Namibia awarded for protecting marine biological diversity
Namibia’s Marine Resources Act has won Silver in the 2012 Future Policy Award. The jury stressed that the Act has served to institute an economically and ecologically viable fishing industry in the African country. The 2012 Future Policy Award highlights exemplary solutions to protect the world’s oceans and is initiated by the World Future Council, [...]
21st century political economy: prospects & challenges
Introduction It is very difficult to make prognostications about the political economy during hard times amid a general climate of pessimism, but the same holds true when the economy is expanding and most people believe there is no end to the expansion. Public opinion surveys about economic conditions in the next decade and the possibility [...]
Georgia: Announcement of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Georgia
DOCUMENTS FROM THE EMBASSY OF GEORGIA TO THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS Weekly Economic Digest of 29 August – 2 September 2011 The Agency of Natural Resources conducts the auction to obtain a license on mineral (Ferrous, Noble, Precious metals and Barite) exploration and extraction. The auction will be held on the 26th September and [...]
CEMEX tries to reason away complicity in Israeli violations of international law (VIDEO)
In May, The Electronic Intifada documented the illegal mining and the transportation of construction material from Yatir and Nahal Raba quarries in the occupied West Bank into Israel. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in London published the article and invited CEMEX and Heidelberg Cement to respond. Heidelberg Cement remained silent, but CEMEX tried to [...]
Large-scale mining to test rights of nature in Ecuador
Ecuador is the only Andean nation without any large-scale metallic mines (such as gold and copper). This unique state of affairs is about to be tested in the next few weeks when the Correa government signs exploitation agreements with Chinese and Canadian transnational miners looking to exploit the country’s copper and gold reserves. More importantly, [...]
