Corporate Accountability & the Johannesburg Earth Summit
   

· Earth Summit 101

· Corporate Failure Since Rio

· Six Reasons for Accountability

· Accountability vs Responsibility

· Rules for Big Business

· FoEI's Position Paper

· Type 2 Outcomes - Voluntary Partnerships

· The Bush Administration and the Earth Summit

Corporate Impacts Issue Briefs: Water, Biodiversity

Polluted Profits
· Bush's First Year in Office
· Environmental Rollbacks
· Accounting Tricks
· Corporate Veil of Secrecy
· Paying Polluters

Case Studies of
Corporate Irresponsibility

· AES
· Doe Run
· Enron
· ExxonMobil
· Monsanto
· Newmont
· Nike
· Unocal
· Suez-Lyonnaise
· Vivendi


Related Links
With over 100 people in Johannesburg, Friends of the Earth International will have one of the largest environmental delegations campaigning on corporate accountability, climate change, trade, biodiversity, water, environmental justice, mining and other issues.

Arrangements can be made to interview FoE campaigners in South Africa by contacting one of the below media contacts:

Mark Helm
Press Office
(202) 783-7400 x 102
mwhelm@foe.org

Colleen Freeman
International Programs
(202) 783-7400 x121
cfreeman@foe.org

Friends of the Earth International's Radio Earth Summit website - FoEI is collecting messages from people all over the world and will deliver these to governments in an art action entitled, "Hear Our Voice" at the Earth Summit.

Friends of the Earth International's Greenwash Awards website - The winners will be announced on the eve of the Johannesburg World Summit, on August 23rd, at a glittering ceremony at the Balalaika Hotel in Johannesburg.

Official United Nations website for the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Official South African website for the World Summit on Sustainable Development

People's Earth Summit - a parallel event to the official Earth Summit.

Civil Society Global Forum - a parallel event to the official Earth Summit.

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) - Producer of Earth Negotiations Bulletin - An invaluable website for authoritative and comprehensive daily updates, calendar of events of both official and parallel events.

International Right to Know Campaign - A coalition of environmental, labor, social justice and human rights organizations including Friends of the Earth, Amnesty International, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, EarthRights International, Oxfam America, Global Exchange, AFL-CIO, Lawyers Committee on Human Rights and Working Group on Community Right to Know have joined together to support an International Right to Know legislative proposal.

 
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