Environment & Natural Resource Governance

The Program on Environment & Natural Resource Governance (ENRG) at Ostrom Workshop was created in 2016, formalizing this enduring component of the Workshop. The scholars affiliated with the ENRG Program study a wide range of topics, including property rights, conservation and biodiversity, climate change, urban environmental …

Mining Program | DEQ

DEQ's Surface Mining and Reclamation group regulates the mining of coal and other mineral resources to ensure that the environment isn't harmed during mining. It also works to ensure that mined properties are returned to beneficial use after operations shut down. Staff, which includes geologists, engineers and inspectors, issues permits and ...

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Programs …

The metrics are built around four pillars: governance, planet, people, and prosperity. "The disruptions of 2020 have underscored the critical importance of organizations managing and reporting their impact on the economy, the environment and society, and their increasing connection to long-term enterprise value creation," said …

Our use of sand brings us "up against the wall", says UNEP …

50 billion tons: enough to build a wall 27 metres wide and 27 metres high around planet Earth. This is the volume of sand and gravel used each year, making it the second most used resource worldwide after water. Given our dependency on it, sand must be recognised as a strategic resource and its extraction and use needs to be rethought, …

ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance)

ESG is a framework that helps stakeholders understand how an organization is managing risks and opportunities related to environmental, social, and governance criteria (sometimes called ESG factors). ESG …

Why Environmental Security is Paramount to …

Venezuela's historic meltdown is often explained as a consequence of bad governance, corruption and the collapse of the oil sector or of international sanctions. Solutions are sought in the political …

Governance of Natural Resources in the Philippines:

tween the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the World Bank). Over the past decade the government has tried to reverse these trends, introducing innovative institutional and legal reforms for sustainable natural resource management—including, in the early 1990s, a comprehensive decentralization program that

Environmental Governance Programme | United Nations …

For environmental governance, UNDP is facilitating stakeholder engagement in international policy processes, ensuring environmental targets align with the …

Welcome to MEG! — MSc Environmental Governance …

Welcome to MEG! The M.Sc.programme Environmental Governance (MEG) was established in 2005 to train leaders to be able to reconcile different social perspectives with regard to the sustainable use of environmental resources as a basis for sustainable development - for any development, at any scale from local to global, and in …

ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORY …

The Ministry of Environment, created in 1999, was originally structured in seven departments: Administration, Finance and Accounts, Erosion, Flood Control and Coastal Zone Management, Drought and Desertification, Forestry; Pollution Control and Environmental Assessment; three Special Units and three parastatals completed the …

Our Promise | Creating Sustainable Tile To Protect Our Future

2022 Sustainability Report. Our promise is to create beautiful tile responsibly. That means sustainability is at the core of what we do. Sustainability is about taking from our planet responsibility, making sure not to reduce its ability to provide for the future. A sustainable business works with nature, not against it.

Vulcan Materials Company – ESG | SAC-TUN presents its first

Vulcan Materials Company's SAC-TUN operation presented its first sustainability report outlining its long-term environmental vision and strategy, 2020 results. SAC-TUN, which means white stone in Mayan, is located near Playa del Carmen, Mexico. For 34 years, Vulcan has been working in Quintana Roo where its operating standards have been ...

Vulcan Materials Company – ESG | Environmental Stewardship

2021 ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE REPORT. Our 2021 ESG Report outlines our overall program, goals and policies and demonstrates the great work of our …

The Philippine Environmental Governance Project

The Philippine Environmental Governance Project. Aug 23, 2014. 330 likes | 564 Views. Training Lecture for RARE Conservation Program for Sustainable Fishing and MPA Management in the Philippines 16 September 2010 Part Two – Knowledge Management. The Philippine Environmental Governance Project.

Modern Quarry Management: Challenges and Opportunities

In general terms, the key challenges for the modern quarry manager are similar to those faced by previous generations of managers, ie balancing production requirements with the available resources. However, the changing nature of legislation, employment practices and the introduction of technology are all impacting the role.

Environmental Governance | University of Guelph

The Co-op program in Environmental Governance is a five-year program including four work terms, providing opportunities to work with a wide variety of employers. Co-op is designed to facilitate the transition of students from academic studies to a professional career improving students' job search skills, work performance and networking ...

GCCA Sustainability Guidelines for Quarry Rehabilitation …

quarry rehabilitation plan and a Biodiversity Management Plan, especially in areas of high biodiversity. In some cases, the effective implementation of a well-designed rehabilitation …

A procedure to evaluate environmental rehabilitation in …

Ex-post assessment – a systematic and analytical procedure to form a judgement about what is being evaluated – often requires comparing expected elements with the actual implementation of the evaluated plan, program or project (Weiss, 1998).Thus, the principle of comparison with internationally recommended best practices …

ESG Investing

ESG INVESTING. SkyQuarry was founded on the principles that parallel the current trend of ESG investing. Most obviously, the mission of the Company is to conserve resources by recycling and reduce overall carbon footprint. SkyQuarry management will be focused on other "Environmental" aspects of its operations to maintain high scores in the ...

Mining Program | NC DEQ

Failure to submit the fee by the required deadline will result in a $50 per month late fee and could result in the denial of future permit actions and/or revocation of a mining permit. Lastly, pursuant to GS 74-54, the cap on reclamation bonds has been raised from $500,000 to $1 million. Any adjustments needed in existing bonds will be ...

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Impact Investing

This course provides the principles and techniques that underpin various models of ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) investing and impact investing from the investor perspective. Students will come away from the course with a broad understanding of strategies to generate positive, measurable social or environmental impact alongside …

How to apply — MSc Environmental Governance …

Proof of work/practical experience (minimum 6 weeks) If you have work/practical experience of more than 6 weeks and can provide a proof (e.g. letter from employer, certificates), you can improve your grade in the selection process.Starting and finishing dates must be clearly specified in the proof in order to be valid.

Environmentally sustainable mining in quarries to reduce …

The dimensions of the hypothetical models were considered 2 m in the x direction (cutting depth of the quarry face), 20 m in the y direction (quarry face length), and 4.5 m in the z direction ...

Sand and sustainability: Finding new solutions for …

Sand and sustainability: Finding new solutions for environmental governance of global sand resources. GRID-Geneva, United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva, …

Green Mining

Environmentally Friendly Quarry Design. SCG has developed innovative quarry design called "Semi-Open Cut" method that combines the mining techniques of "Open Cut" and …

Environmental Governance | UNEP

Environmental Governance. 18 May 2010. UNEP's Environmental Governance sub-programme promotes informed environmental decision-making to enhance global and regional environmental cooperation and governance.

Sky Quarry Launches Innovative Offset Program, Invites

This offset program is a unique and valuable way that homeowners can have a beneficial impact on the environment today. In the future, Sky Quarry intends to create a collection network for ...

Green Mining

SCG's Green Mining A Mining Model For Sustainable Coexistence of Community and Environment . Green Mining is SCG's mining approach under the philosophy of "Where there is a plant, there is a green forest." The mining practices incorporate SCG's sustainable development guidelines and circular economy into operational and environmental …

What Is Program Governance? Importance & Benefits

Program governance is a practical way for an organization's program to deliver success by guiding it and providing good management. It does this by overseeing the program's operations and offering control much as a government does for a nation or corporate governance does for a corporation.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROCESS IN …

as the Environmental Impact Assessment process, and that accurate information regarding any intended decision be provided to the public in a timely and open manner. 2.2 Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act (Chapter 387, Laws of Kenya) • The Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act is the main