SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production

How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

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How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

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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…

From Waste to Wealth

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From Waste to Wealth

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State-Owned Enterprises: Role and Governance

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State-Owned Enterprises: Role and Governance

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State-controlled companies often play an outsized role in the management of the oil, gas, and mining industries. For example, they control about 90 percent of all global…

Case study: Avoid using single use plastics

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Case study: Avoid using single use plastics

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In this video, Dr Kim Borg discusses a project she was involved with about the problem of the use of single use plastics, and the influence of media campaigns that aim…

Challenges for Food Loss and Food Waste and…

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Challenges for Food Loss and Food Waste and…

Challenges for Food Loss and Food Waste and Opportunities for Reduction

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Every night, 795 million people go to bed hungry although we produce sufficient food to provide an average 2700 kilocalories every day per person. Four billion metric…

Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Extractive…

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Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Extractive…

Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Extractive Industries

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What are the key elements of a legal framework for the extractive sector? These can include a country's constitution (for example, laying out who owns natural…

Allocation of Rights

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Allocation of Rights

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Allocation of mineral rights is a significant issue in natural resource management, and illustrates a fundamental difference between extractive industries and other…

Fiscal Instruments II: Contract-based Systems

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Fiscal Instruments II: Contract-based Systems

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In this chapter, Matthew Genasci discusses contract-based systems, including both production sharing arrangements and service contracts, in comparison to royalty tax…

Global Value Chains

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Global Value Chains

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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the movement of products long distances through multinational companies, as well as the challenges presented by the global…

Environmental Impact Assessments and…

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Environmental Impact Assessments and…

Environmental Impact Assessments and Environmental Due Diligence

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Saleem Ali provides an overview of the environmental assessment process, by which regulators can manage the ecological and economic costs and benefits of natural…

International Law and the Extractive Industries

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International Law and the Extractive Industries

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This chapter covers international laws that can impact the governance of natural resources. Trade law is one example, as it can require governments not to restrict…

The decision chain of natural resource…

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The decision chain of natural resource…

The decision chain of natural resource management: Part I

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Discovery of natural resources is difficult; this is evidenced by the fact that in the typical poor country, if we look at how many resources it had discovered per…

Political Tripod and Authorizing Environment

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Political Tripod and Authorizing Environment

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in this chapter, Paul Collier looks at the politics of how the economic decision chain, from the discovery process of natural resources to domestic investments. He…

Challenges and Opportunities of Oil, Gas, and…

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Challenges and Opportunities of Oil, Gas, and…

Challenges and Opportunities of Oil, Gas, and Mining

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Jeffrey Sachs notes that it is, on the whole, good to have mineral resources or coal, oil, or gas resources as major inputs to the economy; major inputs to economic…

Corruption Trends in the Extractive Sector

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Corruption Trends in the Extractive Sector

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The extractive sector is famously prone to corruption. Resource rich countries on average score far worse than their non-resource rich peers on measures of corruption.…

Implementation and Monitoring Legal Frameworks

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Implementation and Monitoring Legal Frameworks

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Why are strong, well-drafted legal frameworks not effectively or consistently enforced? This chapter details challenges such as low levels of capacity within government,…

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