The biochar system entails a significant reconfiguration of farming operations, including some completely novel practices that impose considerable demands of labour, time, skill and attention. The potential dir
• existing Unilever commitments • best practice, drawn from other existing and recognised benchmarking standards (e.g. SAI FSA) Sustainable sourcing guidelines: accepted standards, assessments, codes, and programmes An independent benchmarking of legislation has not been included within the scope...
Defenders 6 2: Human rights defenders' vulnerability We recognise human rights defenders are increasingly put in vulnerable situations and conditions, and the shrinking space in many countries where they can operate safely due to often restrictive legislation, stigmatisation and the...
Jeremy Bentham describes his "greatest happiness principle" in "Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation," a 1789 publication. He wrote, "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought ...
This is the same definition for women in management positions as the one used by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. 7 Abbreviation for the International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists. The IFSCC is an organization that brings together cosmetic chemists from around the ...
About ad 80 the Senate of Rome passed legislation to protect the city’s supply of clean water for drinking and bathing. In the 14th century England prohibited both the burning of coal in London and the disposal of waste into waterways. In 1681 the Quaker leader of the English colony of ...
compare laws. The customary laws that one found here and there could hardly hold any interest for scholars labouring to give society a model of idealjusticeand to discover or elucidate a higher law above humankind’s making. Indeed, in their opinion, local laws were no more than rubbish and...
The English constitution and the English common law grew up together, very gradually, more as the result of the accretion of custom than through deliberate, rational legislation by some “sovereign” lawgiver. Parliament grew out of the Curia Regis, the King’s Council, in which the monarch or...