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How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

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…
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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…
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State-Owned Enterprises: Role and Governance

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…
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Allocation of Rights

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…
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Fiscal Instruments II: Contract-based Systems

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…
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Q&A | Daniel Kaufmann | 2020 May 26

Q&A | Daniel Kaufmann | 2020 May 26

From SDG Academy

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The live Q&A session took place on May 26, 2020, and answered questions related to the natural resource governance in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. Dr.…
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Tackling Extractive Sector Corruption in Unstable…

Tackling Extractive Sector Corruption in Unstable Times: A Conversation Between Leila Kazemi and Alexandra Gillies

From SDG Academy

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This is a recording of a live webinar that took place on October 28, 2020. Oil and mining sector corruption has led to political strife and billions lost in public…
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International Law and the Extractive Industries

International Law and the Extractive Industries

From SDG Academy

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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…
09:53

Challenges and Opportunities of Oil, Gas, and…

Challenges and Opportunities of Oil, Gas, and Mining

From SDG Academy

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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…
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The decision chain of natural resource…

The decision chain of natural resource management: Part I

From SDG Academy

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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…
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Political Tripod and Authorizing Environment

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…
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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…
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Interview with Verónica Ruiz, Nature-based…

Interview with Verónica Ruiz, Nature-based Solutions Programme Officer, IUCN

From SDG Academy

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This video is the third video of unit 2.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
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From Mine to Mobile Phone: Market, Players, and…

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

From SDG Academy

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This video explains the differences between mining and oil and gas extraction notably that extraction of oil (hydrocarbon exploitation) produces water as waste, while…
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Implementation and Monitoring Legal Frameworks

Implementation and Monitoring Legal Frameworks

From SDG Academy

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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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Short History of Oil, Gas, and Mining

Short History of Oil, Gas, and Mining

From SDG Academy

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This chapter contextualizes mining's historic role in the world economy, notably that the stages of human history are partially defined by developments in this…

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