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Energy Urgency: Why the Global Mining Industry is Embracing Renewables
November’s elections have given the 2015 Paris agreement unprecedented urgency, as 194 signatories race to keep temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius. Yet COP21’s enduring challenge for investors – scaling climate-resilient industries in the developing world – remains elusive. Meanwhile, according to Joseph Kirschke, mines around the world are innovation and energy-intensive ecosystems brimming with solutions just below the surface.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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How Mining and the Military Created an HIV Epidemic in Indonesia’s Papua
Martina Wanago was sick. In fact, she was sure she would die. She had contracted HIV, which has reached epidemic proportions here in Indonesia’s remote and restive province of Papua. And like many of those infected, she didn’t know what was wrong with her.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- mining
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Mining Local, Sourcing Local: Why companies that take proactive steps to utilize local suppliers will have the edge
From Canada’s far north to Sub-Saharan Africa, citizens who live around mining operations want to see benefits in the form of jobs, tax revenue, and economic development. The companies that increase the amount of local goods and services they purchase will both benefit economically and benefit the community.
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- Uncategorized
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- mining, supply chains
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The “Worst Public Health Epidemic We’re Facing Today”? Tuberculosis in the Mining Sector
Despite being both preventable and curable, tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most serious health problems facing sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Health Care
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Mining Proves a Test of Mettle for Peru’s Ambitions of Economic Development
The resignation of Peru ’s deputy environment minister amid violent protests against the country’s largest ever mining project has highlighted how weak institutions, unable to ensure decisions are made on the basis of robust information, undermine green policymaking in Latin America. José de Echave quit in late November, calling environmental impact studies on the $4.8bn (£3.1...
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- mining
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Good for the MNC, Good for the BOP – Global Alumina to Open Major Mining Operations in Guinea
The BBC reported yesterday that Global Alumina ? a Canadian-listed corporation ? has partnered with the US-sponsored African Development Foundation (ADF) to structure a triple bottom line approach to mining in Guinea. The small West African country is among the poorest in the world, but it...
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- Education