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Q&A | Nina van Toulon & Richmond Kennedy Quarcoo | 2018 Oct. 18

In this live session, experts look at approaches to dealing with marine plastic pollution.

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The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development – Trailer

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Fairness, Understanding Factors of Inequality

This chapter explores inequality based on geographic factors, looking at the history of colonialism and slavery, discrimination, and indigenous populations.

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We Are Not Achieving Sustainable Development

This chapter discusses why we need to change course, and why we are not achieving sustainable development, but we are, globally speaking, achieving economic growth.

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How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

This chapter overviews investments in oil, gas and mining projects. It includes a comparison of private and state ventures. Sources of income include: cash from existing projects and retained earnings, bank borrowings against the corporate balance sheet, or project finance specifically loaned against the capacity of that project. The chapter also details the various analyses and assessments done by companies technical, social, governmental, and financial. Sir Mark Moody Stuart stresses that…

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Tensions Between Artisanal and Large-Scale Mining

There is conflict between artisanal and large industrial mining companies, which Cristina Villegas discusses in this chapter. Each type of mining can follow the other and lead to resource conflict. She outlines some of the practical challenges to coexistence and direct collaboration between ASM and LSM, including legal risks to a company, repetitional risks, potential commercial risks, perceived operational risks, security risks, shareholder acceptance, and others. Examples are given and ways…

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From Mine to Mobile Phone: Market, Players, and Extraction Process in Mining

This video explains the differences between mining and oil and gas extraction notably that extraction of oil (hydrocarbon exploitation) produces water as waste, while mineral extraction results in the removal/waste of the matrices in which minerals are embedded. Mined products also vary in value. The chapter also addresses why mining companies diversify their portfolio and exploit different minerals. Finally, it provides an overview of the start and the end of the most recent commodity…

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The Moral and Practical Limits of Global Capitalism

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Natural Resources for Sustainable Development - Trailer

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