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Biofuels: ethics and policy

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

The poverty footprint

By Making It on 28 March, 2011

Mary Arnesen, Business and Markets Project Manager at Oxfam GB, introduces a new way to help companies understand how their business affects the people where they operate

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged advocacy, agenda, alleviation, assess, awareness, business, business relations, civil society, climate change, community, company, consumers, countries, credit, crime, culture, developing countries, disaster risk reduction, distribution, éducation, empowerment, environment, equality, footprint, framework, gender, Gerry Boyle, health care, idea, identity, India, Indonesia, Industrial Development Organization, institution, issue 5, jobs, Kyle Cahill, livelihood, macro-economic, Making It, manufacturing, market, Mary Arnesen, media, methodologies, metrics, morals, multi-dimensional, natural disasters, outsourcing, Oxfam America, Oxfam GB, policies, poor people, poverty, Poverty Footprint, power, production, qualitative, quantitative, reduction, report, research, rights, rules, security, social impact, stability, stakeholder, strategy, trade, transparency, UNIDO, Unilever, United Nations, value chain, values, violence

Business matters: Women’s economic opportunties

By Making It on 11 August, 2010

A new report opens a window on to the economic landscape that women face globally, and highlights where most opportunities can be found

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Africa, Asia, attitudes, Belgium, Brazil, Canadá, chile, China, constraint, country, economic landscape, Economist Intelligence Unit, Egypt, environment, fertility, Global, government, Hong Kong SAR, indicators, innovation, Isreal, Issue 3, Japan, labour force, Leila Butt, liberal, limited, magazine, Making It, Mauritius, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, opportunities, pilot, progress, ranking, Republic of Korea, retirement, rights, Singapore, slow-growing, social value, South Africa, stagnant, Sweden, Tunisia, US, weak, women economic opportunity index

Corporate Social Responsibility: doing well… and doing good

By Making It on 7 December, 2009

The emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) over the past decade quickly gave rise to the expectation that private business would tackle some of the world’s most pressing economic, social and environmental problems.

Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged business, Convention Against Corruption, corporate social responsibility, CSR, ethics, globalization, government, human rights, ILO, public-private dialogue, rights, United Nations

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