greenwashingweek
Communiqué de presse : EU Green Week disturbed by action group
PRESS RELEASE, 02 June 2010
EU Green Week disturbed by action group
Today, activists present at the European Commission’s Green Week in the Charlemagne building in Brussels, intervened in a part of the 2-day policy summit titled ‘Pricing the earth: How business can protect and profit from biodiversity’ organised by ‘Friends of Europe’, a corporate-sponsored think tank.
The activists, blowing whistles and shouting ‘Stop Greenwashing!’, spread out two red banners reading: ‘BP, Coca Cola and other criminals sponsor this event’ and ‘Green Week is as green as this banner’.
In this way, they are pointing out the fact that in the Green Week, some of the most dirty business (chemicals, oil, agrofuels, nuclear power), behind the smokescreen of a ‘think tank’, is given a high profile platform to influence the EU ‘environmental debate’. “So far, business has done nothing to protect, but everything to exploit biodiversity”, said one member of the action group. “In this session, Coca Cola is invited to speak on how consumers can be persuaded to bear the costs for conserving biodiversity, while this company is making profits from destroying it”.
Among the list of sponsors of the said ‘non-profit think tank’, one finds companies with an appauling record of environmental crimes, in the EU and worldwide; companies such as BP, which for over a month now has left the Gulf of Mexico and its biodiversity prey to the appetite of 1,000 barrels of oil per day; companies such as Coca Cola, which has been found guilty of sucking and polluting scarce water resources in the developing world, in order to ‘let our happiness grow’; companies such as UNICA, that promote the use of agrofuels to fuel European cars, while in Brazil land is taken from small farming systems and biodiverse ecosystems for sugar cane monocultures.
One member of the action group declared that this cosy marriage between the EU and corporate lobby groups should be broken. She added that, if we really want to protect biodiversity, we should start by ‘changing the capitalist system, and putting an end to its looting of natural resources and human lives in the name of exponential growth’
Pictures can be obtained from :http://www.demarche.org/greenwashingweek
Press contact : 0488/264,368
EU Green Week disturbed by action group
Today, activists present at the European Commission’s Green Week in the Charlemagne building in Brussels, intervened in a part of the 2-day policy summit titled ‘Pricing the earth: How business can protect and profit from biodiversity’ organised by ‘Friends of Europe’, a corporate-sponsored think tank.
The activists, blowing whistles and shouting ‘Stop Greenwashing!’, spread out two red banners reading: ‘BP, Coca Cola and other criminals sponsor this event’ and ‘Green Week is as green as this banner’.
In this way, they are pointing out the fact that in the Green Week, some of the most dirty business (chemicals, oil, agrofuels, nuclear power), behind the smokescreen of a ‘think tank’, is given a high profile platform to influence the EU ‘environmental debate’. “So far, business has done nothing to protect, but everything to exploit biodiversity”, said one member of the action group. “In this session, Coca Cola is invited to speak on how consumers can be persuaded to bear the costs for conserving biodiversity, while this company is making profits from destroying it”.
Among the list of sponsors of the said ‘non-profit think tank’, one finds companies with an appauling record of environmental crimes, in the EU and worldwide; companies such as BP, which for over a month now has left the Gulf of Mexico and its biodiversity prey to the appetite of 1,000 barrels of oil per day; companies such as Coca Cola, which has been found guilty of sucking and polluting scarce water resources in the developing world, in order to ‘let our happiness grow’; companies such as UNICA, that promote the use of agrofuels to fuel European cars, while in Brazil land is taken from small farming systems and biodiverse ecosystems for sugar cane monocultures.
One member of the action group declared that this cosy marriage between the EU and corporate lobby groups should be broken. She added that, if we really want to protect biodiversity, we should start by ‘changing the capitalist system, and putting an end to its looting of natural resources and human lives in the name of exponential growth’
Pictures can be obtained from :http://www.demarche.org/greenwashingweek
Press contact : 0488/264,368
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