Do Corporate Greenwashing Scandals have a Shelf-Life? Wednesday‚ August 8‚ 2012 15:26 The 2012 London Olympics‚ hosted in a stadium that IOC asserts is “as sustainable as it is stunning‚” have brought unprecedented attention not just to the athletes competing for medals‚ but also to the corporate sponsors competing for air time. A number of tarnished reputations plague the corporate contestants. BP Global‚ Dow Chemical‚ and Rio Tinto top the list of what consumers may consider environmentally unfriendly
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Environmental Turmoil David Lepianka Saint Leo University Abstract The environment is fragile and forever-changing due to man’s interactions. Society has devised laws to help protect‚ restore‚ and ensure that the environment’s resources continue to exist for future generations. Corporations sometimes lose sight of these concepts and it is left to governmental agencies to enforce laws designed to protect the environment without bias or monetary incentives. Keywords: environment‚ ethical
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Homeland Security Integrative Project Leone‚ Tom-James June 11‚ 2013 Abstract Having well-developed protocols on issues of security‚ as well as utilizing such well-developed protocols as part of a strategy in attending to security issues‚ and periodically reviewing such utilized security protocols as time passes-by in order to increase efficiency is the most enduring way to keep enriching the practices of ‚ and in strengthening US homeland security. Due to lack of a single security
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Module Name: Oil & Gas Management Module Code: POG210 Module Leader: James Milne Student Full Name: Desmond Guy Harvest Student ID: 31661 Resit Assignment Essay Abstract: The intention of this Essay is to examine about sufficient understanding BP‚ which is one of the biggest well known since 1908. However the saddest oil spill disaster has taken way the life of 11 BP Employees‚ but it also made an impact in the environment such as ecosystem‚ the ocean’s suffer from oil covering bodies‚ and
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96.BP case study: An example of a TNC 1. Different stages in the company’s operations ● Use sophisticated technologies and triedtotrue techniques to find gas under the Earth’s surface ● use topographical maps‚ aerial photography‚ sound waves‚ 3D projections and other tools to help form an educated guess about the size‚ shape and consistency of the oil or natural gas that lies beneath the Earth. ● plan and build a production facility‚ taking environmental‚ social and logistical factors
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that British Petroleum (BP) faced since the oil spill accident happened in April‚ 2010. In addition‚ this thesis recommended possible solutions and implementation plans for BP to deal with the public crisis. On April 20‚ the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico led to the largest accidental release of oil into marine waters in history. As a result‚ a huge loss of money and life was caused and affected serious environmental damage to wild animals and water pollution
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BP plc[3][4] (LSE: BP‚ NYSE: BP) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London‚ United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by 2011 revenues and is one of the six oil and gas "supermajors".[5][6] It is vertically integrated and operates in all areas of the oil and gas industry‚ including exploration and production‚refining‚ distribution and marketing‚ petrochemicals‚ power generation and trading. It also has renewable
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Study Guide for Final Exam The final will be cumulative‚ although much of the test will focus somewhat more heavily on the material covered since the last midterm. There will be some questions that have been taken directly from the two earlier midterms. You’ll almost certainly recognize these questions; if you’ve reviewed the earlier exams with me in class (or in person) & know the answers to most or all of the questions‚ you’ll breeze through them. Read each question carefully‚ though‚ as
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FORCES IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PAPER 1. Define and describe the 5 2. 3. international environmental forces that impact international business (Ch 6-12 in your text). 2. Select a company (with the exception of Wal-Mart) that does business internationally and show how each of the 5 international environmental forces influence the behavior of the company. Analyze how well the strategies worked and what you would have done differently. 3. Discuss at least one ethical issue that the
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id=can-offshore-drilling-make-us-independent>. Nixon‚ Robin. "Oil Drilling: Risks and Rewards | LiveScience." Live Science. 25 June 2008. Web. 06 Feb. 2012. <http://www.livescience.com/4979-oil-drilling-risks-rewards.html>. Repanich‚ Jeremy. "BP Oil Spill Statistics - Deepwater Horizon Gulf Spill Numbers - Popular Mechanics." Popular Mechanics. 10 Aug. 2010. Web. 06 Feb. 2012. <http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/coal-oil-gas/bp-oil-spill-statistics>.
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