Category: Corporations
The Urgent Need for Groundwater Governance: Role of Local Communities
While the groundwater is drawn to unsustainable levels at a global level, can local communities provide a solution to restore depleting water table? Hiwre Bazar is a model village in India known for its water restoring management.… Read More
Role and Responsibility of Switzerland in the Commodity Trade Sector
Switzerland, a resource-poor country, rose in only a few years to the world-wide biggest “turntable” for commodity trading. Switzerland is home to about 500 companies specialised in commodity trading and extraction, including giants such as Glencore, Vale, Cargill, Vitol and Trafigura.
A Heist by the Riverside: Proliferation of Sand Mining and Potential Reforms
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A cursory glance of existent literature gauging the frequency and impact of environmental disasters on riverine settlements reveals worrying trends. These localities –transcending national divides – have become increasingly prone to crippling flash floods, accelerated soil erosion and dwindling groundwater levels.… Read More
Finland, the new lithium powerhouse?
Lithium is in high demand all over the world. Now mining for the valuable metal is about to start in Finland.
There are only very few places where lithium is enriched to levels that allow for commercially viable production.… Read More
Venturing the Uncharted: Regulating Fishing in the Arctic Ocean
The 21st Century is rife with narratives of threats and opportunities arising from dramatic climate shifts. Contemporary transfiguration of the Arctic marinescape attest to this trend: for perhaps the first time in 100,000 years, the northern extremities are traversable by deep sea trawlers.… Read More
Turkish Stream: a New Ambition?
Turkish Stream Pipeline Project is the successor of the canceled South Stream Pipeline Project. After Turkey downed Russian fighter jet, the relations between Turkey and Russia were strained. However, with the apology coming from Turkey, the landscape was about to change.… Read More
The Magical State Meets the Magical Currency: What would Coronil have to say?
President Maduro just announced a cryptocurrency to be backed by the Venezuelan oil, gold, and diamonds reserves. The act was justified as a way of overcoming American financial blockades and stop American attempts of ending socialism in Latin America.… Read More
The Blockchain in Business Transactions : the Roadblocks to the Chain
More and more slogans coming from oil and gas, technology companies or even consulting firms, are singing the praises of the blockchain technology and how it will disrupt the business as we know it today.… Read More
Behind the Technicalities of Cryptocurrencies: Smart Contracts and Coinmap
Cryptocurrencies are becoming more and more relevant as we see the growth in interest and investment in them. Today the value of Bitcoin went beyond U$11,000, to the surprise of those who were still perplex of it hitting the U$10,000 mark yesterday.… Read More