2015) and its business and environmental practices. While Shell has engaged in unethical practices in parts of the world such as the Philippines, Brazil, South Africa, USA and Russia, this report will focus on their unethical practices and how it has damaged the environment specifically in Nigeria. Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) first set up its operations in Nigeria in 1937 (Burger,…

companies are doing a great deal to fight against them. While conversion to renewable and safe resources is slow, it is indeed taking place on a large scale. Researchers have found and are developing ways to reduce harmful emissions. The organization Greenpeace in the United States claim “With technology already available, renewable energy sources like wind, solar and geothermal can provide 96 percent of our electricity and 98 percent of heating demand—the vast majority of U.S. energy use.”…

Information Technology plays a very important role in improving the status of various different fields. The emerging growth in information system and internet services has allowed greater influence of IT in various aspects of environment and human health. As the information technology evolves, there are many new systems that are used to bring in significant improvements in the quality of environment and human health. Information Technology helps generate massive amount of data, which are useful…

are impacted by HSBC’s failure to fulfil corporate values and moral obligations in addition to investing/lending their money indiscriminately. Furthermore, the media reporting on this matter and special interest groups including Global Witness, Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, Environmental Investigation Agency, were forced to take action against HSBC and it is these stakeholders with the power and urgency to cause detriment to HSBC’s business and reputation (Archee, et al. 2015,…

When the world thinks of New Zealand, they think of clean beautiful waterways, its clean green image and of course, the agriculture, but on the contrary this is actually the opposite. This false image brings in thousands of tourists every single year, benefiting immensely economically. Among tourism, the dairy industry is the biggest economic trade, earning the country around $13.7 billion NZ dollars in export alone. Dairy export in New Zealand goes way back, in 1882 we were the first country to…

Position Paper The stigma against genetically modified foods kill people. How, you think? How does simply an idea cause the death of thousands of people? First of all, genetic modification is the direct manipulation of an organism 's genome by changing the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to produce improved or novel organisms. Genetically modified organisms are food crops that have been created through the application of transgenic,…

Cattle ranching The Environmental Defense Fund stated, when methane is in the air it absorbs the sun’s heat, and then warms the atmosphere. While methane doesn’t linger as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, it is initially far more devastating to the climate because of how effectively it absorbs heat. More heat, less rain, more drought, no more Amazon, a quite simple turn of events going wrong extremely fast. There are Land Sparing policies in act to help reduce greenhouse gasses. The…

Mark is sleeping soundly on a Monday morning. His bedroom is completely dark, without the slightest presence of light. As the time approaches six-thirty, Mark’s alarm clock chimes. “Beep! Beep! Beep!” “Lucy.” Mark says sleepily as he wakes up. “Open the blinds.” Digital blinds dissolve into the bedroom windows, and the room is flooded with the first light of the morning sunrise. Mark’s room is now illuminated and fully visible. After lifting himself out of bed, Mark makes his way to the bathroom…

Economic interest groups are ubiquitous and the most prominent in all countries. There are literally thousands of them with offices in national capitals from London to Ottawa to New Delhi to Canberra. There are several different kinds of economic interests: business groups (e.g., the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Confederation of British Industry, and the Nestlé Corporation, headquartered in Switzerland and with operations throughout the world), labour groups (e.g., IG Metall…

The population of the world is expanding at a very fast pace. This expansion is driving an increased need for space. The subsequent need for additional land is directly responsible for the action known as deforestation. Deforestation is the permanent clearing of forest cover in order to repurpose the area for residential, commercial, or agricultural use. (Deforestation). The forest cover of an area refers to woody vegetation with a minimum mature height of 5 m and a minimum of 10 percent…