By Making It on 3 February, 2013
A snapshot of the founder of one of Malaysia’s leading solution providers for the treatment and processing of oil palm biomass.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, global green synergy, innovation, JCI, Joseph Lim, Junior Chamber International, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, oil palm biomass, palm kernel-shell char, palm oil industry, renewable energy, technology, value-added biomass products
By Making It on 5 September, 2012
Johanna Sorrell asks if large-scale sustainable production of palm oil is a viable option for the palm oil industry.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2degrees, Brazil, Cognis, Colombia, Friends of the Earth, GreenPalm, Greenpeace, IOI, Johanna Sorrell, Kit Kat, Liberia, Malaysia, monoculture, Nestlé, Nigeria, non-edibles, Oil Buyers Scorecard, palm oil, palm oil mill effluent, palm oil production, Palm Oil Promise, paraquat, rainforest, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm, RSPO, Sinar Mas, sustainability, sustainable industry, sustainable production, Thailand, The Forest Trust, uganda, Unilever Global, WWF
By Making It on 24 August, 2011
Hedda Oehlberger-Femundsenden argues that UNIDO’s Green Industry initiative can build on the successes of globalization, while helping to rectify its shortcomings
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agriculture, Brazil, Brundtland Commission, capitalism, China, climate change, collective, competition, conflict, democratic deliberation, development, economic arrangements, economic crisis, emerging market economy, energy, environment, financial, fuel, g20, germany, Global, global commons, global ecosystem, global warming, globalization, governance, green industry, greenhouse gas emission, growth, Hedda Oehlberger-Femundsenden, imbalance, India, individualism, Industrial Development, industry, inequality, institutions, International, issue 7, Japan, legitimacy, macroeconomic, Making It, Malaysia, market, nation state, opportunities, paradox, policy, political economy, politics, pollution, poverty, productivity, regulation, Republic of Korea, resources, rio+20, Singapore, social cohesion, sovereignty, stabilization, subsidies, sustainability, technology transfer, trade, trade capacity building, UN, UN Commission on Sustainable Development, UNCSD 2012, UNEP, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Millennium Summit, unrest, World Commission on Environment and Development, world economy
By Making It on 8 August, 2011
Biofuels address three key global challenges: maintenance of energy security, economic development, and mitigation of climate change
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged 2020, agribusiness, Alena Buyx, biodiversity, biofuels, challenge, climate change, development, efficiency, environment, ethical issues, ethics, European, European Union, food security, globalization, greenhouse gas emissions, human rights, indigenous, Industrial Development Organization, intellectural property rights, issue 6, justice, labour rights, law, Making It, Malaysia, moral values, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, palm oil plantation, policy, policymakers, prices, production, regional, Renewable Energy Directive, report, rights, solidarity, standards, stewardship, sustainability, target, target-based strategy, technology, trade, transport, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, workers
By Making It on 10 December, 2009
Twenty years since the concept of industrial ecosystems was first proposed, RENE VAN BERKEL considers strategies for achieving further eco-industrial development.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Asia, Australia, Berkel, business, capacity, China, circular economy, Dalian, dry-ice production, eco-industrial park, energy, Europe, Guigang City, industrial ecosystems, industrial matchmaking, integrated recycling systems, Issue 1, Japan, Kalundborg, Kawasaki, Kwinana, landfill, legislation, Malaysia, Map Ta Put, Materials, Mexico, national industrial symbiosis programme, natural resources, nisp, North America, organic, Penang, Perth, petrochemical industry, planning, policy, polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC, Recycling, Shenyang, solvents, South Korea, Strategies for Manufacturing, Tampico, Thailand, Ulsan, US, waste carbon dioxide, water
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