Climate Summit Coverage
Corporate Watch
GREENWASH AWARD
Shell: "Clouding the Issue"
http://www.corpwatch.org/greenwash/shell.html
Our latest Greenwash Award goes to Shell for its audacious ad claiming
that Shell is at the forefront of reducing harmful greenhouse gases.
Corporate Watch Greenwash Guru, Kenny Bruno, takes a deeper look and
finds that the company is full of hot air.
(Greenwashing refers to corporate public relations campaigns that
promote an eco-friendly image, when a company's practices are precisely
the opposite. Kenny Bruno is co-author of Greenwash: The Reality Behind
Corporate Environmentalism.)
CLIMATE JUSTICE
Climate Politics Come to The Hague
http://www.corpwatch.org/climate/athanasiou.html
As hundreds of delegates converge in The Hague for high level climate
change negotiations, author Tom Athanasiou asks whether they will look
at issues of global justice. He also has some suggestions on mechanisms
that might address global inequities. Anthanasiou is author of Divided
Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor.
CLIMATE JUSTICE
Corporation's Corrupt Climate Treaty
http://www.corpwatch.org/climate/weathergods.html
Corporate Europe Observatory investigates big business' influence behind
the international climate change summit underway in The Hague. They say
that rather than fight the Kyoto Protocol, corporations are offering
market "solutions" which render the treaty toothless.
(CEO is an Amsterdam-based organization that researches "the threats to
democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the
economic and political power of corporations.")
CLIMATE JUSTICE
Corporate Watch is in The Hague!
Corporate Watch is co-sponsoring the first ever Climate Justice Summit,
timed to coincide with the high level climate talks underway. This
summit puts a human face on global warming by providing the means for
people impacted by the oil industry to call for the changes necessary to
preserve both their communities and the entire Earth's ecological
stability.
It marks one of the first opportunities for community-based activists in
the U.S. fighting the fossil fuel industry to come together with some of
their counterparts from Asia, Africa and Latin America in the context of
the global warming issue.
Check back for Summit coverage. Meanwhile check out the schedule of
events:
http://www.corpwatch.org/climate/summit.html
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