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Biofuels: ethics and policy

Biofuels: ethics and policy

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

From steam engines to human consciousness

From steam engines to human consciousness

22 September 2010

Industrialization will continue to be the most important avenue of future development, but Alfredo Sfeir-Younis says it needs to be about people.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged abundance, agrarian economy, Alfredi Sfeir-Younis, antibiotics, business, challenges, chile, Cho Tab Khen Zambuling, competition, consumers, corporate social responsibility, corporations, CSR, developing countries, development, earth, empowerment, entrepreneurship, Europe, exclusion, external environment, finance, ford, freedom, GNP, happiness, history, human, human rights, impacts, independence, industrial, industrialization, interaction, intercommunication, interconnected, Issue 3, justice, labour, life, love, machines, management, managers, opportunities, owners, peace, people, Princeton University, processes, production, productivity, profits, quality of life, security, self-realization, social, solidarity, stockholders, sustainability, technology, trade, traders, UNIDO, United Nations, urban, values, wealth, workers, world, World Bank, Zambuling Institute for Human Transformation