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In the end, the campaign succeeded in shifting the public climate. President Clinton, the American Medical Association, the Surgeon General and the Federal Trade Commission all voiced their opposition to the tobacco giant’s use of Joe Camel.":1,"#In 1994, Corporate Accountability International organized the “Send Joe Camel Packing” campaign, exposing and challenging RJR’s use of a cartoon character aimed at attracting young customers. At the time, Joe Camel was even more recognized than Mickey Mouse!":1,"#RJR retires Joe Camel":1,"#July 11, 1997":1,"#todas las donaciones realizadas desde ahora hasta la medianoche del 31 de diciembre serán igualadas dólar por dólar, hasta un máximo de $100,000.":1,"#Ultimately, RJR was forced to retire the cartoon camel. Read more about our campaign to Challenge Big Tobacco.":1,"#RJR Nabisco responded by sending a letter to all retail outlets, warning them of the campaign. It even provided a toll-free number for retailers to call in reports of our campaign activities.":1,"#Algunos de los proyectos con mayor número de fallas fundamentales incluyen el proyecto Pacajai REDD+, ubicado en las afueras de Belém, brasil. Este proyecto fue el séptimo más grande en 2024 por número de créditos retirados.":1,"#¿por qué se sigue confiando en un mecanismo tan problemático y fundamentalmente defectuoso como el MVC 2.0 para que contribuya de manera significativa, urgente y permanente a la reducción de las emisiones globales de gases de efecto invernadero?":1,"#, aumentando la probabilidad de un fracaso global de la acción climática. Si bien puede haber avances derivados de las reformas al MVC, hasta ahora parecen ser limitados en alcance y potencial. Esto plantea una pregunta crítica:":1,"#Esta investigación sugiere que, a pesar de las reformas en curso, el":1,"#. Estos créditos fueron emitidos por 43 proyectos problemáticos, que por sí solos representan casi una cuarta parte de todos los créditos retirados en el MVC en 2024.":1,"#De los 47 proyectos incluidos en este análisis (todos entre los 100 proyectos más grandes a nivel global en 2024), el":1,"#. Este proyecto fue el séptimo más grande en 2024 por número de créditos retirados.":1,"#, ubicado en las afueras de":1,"#Algunos de los proyectos con mayor número de fallas fundamentales incluyen el":1,"#, revela que en 2024 el Mercado Voluntario de Carbono (MVC) parecía estar saturado con un gran volumen de proyectos y compensaciones que no podían considerarse fiables para cumplir con las reducciones de emisiones prometidas. A este tipo de proyectos y compensaciones nos referimos como “problemáticos”.":1,"#En contraste a este escenario, el nuevo informe":1,"#– La acción climática no debe fracasar. Debe existir una certeza absoluta de que las soluciones propuestas para resolver la crisis global más urgente funcionarán a la escala y en el plazo necesarios. Si fracasamos, las consecuencias serán millones y millones de vidas perdidas y decenas de billones de dólares en pérdidas cada año.":1,"#In the same realm, Wells Fargo has a history of being among the top sponsors, funders and board members for police foundations of multiple major cities, including sponsoring police foundations in Charlotte, Sacramento, and Seattle, Atlanta y Charlotte. Police foundations are private organizations dedicated to raising money for police departments as well as supplying them with weaponry and surveillance technology. Their private status enables these foundations to add millions of dollars to police budgets with very little public oversight or approval. Police foundations have been known to supply departments with K-9s and police horses, both used as a means to harm black people and protestors. The surveillance technology these foundations provide to police departments are highly controversial and disproportionately “tested and targeted in Black, Brown and Indigneous communities”. In response to the calls to defund the police that arose in the general public during Summer 2020, the police foundations for NYC, Washington D.C, Seattle and Philadelphia removed information on their websites regarding partner organizations and board members. A shameful act intended to limit the public’s knowledge and to protect donating corporations, like Wells Fargo, from public outrage. In this year of 2022, a senior leader from Wells Fargo is listed on the Atlanta Police Foundations’ Board of Trustees, giving ample reason to believe that their efforts to fund state-sanctioned violence against Black Americans isn’t stopping anytime soon.":1,"#While Wells Fargo was founded in 1852, it acquired Wachovia in 2008, thus intertwining itself with a very dark history. Wachovia was founded in 1879, descended from the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, the Bank of Charleston y Atlanta’s Fourth National Bank. All of these companies had deep ties to the mistreatment of black people. As part of their banking practices, the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company accepted slaves as collateral on mortaged properties or loans. They owned at least 162 slaves during their time. The Bank of Charleston had similar practices, accepting minimum 529 slaves as collateral for loans and mortagaged properties. When slaveowners defaulted on their payments, the Bank would seize ownership of some slaves.":1,"#SA":1,"#De los 47 proyectos incluidos en este análisis (todos entre los 100 proyectos más grandes a nivel global en 2024), el 80 % de los créditos retirados fueron problemáticos. Estos créditos fueron emitidos por 43 proyectos problemáticos, que por sí solos representan casi una cuarta parte de todos los créditos retirados en el MVC en 2024.":1,"#Algunos de los proyectos con mayor número de fallas fundamentales incluyen el proyecto Pacajai REDD+, ubicado en las afueras de Belém, Brasil. Este proyecto fue el séptimo más grande en 2024 por número de créditos retirados.":1,"#Nuevo reporte propone que los Mercados Voluntarios de Carbono estarían retrasando la acción climática en lugar de impulsarla - Corporate Accountability":1,"#En contraste a este escenario, el nuevo informe “¿Diseñado para fallar? Los mayores proyectos de compensación de carbono del mundo probablemente no entreguen las reducciones de emisiones prometidas a pesar de las reformas en curso”, revela que en 2024 el Mercado Voluntario de Carbono (MVC) parecía estar saturado con un gran volumen de proyectos y compensaciones que no podían considerarse fiables para cumplir con las reducciones de emisiones prometidas. A este tipo de proyectos y compensaciones nos referimos como “problemáticos”.":1,"#Fondo Bosques Tropicales para Siempre (Tropical Forests Forever Fund, TFFF)":1,"#Para entrevistas o información adicional, contactar a:
Adriana Ergueta
Responsable de Comunicaciones
América Latina y el Caribe
Corporate Accountability
[email protected]":1,"#Descarga el reporte completo en español":1,"#Esta investigación sugiere que, a pesar de las reformas en curso, el MVC 2.0 continúa fracasando en gran medida, aumentando la probabilidad de un fracaso global de la acción climática. Si bien puede haber avances derivados de las reformas al MVC, hasta ahora parecen ser limitados en alcance y potencial. Esto plantea una pregunta crítica: ¿por qué se sigue confiando en un mecanismo tan problemático y fundamentalmente defectuoso como el MVC 2.0 para que contribuya de manera significativa, urgente y permanente a la reducción de las emisiones globales de gases de efecto invernadero?":1,"#América Latina y el Caribe, noviembre de 2025.– La acción climática no debe fracasar. Debe existir una certeza absoluta de que las soluciones propuestas para resolver la crisis global más urgente funcionarán a la escala y en el plazo necesarios. Si fracasamos, las consecuencias serán millones y millones de vidas perdidas y decenas de billones de dólares en pérdidas cada año.":1,"#Nuevo reporte propone que los Mercados Voluntarios de Carbono estarían retrasando la acción climática en lugar de impulsarla":1,"#November 4, 2025":1,"#But while Wells Fargo paying reparations will help mitigate some of the harm done, the systems that allowed these actions to unfold must also change. Systemic harms also require systemic solutions, which is why Corporate Accountability supports H.R.40, the congressional bill to develop and implement a comprehensive study focused on “the effects of slavery…and recommend appropriate remedies including reparations”. Action at the national level is necessary to repair the historic crime of kidnapping and slavery, and the ongoing exploitation of Black Americans from the forced labor of the convict leasing and prison systems, and discriminatory mortgage lending policies. Please join us and our allies at the Instituto del Mundo Negro Siglo XXI in supporting H.R. 40 by calling on your congressional representatives to cosponsor this bill today! You can learn more about H.R.40 on the Congress website.":1,"#Not in nosotros?":1,"#Convened and supported by Corporate Accountability, this broad coalition — the Red para la Rendición de Cuentas de las Transnacionales del Tabaco (NATT) — was pivotal to the global tobacco treaty negotiations, helping galvanize a united front in securing the strongest possible treaty. It was also instrumental in closing dangerous loopholes the tobacco industry had fought to include.":1,"#Help us reach our $100,000 matching challenge goal before the December 31 deadline!":1,"#When you give right now, your gift will help build a future where democracy is protected, human rights are upheld, and the planet is safeguarded for generations to come.":1,"#Thanks to a generous group of donors, all gifts made from now until midnight on December 31 will be MATCHED dollar for dollar, up to $100,000.":1,"#Nearly all (or 93%) of the projects retiring problematic credits are located in the Global South, countries that have historically contributed the least to climate change. This includes five projects that are in Brazil, the upcoming host of the U.N climate talks later this year.":1,"#Eighty percent of the offsets assessed in this analysis were problematic.":1,"#More than 47.7 million problematic offsets credits were retired through 43 of the world’s largest offset projects in 2024, meaning they are not likely to lead to the promised emissions reductions. These 43 projects alone account for nearly one-quarter of the VCM.":1,"#The analysis underscores the inherently problematic nature of increasing corporate and governmental investment in a scheme that remains fundamentally flawed and which is likely to continue to fail to reduce carbon emissions, all while distracting from meaningful climate action and even likely causing harm. The researchers conducted analysis of data on AlliedOffsets database as well as from industry ratings agencies like BeZero, and revealed that many of the world’s largest offset projects in 2024 are unlikely to deliver global emissions reductions. Key findings include:":1,"#A carbon offset is an “allowance” that governments, institutions, and corporations—from fossil fuel majors and airlines to fast-food and tech giants—purchase from environmental projects to supposedly count towards their respective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Millions of these offset credits, which are linked up through a global carbon market called the VCM, are purchased by these actors annually and counted towards their emissions reductions, often in lieu of other emissions-reducing activities. Despite decades of failing to lead to global emissions reductions, the VCM remains one of the most widely supported forms of climate action, promoted by world governments, industry actors, corporations, and policymakers alike.":1,"#FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New analysis reveals how unsuccessful the “VCM 2.0” reform is to-date at plugging the failures of the voluntary carbon market and delivering global emissions reductions More than 47.7 million problematic offsets credits were retired through 43 of the world’s largest offset projects in 2024, representing nearly one-quarter of the entire voluntary carbon ...":1,"#New analysis reveals how unsuccessful the “VCM 2.0” reform is to-date at plugging the failures of the voluntary carbon market and delivering global emissions reductions - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Boston, Massachusetts – Today new research released by Corporate Accountability provides a deep dive into the largest carbon offset projects in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) in 2024, and explores how successful the “VCM 2.0” reform is to-date at improving the integrity of the voluntary carbon market, as well as whether it is any more likely to reduce global emissions.":1,"#More than 47.7 million problematic offsets credits were retired through 43 of the world’s largest offset projects in 2024, representing nearly one-quarter of the entire voluntary carbon market.":1,"#“The problem isn’t just one bad actor; it’s baked into the system even among those considered most reputable. And it is not limited to merely one actor or verifier in the carbon market ecosystem,” said Erika Lennon, Senior Attorney, Climate and Energy Program at Center for International Environmental Law. “With mounting evidence, it’s past time for major emitters to stop outsourcing their responsibility to the Global South and commit to a full fossil fuel phaseout – full stop, no loopholes. Clinging to carbon markets not only delays climate progress but also increases legal risks for companies betting on the credibility of these schemes instead of reducing their own emissions. Relying on and promoting offsets to address the climate crisis puts the planet’s and all its inhabitants’ future at risk and is as smart as relying on the arsonist to fight the fire.” ":1,"#The failures of the VCM are likely much more vast than this research reveals, given that this research only provides one snapshot of problematic projects and fundamental failures that are likely to be more prevalent across the VCM as a whole. This suggests that critical reflections need to happen on the legitimacy of the VCM more broadly.":1,"#According to Rachel Rose Jackson, Director of Climate Research & Policy at Corporate Accountability, “The latest evidence calls on policymakers as well as investors and supporters of carbon offsets to reckon with why such liability is being taken to continue to worship the voluntary carbon market, and for what real purpose—if it is not likely to lead to emissions reductions? Who is responsible for the repeated failures of the ‘checks and balances’ that are supposedly plugging the holes of this sinking ship? And why are we trying to solve a global crisis with a scheme that is yet again condemning the planet, not catalyzing the meaningful action urgently needed?”":1,"#The voluntary carbon market (VCM) has come under increased scrutiny thanks to multiple investigations by experts around the world revealing how these carbon trading schemes appear to give corporations cover to continue polluting while not actually reducing emissions, and even likely spurring significant harm. In 2023, a joint Guardian and Corporate Accountability investigation poked significant holes in carbon trading schemes seen to give permission to countries and corporations to continue burning fossil fuels.":1,"#“This research serves as an eleventh-hour warning for supporters and investors of carbon offsets and the carbon market,” said Meena Raman, Head of Programs at Third World Network. “The implications are clear—it’s time to shift away from carbon markets, which have failed to deliver emissions reductions for decades, and reinvest into proven solutions that permanently reduce emissions at source and justly address the root causes of climate change. These problematic offsets have no role in the climate action plans of countries or corporations. These pollution allowances have commodified the climate crisis and erased real action. As a result of these sham approaches, millions of lives are now being traded so polluters can profit.”":1,"#The research suggests that despite ongoing reforms, the VCM 2.0 continues to largely fail, enhancing the likelihood of global climate action failure. Any advances through this reform appear to be limited in scope and potential, posing the question of why VCM supporters and investors continue to take on the liability of such great risk, and who is liable for these failures.":1,"#All 37 projects assessed in greater detail had a legitimate risk of having at least one fundamental failing that rendered the projects unlikely to deliver—totaling nearly 40 million credits. These projects either had a legitimate or high risk of non-additionality (23), non-permanence (14), leakage (17), or over-credited (19).":1,"#Forestry and land use projects had the largest number of problematic projects (23), followed by renewable energy projects (15), household devise projects (4), and chemical processes/industrial manufacturing projects (1).":1,"#Yet the approval and promotion of problematic offsets unlikely to lead to emissions reductions spreads much further than Verra. Three other registries were involved in retiring problematic offsets from these projects, and at least 17 verifiers were involved in approving these problematic offsets for VCM trading, to then be purchased by VCM buyers all around the world.":1,"#Verra hosts the largest number of problematic projects and retired 43.6 million problematic offsets through the assessed projects, suggesting that its updated methodologies and measures taken to assure investors may not rectify the flaws.":1,"#casi 50 000 millones de dólares":1,"#The latest: Flint residents’ case against Veolia ends in settlement":1,"#The story of Veolia in Flint":1,"#The story of Veolia in Flint: From alleged corporate abuse to a $53 million settlement - Corporate Accountability":1,"#In the years since, Veolia has poured money into dubious PR efforts to distort and distract from the accusations related to its role in the crisis.":1,"#Veolia was brought in early during the crisis to assess Flint’s water system and failed to sound the alarm. After internally discussing the potential for lead contamination over email (which Corporate Accountability helped bring to light by digging through troves of court documents), Veolia told Flint residents their water was safe to drink. All the while, Veolia chased other lucrative contracts with the city.":1,"#To this day, Flint lacks reliable access to clean, drinking water – and a majority of residents still haven’t seen a penny of compensation from the legal settlements. Flint residents are still dealing with the long-term health impacts of the water contamination. Studies show that children who were exposed to lead during the crisis are more likely to experience learning delays. In general, lead exposure is also linked to the potential for early on-set dementia and higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease.":1,"#On April 25, 2014, Flint’s state-appointed emergency manager allowed the switch of Flint’s water supply, which occurred without treating the water to protect it from pipe corrosion. What followed was a series of government failures and corporate abuse that exacerbated this public health and human rights disaster.":1,"#Flint’s water crisis: What happened and what role did Veolia play?":1,"#As our Water Campaign Director, Neil Gupta, shared with reporters after Veolia’s settlement announcement, “With billionaire CEOs at the highest levels of government, it’s more important than ever that we safeguard our most precious resource, and keep our communities’ water under community control.”":1,"#Together, we can stop corporate abuse, keep our water systems under community control, and ensure that public dollars go directly towards fixing the issues that plague our water systems – addressing leaky pipes, keeping lead out of our water, and making rates affordable.":1,"#And it really is possible. Last year, we and our allies in Houston stopped a major water privatization threat by mobilizing a group of residents, environmental activists, and labor leaders, who called attention to the dangerous track record of the private water industry and voiced opposition to these plans at City Council. And by building powerful coalitions, public water advocates have won similar victories in cities across the U.S. like Providence, St. Louis, and Baltimore, and around the world like Lagos.":1,"#Yesterday, Veolia, the world’s largest private water corporation, held its annual shareholders’ meeting in Paris, celebrating its profit-making schemes that generated billions of euros in 2024. But of all the stories they shared in this meeting, there’s one that Veolia failed to include: that today marks the eleventh year since the start of the Flint water crisis. And while Veolia recently announced a settlement with residents, it still refused any legal admission of wrongdoing in Flint.":1,"#Third, we cannot allow Veolia to sweep its abuses under the rug. People and public officials need to know about the dangers of doing business with Veolia and other private water corporations. By taking action together, we can take on corporate giants and win.":1,"#Provide comprehensive healthcare and educational services for all those from the community.":1,"#Replace all damaged water service lines using Flint workers; and":1,"#Refund all bills residents paid since April 2014 till the water is deemed safe;":1,"#Second, we must listen to and mobilize to meet the needs of Flint residents. While Michigan has failed to meaningfully hold any of the government actors, such as Former Governor Rick Snyder, or corporations legally accountable for their role in the crisis, the state can take steps to rectify its mistakes by addressing community needs, including Flint Rising’s three demands to the state of Michigan:":1,"#First, Flint residents must receive their settlement funds swiftly so they can get the resources they need to deal with the impacts of the crisis. A vast majority still haven’t received a penny of settlement funds so far, including from the state of Michigan’s landmark $626 million settlement with residents. Recent reporting suggests that most residents will receive settlement checks this summer – over eleven years since the start of the crisis – with the highest payments going to child claimants who were aged 6 or under during the crisis and susceptible to developmental delays due to lead exposure.":1,"#Despite the limited progress, Flint residents march forward on their struggle for justice. And together, we must ensure the following:":1,"#Moving forward: Holding the private water industry accountable and preventing future harm":1,"#Across the globe, Veolia’s dangerous schemes have risked public access to clean and affordable water, one of our most essential resources. This story rings familiar for far too many. It is no coincidence that private water corporations often target cash-strapped cities to privatize water systems. And while private water corporations line their coffers with public dollars, all too often, communities pay the price through unaffordable water bills, job losses, and poorer quality service.":1,"#Plymouth, MA: Under Veolia’s operation of the city’s wastewater treatment system, over 10 million gallons of raw untreated sewage discharged in areas around Plymouth between December 2015 and January 2016.":1,"#Every person should have reliable access to safe, clean drinking water. But this is far from reality for too many across the globe due in large part to aging infrastructure, lack of public investment, and unchecked corporate greed.":1,"#Gabon: A typhoid outbreak occurred in 2004, during the time a Veolia subsidiary managed the water utility. Government officials also alleged “widespread supply cuts, bill irregularities, environmental hazards, and unkept commitments” under Veolia’s management, and ultimately the State decided to discontinue its contract with the Veolia-controlled utility.":1,"#Pittsburgh, PA: Under Veolia’s management, the city’s water authority switched a corrosion control chemical to a cheaper alternative, without the required state approval, and miscalculation related to chemicals used potentially led to a crisis that soon followed.":1,"#In recent years, Veolia has faced lawsuits in Buffalo, where residents sued the corporation and the city for violating constitutional rights by depriving customers of fluoridated drinking water, and in Southwest San Diego County, where residents sued Veolia for alleged improper wastewater treatment. But some of the worst cases include:":1,"#The particular dynamics of Flint’s story are unique to the city, but its experience of the private water industry is not unusual. In fact, other communities in the U.S. and around the world have similarly faced the dangerous consequences of private water schemes.":1,"#Veolia’s track record: Private water schemes impact communities from Pittsburgh to Gabon":1,"#And Nayyirah’s right: the financial compensation does not make up for Veolia’s failure to sound the alarm about Flint’s water. Though the settlement amount may seem significant, Veolia is actually paying a meager amount – only about 0.1% of the nearly $50 billion in revenue that it raked from its business across the globe last year. Without accounting for attorneys’ fees, this settlement would amount to about $2,000 per claimant from the corporation. Veolia also refused any legal admission of wrongdoing, noting in a press release that “[t]his final settlement is in no way an admission of responsibility…” This means there’s hardly anything barring it from doing the same to other communities.":1,"#Reflecting on the outcome of the lawsuits, Nayyirah Shariff, Executive Director of Flint Rising, put it succinctly: “The fact that our community members could force Veolia to settle is a testament to their determination and the strength of their case. However, this settlement cannot undo Veolia’s abuses in Flint.”":1,"#For years, Flint residents have sued the government and corporate actors that played a role in this crisis. And Flint Rising, a local grassroots group, has called for federal action to advocate for infrastructure funding and updated environmental regulations, organized in solidarity with other communities facing water injustices, and connected the dots between Veolia’s actions in Flint to Pittsburgh, Nigeria, and beyond.":1,"#But what does this mean for Flint residents and other communities impacted by Veolia?":1,"#Eleven years on, the legal battles have started to come to a close. In February 2025, Veolia announced a settlement with about 26,000 Flint residents for $53 million. In exchange, the state agreed to drop its separate case against Veolia.":1,"#By Anahad O’Connor, The New York Times. The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show. The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday ...":1,"#The New York Times: How the sugar industry shifted blame to fat - Corporate Accountability":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Cholesterol.":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Carbohydrates.":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Coronary heart disease.":1,"#The editorial.":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Dental cavities.":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Obesity.":1,"#Times article.":1,"#The article.":1,"#JAMA article.":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Fat.":1,"#Photo credit: iStock":1,"#“By today’s standards, they behaved very badly,” he said.":1,"#After the review was published, the debate about sugar and heart disease died down, while low-fat diets gained the endorsement of many health authorities, Dr. Glantz said.":1,"#“Let me assure you this is quite what we had in mind, and we look forward to its appearance in print,” Mr. Hickson wrote.":1,"#As they worked on their review, the Harvard researchers shared and discussed early drafts with Mr. Hickson, who responded that he was pleased with what they were writing. The Harvard scientists had dismissed the data on sugar as weak and given far more credence to the data implicating saturated fat.":1,"#Harvard’s Dr. Hegsted reassured the sugar executives. “We are well aware of your particular interest,” he wrote, “and will cover this as well as we can.”":1,"#In 1965, Mr. Hickson enlisted the Harvard researchers to write a review that would debunk the anti-sugar studies. He paid them a total of $6,500, the equivalent of $49,000 today. Mr. Hickson selected the papers for them to review and made it clear he wanted the result to favor sugar.":1,"#Mr. Hickson proposed countering the alarming findings on sugar with industry-funded research. “Then we can publish the data and refute our detractors,” he wrote.":1,"#At the time, studies had begun pointing to a relationship between high-sugar diets and the country’s high rates of heart disease. At the same time, other scientists, including the prominent Minnesota physiologist Ancel Keys, were investigating a competing theory that it was saturated fat and dietary cholesterol that posed the biggest risk for heart disease.":1,"#The documents show that in 1964, John Hickson, a top sugar industry executive, discussed a plan with others in the industry to shift public opinion “through our research and information and legislative programs.”":1,"#The JAMA Internal Medicine paper relied on thousands of pages of correspondence and other documents that Cristin E. Kearns, a postdoctoral fellow at U.C.S.F., discovered in archives at Harvard, the University of Illinois and other libraries.":1,"#Dr. Willett said the researchers had limited data to assess the relative risks of sugar and fat. “Given the data that we have today, we have shown the refined carbohydrates and especially sugar-sweetened beverages are risk factors for cardiovascular disease, but that the type of dietary fat is also very important,” he said.":1,"#Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, said that academic conflict-of-interest rules had changed significantly since the 1960s, but that the industry papers were a reminder of “why research should be supported by public funding rather than depending on industry funding.”":1,"#“I think it’s appalling,” she said. “You just never see examples that are this blatant.”":1,"#Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided “compelling evidence” that the sugar industry had initiated research “expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.”":1,"#Dr. Hegsted used his research to influence the government’s dietary recommendations, which emphasized saturated fat as a driver of heart disease while largely characterizing sugar as empty calories linked to tooth decay. Today, the saturated fat warnings remain a cornerstone of the government’s dietary guidelines, though in recent years the American Heart Association, the World Health Organization and other health authorities have also begun to warn that too much added sugar may increase cardiovascular disease risk.":1,"#“It was a very smart thing the sugar industry did, because review papers, especially if you get them published in a very prominent journal, tend to shape the overall scientific discussion,” he said.":1,"#The revelations are important because the debate about the relative harms of sugar and saturated fat continues today, Dr. Glantz said. For many decades, health officials encouraged Americans to reduce their fat intake, which led many people to consume low-fat, high-sugar foods that some experts now blame for fueling the obesity crisis.":1,"#The industry “should have exercised greater transparency in all of its research activities,” the Sugar Association statement said. Even so, it defended industry-funded research as playing an important and informative role in scientific debate. It said that several decades of research had concluded that sugar “does not have a unique role in heart disease.”":1,"#In a statement responding to the JAMA journal report, the Sugar Association said that the 1967 review was published at a time when medical journals did not typically require researchers to disclose funding sources. The New England Journal of Medicine did not begin to require financial disclosures until 1984.":1,"#The Harvard scientists and the sugar executives with whom they collaborated are no longer alive. One of the scientists who was paid by the sugar industry was D. Mark Hegsted, who went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where in 1977 he helped draft the forerunner to the federal government’s dietary guidelines. Another was Dr. Fredrick J. Stare, the chairman of Harvard’s nutrition department.":1,"#Last year, an article in The New York Times revealed that Coca-Cola, the world’s largest producer of sugary beverages, had provided millions of dollars in funding to researchers who sought to play down the link between sugary drinks and obesity. In June, The Associated Press reported that candy makers were funding studies that claimed that children who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who do not.":1,"#Even though the influence-peddling revealed in the documents dates back nearly 50 years, more recent reports show that the food industry has continued to influence nutrition science.":1,"#The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today’s dollars to publish a 1967 review of research on sugar, fat and heart disease. The studies used in the review were handpicked by the sugar group, and the article, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, minimized the link between sugar and heart health and cast aspersions on the role of saturated fat.":1,"#“They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades,” said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. and an author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper.":1,"#The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease, including many of today’s dietary recommendations, may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.":1,"#The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.":1,"#By Anahad O’Connor, The New York Times.":1,"#The New York Times: How the sugar industry shifted blame to fat":1,"#September 12, 2017":1,"#Read the executive summary.":1,"#In November 2017, during one of the most unprecedented periods of climate-related extreme weather events and humanitarian crises, governments will once again gather in Bonn, Germany, for the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). High on government’s list will be to discuss the procedures that will guide the implementation of the Paris Agreement. If the world is to avoid the worst of the climate crisis and keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and well below 2 degrees, Parties must agree to real, just, and sustainable solutions, and reject the false solutions peddled by the world’s dirtiest polluters and their proxies (including obstructionist governments and industry trade groups).":1,"#Read the report from Corporate Accountability and allies on the Global North's interference at the U.N. climate negotiations.":1,"#From Colombia a Australia a Kenya, countries around the world are implementing powerful measures to protect public health, in keeping with the global tobacco treaty.":1,"#FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE":1,"#New analysis reveals how unsuccessful the “VCM 2.0” reform is to-date at plugging the failures of the voluntary carbon market and delivering global emissions reductions":1,"#Not in NG?":1,"#Polluting Paris: How Big Polluters are undermining global climate policy - Corporate Accountability":1,"#More than ten years after the Flint water crisis, Veolia still refuses to admit the role the corporation played in not sounding the alarm.":1,"#June 24, 2025":1,"#“Los gobiernos pueden y deben poner fin a la interferencia de la industria tabacalera. El tratado mundial sobre el control de tabaco no es sólo un documento que los países pueden firmar y guardar en un cajón. Es una hoja de ruta para salvar vidas, que empieza por impedir que la industria tabacalera manipule a las personas y las políticas. Los países tienen el mapa, sólo tienen que seguirlo”, dijo Laura Salgado, responsable de campañas y alianzas de GGTC.":1,"#Para más información o para hablar con un portavoz del índice regional de Interferencia, póngase en contacto con media@corporateaccountability.org.":1,"#Este reporte (tercero en su serie), muestra una tendencia al empeoramiento de la situación regional, denotando un aumento en la influencia de estas poderosas corporaciones en los gobiernos de la región, lo que obstaculiza los esfuerzos que se han destinado a reducir el consumo de tabaco y responsabilizar jurídicamente a la industria tabacalera de los daños causados. Todos los países analizados muestran algún grado de interferencia, sobresaliendo las acciones de cabildeo o lobby, financiación de estudios científicos, aportaciones a campañas políticas, reclutamiento de altos funcionarios gubernamentales e impulso de iniciativas de “responsabilidad social corporativa o empresarial” como las campañas de limpieza de colillas.":1,"#La industria tabacalera utiliza las mismas estrategias de marketing en toda la región con el objetivo de vender sus productos, principalmente el cigarrillo que mata a más de la mitad de sus consumidores. Para conocer más sobre esta situación, puede consultarse el análisis que reposa en el Índice Regional de Interferencia de la Industria Tabacalera (2023), un documento elaborado por Corporate Accountability y el Centro Global para la Buena Gobernanza en el Control del Tabaco (GGTC por sus siglas en inglés), que recaba información proporcionada por la sociedad civil sin conflicto de interés de 19 países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre la interferencia de la industria tabacalera.":1,"#En el video los representantes de organizaciones de Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, México, Paraguay, Perú, República Dominicana, Uruguay y Venezuela evidencian cómo la industria ha interferido para detener políticas públicas en materia de control del tabaco en estos países y de sus estrategias para atraer a las infancias y la adolescencia al tabaquismo.":1,"#América Latina y el Caribe (23 de julio de 2024) – Representantes de organizaciones de América Latina y el Caribe lanzaron un video en donde denuncian la interferencia de la industria tabacalera en sus países y piden a sus gobiernos proteger a las infancias y la adolescencia de esta industria.":1,"#La industria tabacalera utiliza las mismas estrategias de marketing en toda la región con el objetivo de vender un producto como el cigarrillo que mata a más de la mitad de sus consumidores, este análisis puede consultarse en el Índice Regional de Interferencia de la Industria Tabacalera.":1,"#Note de prensa: Organizaciones de América Latina y el Caribe denuncian interferencia de la industria tabacalera en sus países - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Philippines:
Filipino advocates rallied support to incorporate Article 5.3 guidelines into a national policy. Passed in 2010, the policy instructs government officials to not partner with, endorse, or promote the tobacco industry and its interests. It is one of the strongest examples of implementation and enforcement of Article 5.3 through national law.":1,"#Join the call to make Big Tobacco pay for its harms on people’s health and the planet. Aprende más about how together, we can make the industry pay for the costs of its deadly products.":1,"#Kenya:
Kenya has passed multiple public health protections to implement Article 5.3 and other tobacco control measures: the Tobacco Control Act (2007) and Regulations (2014). While British American Tobacco has been using legal tactics to delay implementation of these laws, they nevertheless provide a model for other African governments to advance similar policies.":1,"#Colombia:
Colombia catapulted to the forefront of tobacco control in Latin America when it passed a strong national bill in 2009. Backed by Article 5.3, Colombia’s Congress removed industry representatives from the negotiating table during the development of the bill. Without Big Tobacco in the room, Congress could include a ban on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship; a requirement for graphic health warning labels; a requirement for ingredients disclosure; and a ban on individual cigarette sales.":1,"#But the human toll of Big Tobacco’s drive to addict new customers is still staggering. Every year, more than eight million people die from tobacco-related diseases.":1,"#The story of Veolia in Flint: From alleged corporate abuse to a $53 million settlement":1,"#April 25, 2025":1,"#Un nuevo video expone las tácticas de marketing de las grandes tabacaleras en toda la región":1,"#Note de prensa: Organizaciones de América Latina y el Caribe denuncian interferencia de la industria tabacalera en sus países":1,"#Más de":1,"#Belém":1,"#In the past, BlackRock has tried to distance itself from the gun industry and the violence it perpetuates. For example, in response to the Parkland mass shooting in 2018, where the shooter used a Smith & Wesson rifle, BlackRock issued a statement that announced an internal policy change to allow clients to choose not to invest in gun manufacturers or retailers, as well as a statement claiming that it would “[engage] with firearms manufacturers and retailers in which our clients are invested regarding business policies and practices.”":1,"#As we reported earlier this month, BlackRock is the largest shareholder in weapons manufacturer Sturm, Ruger, & Company, owning 15.9% of shares, worth nearly $200 million. According to reports out of Palestine, the gun used to kill Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was a Sturm Ruger Mini-semi automatic 14 rifle.":1,"#BlackRock is also the largest investor in gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson, with an 8.3% stake in the company. Smith & Wesson guns or ammunition are used in the police departments in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit, and Chicago. The company also makes assault weapons and restraints marketed and sold to police departments.":1,"#In addition, Wells Fargo has consistently shown that it has no reservations about targeting its Black patrons with predatory schemes. Their discriminatory practices against Black homebuyers have failed to shift, prompting the city government of New York City to divest from opening any new accounts with Wells Fargo in April 2022. This is noteworthy given that in the midst of the wave of racial reckoning that swept the nation in the summer of 2020, Wells Fargo CEO and President Charlie W. Scharf issued 5 major commitments in the realms of representation, compensation, diversity role reporting, education session and anti-racism manager training. From doubling black leadership, to establishing positions to drive diversity and inclusion, it seemed to be an ambitious plan. But with Wells Fargo still facing discrimintation lawsuits and government divestments in 2021 and 2022, these statements have proved to be nothing more than an attempt to save face in the eyes of the public. It is worth noting that the pledges from Scharf and Wells Fargo were made on already shaky grounds; Scharf chalked up the scarcity of Black employees at the company to “a very limited pool of Black talent to recruit from” in a virtual meeting, followed by a June 2020 company-wide memo. This statement drew criticism from U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill, among others, but more importantly, it drew attention to Wells Fargo’s dismal record in the Black community.":1,"#In the same realm, Wells Fargo has a history of being among the top sponsors, funders and board members for police foundations of multiple major cities, including sponsoring police foundations in Charlotte, Sacramento, and Seattle, Atlanta and Charlotte. Police foundations are private organizations dedicated to raising money for police departments as well as supplying them with weaponry and surveillance technology. Their private status enables these foundations to add millions of dollars to police budgets with very little public oversight or approval. Police foundations have been known to supply departments with K-9s and police horses, both used as a means to harm black people and protestors. The surveillance technology these foundations provide to police departments are highly controversial and disproportionately “tested and targeted in Black, Brown and Indigneous communities”. In response to the calls to defund the police that arose in the general public during Summer 2020, the police foundations for NYC, Washington D.C, Seattle and Philadelphia removed information on their websites regarding partner organizations and board members. A shameful act intended to limit the public’s knowledge and to protect donating corporations, like Wells Fargo, from public outrage. In this year of 2022, a senior leader from Wells Fargo is listed on the Atlanta Police Foundations’ Board of Trustees, giving ample reason to believe that their efforts to fund state-sanctioned violence against Black Americans isn’t stopping anytime soon.":1,"#What’s the significance of this? Core Civic and GEO Group are corporations which profit from and perpetuate the imprisonment and modern day enslavement of Black Americans. In 2019, Wells Fargo succumbed to the mounting public pressure of prison divestment campaigns by stating it was exiting the credit agreement with Core Civic and phasing out of its partnership with GEO Group. This was a significant win for the organizers involved with these campaigns. But as of December 2021, Wells Fargo still held over a hundred thousand shares total in these private prison companies.":1,"#A federal investigation found that from 2004 to 2009, Wells Fargo harmed Black and Hispanic communities through engaging in discriminatory lending practices against 30,000 Black and Hispanic borrowers. This ultimately resulted in Wells Fargo paying over $175 million in a 2011 settlement with the United States Justice Department. But the same year of their discrimination settlement, Wells Fargo became the second largest investor in GEO Group, a leading private prison corporation, with 4.3 million shares in the company. Just one year later, Wells Fargo was named as the issuing lender on a $785 million line of credit for CCA, another leading private prison corporation presently known as Core Civic, and was also named as the trustee for a $300 million GEO Group bond. Not only did Wells Fargo learn nothing from its discriminatory lending lawsuit, it proceeded to bankroll the two leading corporations perpetuating modern-day enslavement of Black Americans through the private prison system. The chart featured in a report by In the Public Interest outlines the history between these private prison operators and Wells Fargo in more detail.":1,"#Atlanta’s Fourth National Bank was founded by former Mayor of Atlanta, James English, through the profits he generated from his company, the Chattahoochee Brick Company. By 1897, English leased at least 1,206 Black convicts in Georgia to labor for his businesses, including the Chattahoochee Brick Company. The conditions were abysmal, with historian Douglas Blackmon describing the company as a “death camp” for the majority Black convicts. When Wells Fargo acquired Wachovia, it made no apology for how Wachovia generated its wealth, in part, through slavery or convict labor. The past of Wachovia and Wells Fargo inform their present day practices, which build on this history of discrimination and harm through modern channels.":1,"#While Wells Fargo was founded in 1852, it acquired Wachovia in 2008, thus intertwining itself with a very dark history. Wachovia was founded in 1879, descended from the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, the Bank of Charleston and Atlanta’s Fourth National Bank. All of these companies had deep ties to the mistreatment of black people. As part of their banking practices, the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company accepted slaves as collateral on mortaged properties or loans. They owned at least 162 slaves during their time. The Bank of Charleston had similar practices, accepting minimum 529 slaves as collateral for loans and mortagaged properties. When slaveowners defaulted on their payments, the Bank would seize ownership of some slaves.":1,"#Each June, Black Americans commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people on Juneteenth. On the 19th of June in 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to free the last slaves, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. This holiday holds deep significance for Black Americans as a celebration of liberation. In the years following emancipation, the so-called “owners” of captive slaves were compensated for their loss. Meanwhile, those whose forced labor built the wealth of this nation were never repaid and were, in fact, systemically harmed by those who profited in the wake of emancipation. The effects of this failure to redistribute wealth are felt to this day and have contributed greatly to current racial inequities. It’s time for those who profited from the suffering of black people to pay reparations, including Wells Fargo.":1,"#Check out a visual representation of the racist history of Wells Fargo, along with the actions organizers are taking to demand reparations, in the Roadmap to Reparations, a beautiful timeline illustrated by Paloma Rae.":1,"#But while Wells Fargo paying reparations will help mitigate some of the harm done, the systems that allowed these actions to unfold must also change. Systemic harms also require systemic solutions, which is why Corporate Accountability supports H.R.40, the congressional bill to develop and implement a comprehensive study focused on “the effects of slavery…and recommend appropriate remedies including reparations”. Action at the national level is necessary to repair the historic crime of kidnapping and slavery, and the ongoing exploitation of Black Americans from the forced labor of the convict leasing and prison systems, and discriminatory mortgage lending policies. Please join us and our allies at the Institute of the Black World 21st Century in supporting H.R. 40 by calling on your congressional representatives to cosponsor this bill today! You can learn more about H.R.40 on the Congress website.":1,"#Given all their wrongdoings, the only option is for Wells Fargo to use their billions of dollars to make restitution to all the Black people they exploited to become the financial powerhouse they are and all the Black lives they continue to profit off of to maintain their standing. There are incredible organizers applying pressure for Wells Fargo to resolve their past grievances and others who work on helping the average consumer find alternative banking methods.":1,"#The superficial nature of Wells Fargo’s PR response was revealed early last year when they asked shareholders to vote no on racial equity resolutions: “In recent days, they [Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JP Morgan Chase] have all officially opposed shareholder groups’ calls for them to conduct and publicize racial-equity audits and other changes, saying they are already doing enough to address equity issues” . Wells Fargo’s actions as of late, with its relationship with the Black community hanging on a tightrope, have only exacerbated the problem. A lawsuit filed on March 18 in a San Francisco federal court, argues that Wells Fargo’s practices push Black homeowners into foreclosure, which Bloomberg referred to as a modern form of redlining. Bloomberg published an article only a week earlier detailing how Wells Fargo, the largest bank mortgage lender in the country, accepted less than half of Black mortgage refinancing applicants in 2020. Seventy-two percent of White refinancing applicants were approved, compared to just forty-seven percent of Black applicants, per Bloomberg’s analysis and as visualized below. Most recently, Wells Fargo was accused of conducting “fake interviews” of diverse candidates for positions that were already filled, in a bid to boost diversity efforts on paper. Wells Fargo’s overtly discriminatory practices are a blatant indication that its claims of having a “watershed moment” during the height of Black Lives Matter protests was a lie. Simply put, since its acquisition of Wachovia, Wells Fargo continues to utilize its financial power to uphold the institutions that directly threaten the wellbeing of Black Americans, in a bid to prioritize its own financial gain.":1,"#July 24, 2024":1,"#, como la":1,"#Polluting Paris: How Big Polluters are undermining global climate policy":1,"#Daniel Dorado, Director de la Campaña Control de Tabaco de Corporate Accountability, dijo: “Esta contundente declaración, de un número tan grande de comunidades latinoamericanas y del caribe destaca la importancia de que las personas se unan para resistir las siniestras estrategias de marketing, políticas y de salud pública que las grandes tabacaleras tratan de emplear para aumentar sus beneficios mientras ponen en riesgo, a sabiendas, la salud y la vida de muchos, y especialmente de las generaciones futuras. No nos callaremos ni permitiremos que las corporaciones interfieran en nuestro derecho a la elaboración de políticas de salud pública libres de la interferencia de la industria tabacalera para la salud de nuestros países, ni permitiremos que sigan atrayendo a las generaciones futuras a productos que matan”.":1,"#América Latina y el Caribe (23 de julio de 2024) –":1,"#Organizaciones de América Latina y el Caribe denuncian interferencia de la industria tabacalera en sus países":1,"#Representantes de organizaciones de América Latina y el Caribe lanzaron un video en donde denuncian la interferencia de la industria tabacalera.":1,"#The World Health Organization (WHO) publicly rebuffed the foundation’s request for partnership. Prominent universities and institutions have turned their backs on its funding. And more than 100 public health organizations have taken action to condemn the foundation.":1,"#Our tobacco campaign challenges the expansion of tobacco corporations like Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco, whose products kill millions of people each year. We are making the industry pay for its abuses and preventing it from derailing international lifesaving laws. And in the process, we are setting precedents for reining in other deadly industries, from Big Oil to Big Food. Read more:":1,"#If you’re a government official, read about tobacco industry interference in public health policy in the Guardian y Reuters. Then pledge to protect the Conference of Parties from tobacco industry interference by contacting us at FCTC@corporateaccountability.org.":1,"#In close partnership with allies and governments in the Global South, we advanced the unanimous adoption y rapid ratification of the global tobacco treaty, the first global public health and corporate accountability treaty. The treaty protects nearly 90 percent of the world’s population.":1,"#formulario de cancelación de suscripción de correo electrónico.":1,"#Philip Morris International was forced to change its name to Altria in 2003 given the shift in public climate that we helped create.":1,"#But the public health community has resoundingly rejected this attempt to undermine the collective progress we’ve made. The decades of global campaigning to expose Big Tobacco’s deceitful tactics enabled organizations and institutions to see through this latest scheme.":1,"#In 2017 PMI launched what it called the “Foundation for a Smoke-Free World.” While the name sounds promising, in truth, this is just another ploy by PMI to undermine public health.":1,"#It is a thinly veiled attempt to gain access to governmental and academic institutions, such as the WHO; drive a wedge in the public health community; and present itself as the solution to the very crises it drives. PMI continues to be the sole funder of this entity — a claim counter to assurances the foundation made when it launched that it would not be an entirely PMI-funded endeavor.":1,"#Precedent-setting campaign":1,"#Because the world’s greatest preventable epidemic of death and disease is wholly driven by an industry with deeper coffers than many of the countries in which it operates, we continue our coordinated, global campaign.":1,"#Now, the tobacco industry is using its tried-and-true tactics to push new tobacco products in countries where smoking rates are dropping. And it is continuing its aggressive marketing of all tobacco products — old and new — in what it sees as “expansion markets”: mostly countries in the Global South. For example, Big Tobacco targets middle-class women in the Philippines or children in Colombia who can buy single cigarettes from street vendors. In Indonesia in 2019, Philip Morris International (PMI) launched a new cigarette, “Philip Morris Bold”: a deadly high-tar, high-nicotine clove product. That’s why activists from across the Global South are leading the way in reining in the tobacco industry. And it’s why we have been organizing shoulder to shoulder with them for almost 20 years.":1,"#Decades later, thanks to the campaigning of Corporate Accountability and allied organizations, those lies have been exposed. The tobacco industry’s influence in the United States has been diminished. Tobacco corporations can no longer splash sexy ads across billboards and magazine back covers. Youth-targeted marketing like Joe Camel has been retired. And a vast majority of establishments are now smoke-free.":1,"#In 1994, seven CEOs of the largest tobacco corporations stood before Congress under the hot glare of TV cameras and the intense scrutiny of the U.S. public. One executive after another swore they didn’t believe nicotine was addictive.":1,"#Tobacco still a deadly killer":1,"#Philip Morris International attempts to infiltrate the public health community":1,"#All seven were lying.":1,"#The lifesaving power of international law":1,"#Just a few examples of insulating public health policy from industry interference include:":1,"#Corporate Accountability, in partnership with our allies around the world, are demanding that PMI shut down this marketing ploy dressed up as a foundation — and pay up for the decades of harm associated with its deadly products. Join us!":1,"#Making Big Tobacco pay":1,"#Corporate Accountability organizers at COP 6.":1,"#In 1999, just three years after we set out to “Send Joe Camel Packing,” RJR Nabisco pulled its ads featuring the iconic cartoon camel.":1,"#Article 19 is another precedent-setting corporate accountability provision of the global tobacco treaty, designed to make Big Tobacco pay for the harms its products cause. It provides guidance for governments around the world on how to take Big Tobacco to court.":1,"#“Litigation has played a key role in turning the American public and public policy against the tobacco industry, by exposing its misdeeds and raising the cost of its products. Article 19 will enable governments and activists throughout the world to use this powerful weapon to tame this rogue and deadly industry.”":1,"#We challenge the tobacco corporations seeking to derail lifesaving public health policy.":1,"#Our climate campaign builds on many of the breakthroughs we have achieved through the tobacco campaign. In our campaign to kick Big Polluters out of climate policy, we are building on the precedent we set in securing Article 5.3 of the global tobacco treaty. And we are building on the potential of Article 19 of the global tobacco treaty in our initiative to make Big Polluters pay for their role in creating the climate crisis.":1,"#Today, more than 180 Parties have ratified the global tobacco treaty. That means this groundbreaking public health and corporate accountability treaty covers nearly 90 percent of the world’s people.":1,"#“From the start, Corporate Accountability has played a vital role in challenging tobacco industry interference, one of the greatest threats to the implementation of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.”":1,"#The global tobacco treaty (formally known as the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) was created to do just that. We waged a global and historic campaign to secure this treaty with government leaders from across the Global South and a global coalition of human rights, environmental, faith-based, and public health organizations. Adopted in 2003, it is the first legally binding treaty of the WHO.":1,"#If you are a policymaker interested in implementing Article 5.3 measures in your country, download this roadmap on how to protect public health policy from Big Tobacco.":1,"#– Richard Daynard, university distinguished professor of law, Northeastern University":1,"#Article 5.3 establishes the tobacco industry’s irreconcilable conflict of interest with public health and requires governments to protect their policies from industry interference. The article provides a tool for governments and activists to prevent Big Tobacco from undermining, delaying, and watering down tobacco control policies at every turn.":1,"#Because trade agreements are one of the lead ways that the tobacco industry tries to sabotage public health law, we organize to ensure the defeat of trade agreements that put corporate interests over people and the planet. We were part of the coalition that helped defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2016. Today, we are taking action to ensure people’s lives, well being, and the environment are prioritized over corporate interests when it comes to renegotiating North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Join the call.":1,"#To rein in the massive and global power of Big Tobacco, we must prevent the industry from operating with impunity across borders.":1,"#Trade":1,"#As an accredited observer to the treaty’s governing body, Corporate Accountability and NATT play a focused role in supporting governments to keep the industry out of the meetings and accelerate implementation of the treaty’s most powerful measures.":1,"#The global tobacco treaty affirms the priority of health over trade and commercial interests. We are building on this principle as we work in coalition with allies around the world to stop pro-corporate trade deals that threaten people and our planet.":1,"#The tobacco campaign sets important precedents for reining in other deadly industries that threaten our lives and planet.":1,"#We organize with governments from around the world to rein in Big Tobacco.":1,"#The backbone of the global tobacco treaty":1,"#We are working with governments, legal experts, and public health advocates around the world to advance Article 19. Together, we will ensure governments have the tools to hold the tobacco industry liable.":1,"#– Dr. Douglas W. Bettcher, director, prevention of noncommunicable diseases, World Health Organization (WHO)":1,"#In 1997, our boycott exposed the truth behind RJR Nabisco.":1,"#Read more about our approach to organizing with allies.":1,"#Today, NATT and Corporate Accountability partner to advance the lifesaving implementation of treaty measures around the world. For example, our partnership with our allies at Consumer Information Network in Kenya helped move the government to investigate British American Tobacco for bribing policymakers to water down public health law. As a result, Kenya passed one of the strongest anti-bribery laws in Africa.":1,"#Just as the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement changed the landscape for Big Tobacco in the United States, Article 19 has the potential to change the landscape for the industry worldwide. In part because Big Tobacco is currently not held liable for the health care costs of the more than 7 million people who die from tobacco-related diseases every year, the tobacco industry continues to be enormously profitable. The top five transnational tobacco corporations raked in $35 billion in profits in 2016.":1,"#The global campaign to hold the tobacco industry accountable is driven by an alliance of dozens of environmental, public health, human rights, and corporate accountability organizations in as many countries around the world.":1,"#Our tobacco campaign challenges the expansion of tobacco corporations like Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco, whose products kill millions of people each year.":1,"#Our research and expertise provide pivotal information for public health advocates. We engage in strategic research and analysis of tobacco industry interference tactics. We also provide policy expertise in keeping the industry out of policymaking.":1,"#Over three decades, our campaign to challenge Big Tobacco has drastically curbed the power of the industry in the United States. And our organizing in partnership with global allies has been vital to securing precedent-setting international law. Together, we are ensuring Big Tobacco cannot continue to export its epidemic of death and disease globally.":1,"#Tobacco campaign - Corporate Accountability":1,"#By The Corporate Accountability Black Collective":1,"#It’s time for those who profited from the suffering of black people to pay reparations, including Wells Fargo.":1,"#About our tobacco campaign - Corporate Accountability":1,"#June 16, 2022":1,"#Privacy policy Corporate Accountability is and always has been people-powered. More than 85 percent of our funding comes from individuals just like you. You provide the grassroots muscle that holds corporations accountable. You give us the hope, the inspiration, and the power to keep organizing for a just future for all every single day. And ...":1,"#Corporate Accountability Logo":1,"#Our campaign partners":1,"#Our successes":1,"#–":1,"#Corporate Accountability Stop Big Tobacco sign":1,"#Wells Fargo’s racist history and the call for reparations":1},"version":7126}]