De Beers Environmental Impacts
Unit Title: Communication in Business 100
Assessment: Critical Essay
Company: De Beers
Essay Title: Corporate Environmental Obligation: An examination of the performance of De Beers
Student Name: Arkar Kyaw @ Kevin
Student Number: 1160001
Semester: 1 2011
Campus: Bentley
Tutor: Simon Teoh
Corporate Environmental Obligation: An examination of the performance of De Beers
Nowadays, diamonds are one of the most precious luxury items where people are purchasing for large sums of money without knowing the facts that the mining industries are affecting the natural environments around them. As more people are purchasing the diamonds, the more diamonds are produced from the factories and more negative impacts are resulted on the environment. For diamond companies like De Beers is recently engaging with the community and finding ways to reduce the amount of negative impacts on the environment such as energy use and emissions, waste and recycling, use of water and impact on biodiversity. This essay analyses the performance of De Beers specifically how the company is contributing to the environmental and communities. The aim of this paper is to show a balanced argument between positive and negative impacts affecting the environment and the company.
The case against De Beers
De Beers is among the mining industries that are constantly dealing with the environmental challenges such as land disturbances, energy use and emissions, waste and recycling, use of water and the impacts on diversity (Alessandro Bertoni, MDBC 2011). Land disturbance is one of the key challenges because large numbers of soil from the earth are removed when extracting minerals from the underground. The company also admits that its industries’ actions are somewhat damaging the environment directly because of the necessities of accessing land and water resources. Almost all of the countries, mineral rights are possessed by the state and the lands are managed by
Assessment: Critical Essay
Company: De Beers
Essay Title: Corporate Environmental Obligation: An examination of the performance of De Beers
Student Name: Arkar Kyaw @ Kevin
Student Number: 1160001
Semester: 1 2011
Campus: Bentley
Tutor: Simon Teoh
Corporate Environmental Obligation: An examination of the performance of De Beers
Nowadays, diamonds are one of the most precious luxury items where people are purchasing for large sums of money without knowing the facts that the mining industries are affecting the natural environments around them. As more people are purchasing the diamonds, the more diamonds are produced from the factories and more negative impacts are resulted on the environment. For diamond companies like De Beers is recently engaging with the community and finding ways to reduce the amount of negative impacts on the environment such as energy use and emissions, waste and recycling, use of water and impact on biodiversity. This essay analyses the performance of De Beers specifically how the company is contributing to the environmental and communities. The aim of this paper is to show a balanced argument between positive and negative impacts affecting the environment and the company.
The case against De Beers
De Beers is among the mining industries that are constantly dealing with the environmental challenges such as land disturbances, energy use and emissions, waste and recycling, use of water and the impacts on diversity (Alessandro Bertoni, MDBC 2011). Land disturbance is one of the key challenges because large numbers of soil from the earth are removed when extracting minerals from the underground. The company also admits that its industries’ actions are somewhat damaging the environment directly because of the necessities of accessing land and water resources. Almost all of the countries, mineral rights are possessed by the state and the lands are managed by
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