Summary of a World without Water A brief summary of this article as below: - The River Nar is suffering water scarcity because outdated licensing rules have allowed it to become overused and fertilizer run-off from farms‚ where Coca-Cola would want to have anything to do with it. - The main reasons of the warning of a looming water crisis around the world are: 1. a surging population; 2. a growing global middle class and 3. a changing climate. - Water investment is essential to companies because
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opportunities and challenges. The article ‘BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto: Seizing opportunities in China’s Dragon Economy’ written by Breda McCarthy encapsulates this transition; extrapolated through the variances in the economic state and rate of progression‚ which is directly intertwined with the variances in political‚ cultural and legal perspective. The rapid progress in China’s economy has made it the ideal target market for Australian mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto‚ as per “World Bank
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Student Name: ZUIJIA LIU Student Number: 42280099 MGTS3301 ASSIGNMENT A Strategic Analysis of OneSteel Limited Student Name: ZUIJIA LIU Student Number: 42280099 Tutor: Alexander Stathakis Lecturer: Martina Linnenluecke MGTS3301-Business Policy and Strategy (A Strategic Analysis) 1 Student Name: ZUIJIA LIU Student Number: 42280099 Contents 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………….…..…3 1.1 Report Overview………………………………………………………….…...…3 1.2 Organisation Overview………………………………………………
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The BHP OK Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has raised many environmental‚ ethical and social responsibility issues regarding organisational management on many fronts. There have been many approaches in an attempt to confront and address the varying factors which encompass both past and present business practices. The mine was an open pit gold and copper mine located in the western province of PNG the operation of which resulted in collateral damage‚ affecting up to 50‚000 people in the nearby
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Communications BHP Billiton Limited GPO Box 2012 180 Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 September 1‚ 2012 Ms. Sunaina Gowan Executive of the Australasian Local Network PO Box 111 Sydney NSW 2000 Dear Ms. Sunaina Gowan‚ BHP Billiton is world’s largest producers of major metals‚ including copper‚ iron ore‚ manganese and so on. We were established on Australia and provide employment positions for 60‚000 Australian employees (BHP Billiton 2012). In July 2003‚ BHP Billiton participated
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Research paper ----------OK Tedi Mining Ltd. Case Study MAA350 ETHICS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES To Felicity Fallon From Student’s Name: Meng Lin Student’s ID: 900330168 Introduction The Ok Tedi mine Limited is one of the major copper concentrate producer in the world. They owned smelting market in Asia‚ Europe‚ such as Germany‚ Korea and Japan‚ etc. The corporation concentrated on social responsibilities‚ including providing education and
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Political Factors Political factors has to do with politics of the day prevailing in country. It is generally assumed that if political temperatures are down; businesses tend to flourish and the vice versa is also correct. In this particular case‚ it can be said that it is neutral and thus not expected to cause much rubble in the new companies operations. However‚ future political challenges cannot be ruled out. Nike being number one sportswear in the USA‚ its profits‚ turnovers‚ marketing sponsor
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Introduction PESTLE analysis is primarily used by organizations in the identification of the various factors that shape the external environment in which the organization operates (Babette & Fleisher‚ 2008). PESTLE normally includes the political-legal‚ economic‚ socio-cultural‚ environmental and technological factors‚ which play an integral role in describing the framework of environment that the organization is currently operating and the manner in which the factors will influence the future operations
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cal/whatsnewguides/9db3989542e0f210VgnVCM3000001c56f00aRCRD.htm) and also how the MRRT will be imposing on profits from coal and iron ore mining projects on BHP. Therefore this essay will discuss about how the introduction of carbon price mechanism results in a number of financial reporting considerations on an Australian mining company‚ BHP Billiton. (http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_AU/au/services/assurance/accountingtechnical/whatsnewguides/9db3989542e0f210VgnVCM3000001c56f00aRCRD.htm.
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The year 2012 witnessed a sharp slow down in the economic growth. This was mainly blamed on the debt crisis that the European countries had. At the beginning of the year 2012‚ the world was expecting the debts to continue spreading across the European countries (Grossman & Helpman. 2002). However‚ it is believed that the European debt can only be resolved completely if the sovereigns agree politically. Some countries have already shown their commitments in resolving the crisis. A good example is
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