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By Binsal Abdul Kader, Staff Reporter Published: 07:00 July 13, 2014 Abu Dhabi: Food waste adds pressure on the UAE's scarce water resources, according to a senior official of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). The article talks about food waste in the UAE and how it affects the current issue of water scarcity. Since production of food needs water, so when it goes to waste the water used to produce goes to waste. In addition to wasting of water, all natural resources used to grow, process, package, transport, and to market in goes to waste. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation representitive stated that more public awareness is needed to inform the population of water scarcity. In addition to that he informed up to 30 percent of natural resources and energy used to produce food is wasted along with the lost or wasted food. That tells us that more water is even wasted, while other countries suffer from starvation and lack of water. This article interested me as this is new information so I agree that public awarness should be increased as this is a huge issue.

A commodity boom has helped pull millions out of poverty across South America over the past decade. It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is accelerating deforestation and fueling a new wave of land conflicts from Colombia to Chile. The land and the forests are poorly regulated and protected leading to illegal plundering of resources which end up deteriorating and damaging the environment. This article is also a good example of negative externality of consumption and how demand can indirectly increase the damage inflicted on the environment. Since the amazon rainforest is only protected in some places and not in others (and the protected places are still open to the public), it is a common resource that is constantly being violated and reduced.

This article considers the impact on the ocean that we are causing by having is as a public good with public access.

This article discusses the negative externalities of smoking; or it's ability to inflict negative effects on others.

In the global context of a moderate and uneven economic recovery, sound management of public finances can secure elusive growth and jobs.

Puerto Rico's Senate is voting to increase tax on barrel of oil by 68% to increase govermnet revenue to $2.9 billion. In addition to that the excise tax will help solve the $73 billion in debt that most public coroporations are struggling to achieve as they are economically unstable at the moment. This is related to the topic of tax revenue and excise tax within this course

This article is about how basing the oil business around the idea of the planet is running out of oil concept was a huge mistake as oil prices crash like a plane on fire.

The article talks about one of the world's most tragic tragedy, which is "tragedy of the commons". This theory explores when a resource is available jointly, people often deplete these resources, rather than save them. To further support the theory, the article focuses mainly on "over-fishing" and how the ocean is a "common area", therefore anybody can choose to fish out there, and this leads to the problem of over-fishing and destroying the habitats of the high seas.

This article discuss that due to the melting of arctic ice and over exploitation of fish area known as dead zones are quickly spreading thereby deteriorating the 'common' high seas known to be economically beneficial to all.

This article talks about how our over dependence on the seas are affecting them and in turn affecting us. Since the seas are responsible for so much in human life, the deterioration of the seas could greatly affect different facets of human life such as climate among other things.

CALGARY, ALBERTA, Mar 02, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- TransCanada Corporation (TRP) (TransCanada) today announced that it has completed its public offering of cumulative redeemable first preferred shares, series 11 (the "Series 11 Preferred Shares"). TransCanada issued 10 million Series 11 Preferred Shares for aggregate gross proceeds of $250 million through a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Scotiabank and RBC Capital Markets.

RAMALLAH, February 22, 2015 (WAFA) - The West Bank overall economy has witnessed a decline in aggregate demand for the second consecutive month, mainly due to partial payment of public sector salaries, due to Israel's withholding of clearance revenues, according to the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA).

Our modern global economy struggles with the challenge of using limited natural resources without exhausting them. It seems difficult to keep the common privatised and put regulations so that they arent overused by the community. In addition to that it was mentioned that privatisation can lead to the destruction of local economies in some cases

This article is about the excise tax is coming in 2018.

This article talks about how large grocery retailers have had to postpone opening new supermarkets and might have to close down existing ones because of a decline in sales and decrease in income. Because general consumer income is spent less on food and increasingly on other goods like clothing, the quantity of food demanded by the public is going down and this fractional decrease is affecting the retailers.

NRG Energy, the largest public electricity provider in the US is facing trouble providing enough electricity to power grids because of coal shortage. Coal stockpiles have fallen by 28% and prices have risen by 5.8%. And because oils are becoming more dominant in rail way delivery, coal plants are struggling to stay in market.

This article provides information about the meaning and definition of Export Promotion: Export promotion has been defined as "those public policy measures which actually or potentially enhance exporting activity at the company, industry, or national level".