5 Major Environmental Laws in the Philippines OSHA is one of the few federal environmental laws that is not controlled by the EPA. Instead, OSHA is enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor in coordination with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), which was create...
deliberates on the biomonitoring techniques such as bioaccumulation, biochemical alterations, population, and community-level approaches to evaluate the current status with respect to the extent and levels of pollution in the aquatic ecosystems in the Philippines which also is one...
Countries scoring higher on environmental innovation are Colombia, Turkey, India, Thailand, and the Philippines. Morocco, Pakistan, and Peru demonstrate low environmental innovation levels, but this might be due to their small sample sizes. Table 1. Definition of variables. CategoryVariableDefinition...
In addition to reporting on the state of energy conservation activities, the management of hazardous materials, and the status of compliance with various other environmental laws and regulations, it also considers necessary improvements as appropriate.The General Meeting for Environmental Measures convenes...
laws for Indigenous rights are among the most robust in the world, but embedded within them is the expectation that Indigenous values and practices will work in harmony with bureaucratically managed conservation enclosures. Like its counterparts in other parts of the neocolonial world, this policy ...
In the late 1990s, Norwegian mining company Intex proposed building an open-pit nickel mine on the ancestral lands of the indigenous Mangyan communities of Mindoro, an island in the Philippines. The acid leaching process would produce several million tons of toxic waste, contaminating the island’...
It also requires compliance with labour and environmental laws in companies that supply in the countries where they operate. Costco reserves the right to audit their suppliers to verify compliance with the code of conduct. c. CSR: This supermarket chain makes donations to various organisations. d...
Auditing and/due diligence assignments have been undertaken in Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahrain Brazil, China, Cyprus (TR), Egypt, France, Finland, FYR Macedonia, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Serbia & Montenegro, Singapore, South ...
Philippines). We develop a framework to categorise the expectations regarding environmental effects of ICTs which we found in the analysed policy documents. We highlight five examples of these expectations, discussing in the respective country contexts the envisioned goals that are portrayed in the ...
(You can earn more about genetically modified organisms and my thoughts on them in my earlier post.) It is the genetic modification of golden rice that led a group of protesters to destroy a test plot of the rice in the Philippines earlier this month. Though I disagree with the protester...