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Rivers and other bodies of water in India are sources of the country’s spiritualism. Activists working for water rights say capturing India’s waters is akin to capturing the nation’s soul. The law in India is that all bodies of ...":1,"#India's water war: City workers fight corporate privatization efforts - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Lastly, there are territorial disputes and tensions over China’s diverting of the Brahmaputra River’s water.":1,"#The second front is pollution. Rivers like the Ganges are polluted by industrial effluence in cities like Kanpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh, and waste disposal at religious sites like the city of Varanasi, which is represented in India’s Parliament by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Groundwater is contaminated in the periphery of nuclear power plants like the Koodankulam.":1,"#The first is the battle for drinking water being waged between citizens and corporations. Companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi have already gained notoriety for illegal use and overuse of groundwater. There are issues of huge displacements by power projects and dams.":1,"#(Image: India water via Shutterstock)":1,"#March 5, 2016":1,"#boicot":1,"#\" nestle \" desde Actualizaciones":1,"#nestle":1,"#ESCR-net: The need to ensure corporate accountability amidst the pandemic":1,"#August 25, 2020":1,"#WASHINGTON — Dozens of organizations representing millions of people across the United States called on Congress today to urgently pass a COVID-19 relief package to prevent additional unnecessary suffering across the country and to ensure voting rights. The call for COVID-19 relief comes during an unprecedented moment of climate-induced wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes. Today’s letter urges Congress to protect vote-by-mail practices, protect millions of workers on the frontlines of the pandemic with stronger safety standards and personal protective equipment, and prevent the inhumane practice of evictions and utility shutoffs. It also calls on Congress to defend the U.S. Postal ...":1,"#RELEASE: Millions of people demand congressional action on COVID-19 relief":1,"#September 14, 2020":1,"#WORLDWIDE – Today, a global coalition released a “liability roadmap”: a first-of-its-kind tool outlining how local to global decision-makers, including government officials, can hold polluting industries liable for the climate damage they knowingly cause, while unlocking climate finance needed to address the climate crisis and implement solutions. This roadmap, released just one week before UN climate week and days after Portuguese young people announced they’re suing 33 countries over inaction on climate change, is the next stage in the global campaign to Make Big Polluters Pay. Last September, international climate organizations launched a global call for Big Polluter liability at ...":1,"#INTERNATIONAL – Une coalition mondiale a publié ce jour une « feuille de route pour la responsabilisation ». Premier en son genre, cet outil donne aux décideurs locaux et internationaux, y compris aux représentants des gouvernements, les clés pour tenir les industries polluantes responsables des dégâts qu’elles causent sciemment à l’environnement et vise à débloquer des fonds qui seront alloués à la gestion de la crise climatique et à la mise en œuvre de solutions. Cette feuille de route, publiée à tout juste une semaine du sommet consacré au climat sous l’égide des Nations Unies représente la prochaine étape dans ...":1,"#todas las actualizaciones de Democracia":1,"#de Democracia":1,"#Investors demand Coke stops interfering in policy, funding junk science ATLANTA, GA—On the eve of Coke’s first-ever all-virtual annual meeting, the corporation’s role in another global health crisis is facing scrutiny. A new report by Corporate Accountability finds that the Coke-funded International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is playing an outsized role in shaping national food and nutrition policies from India to Argentina to the United States. Notable among the findings is that more than half of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee—the body that informs both national nutrition policy and how Americans eat and drink—has ties to ILSI. The findings come on ...":1,"#Report: Group funded by Coke, Big Food looms large in U.S. dietary guidelines":1,"#The barbaric murders of Black people have again risen to national attention, although this has been a relentless and centuries-long outrage in the U.S. In this moment we are grieving the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, George Floyd, Tony McDade, and so many more people whose names we will never know. Corporate Accountability stands with people around the country who are rising up in anger and anguish in response to the taking of these precious lives, and condemn the brutally repressive tactics being used to silence peaceful protest. But more than that, we know we must be ...":1,"#Originally published on Medium Across the world, government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted deep and long-standing systemic inequalities in the current dominant economic and development models. Messages, such as “stay home, stay safe”, social distancing, and “wash hands for 20–40 seconds with soap and running water” are barely relevant for those who struggle for food, decent living, public water, and basic sanitation. From our view as human rights defenders from Colombia and India, we see our government taking measures that are destroying lives. In India, the lives of millions of migrants workers — especially those in the informal ...":1,"#Une coalition mondiale publie la « feuille de route pour la responsabilisation » afin de faire payer les grands pollueurs":1,"#Sociedad civil pide equidad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas durante las audiencias públicas GINEBRA, SUIZA—Se están llevando a cabo audiencias públicas con diversas trabas para el acuerdo global propuesto por la OMS sobre prevención, preparación y respuesta ante pandemias (Tratado sobre las Pandemias). El proceso de negociación que comenzó desde Febrero ya está generando preocupaciones importantes, entre las cuales se encuentra quién puede ofrecer aportes sustantivos y cómo se armonizará la negociación del tratado, con la revisión de la OMS del vehículo existente para abordar emergencias de salud, incluidas las pandemias. Más de 200 organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC), ...":1,"#Comunicado de Prensa Inmunizar las negociaciones del Tratado Internacional de la OMS sobre las Pandemias contra quienes se benefician de ellas":1,"#April 14, 2022":1,"#Soda giant facing new revelations of attempted political influence in Mexico Despite professed commitment to transparency, corporation failing to disclose political activity and spending globally Resolution presented at the annual shareholders’ meeting gets impressive 13% first time vote PepsiCo and McDonald’s now face similar resolutions ATLANTA, GEORGIA — Seven years after making a very public vow to “do better” on transparency, investors are growing impatient. Revelations of Coca-Cola’s efforts to undermine front of package labeling in Mexico are only the most recent to malign the soda giant’s supposed commitment. Today at the corporation’s annual meeting, after years of half measures ...":1,"#Please see below for a statement from our Executive Director, Patti Lynn. “This election season, we did not let anything get in the way of voting: We showed up to vote in the midst of a pandemic and persisted in the face of day-long lines, eliminated drop-off locations, and intimidation. Now, every vote must be counted. We have been trained here in the U.S. to expect instant results, but we need to remain steadfast and peaceful while every vote is counted. What’s most important is not that we know the results now, but that those results—when they come—reflect all the ...":1,"#STATEMENT: The people have voted. Now every vote must be counted.":1,"#November 4, 2020":1,"#Dr. Yolandra Hancock addresses PepsiCo shareholders at its annual meeting -- demanding a report the impact of sugary drinks on public health.":1,"#Currently viewing all Democracia Updates":1,"#\" from Updates":1,"#boycott":1,"#\"boycott\" from Updates":1,"#Currently viewing \"boycott\" from Updates":1,"#By Jessica Glenza for The Guardian. Gina Luster bathed her child in lukewarm bottled water, emptied bottle by bottle into ...":1,"#The Guardian: Nestlé pays $200 a year to bottle water near Flint – where water is undrinkable":1,"#September 29, 2017":1,"#Yesterday, Nestlé Waters North America announced that it is partnering with Keeping America Beautiful (KAB) to do clean-ups at national ...":1,"#Currently viewing \"nestle\" from Updates":1,"#It's time for Wells Fargo to cut ties with private prisons, stop funding politicians, and more. At it's annual shareholders' meeting, we demand that the corporation align with its stated values.":1,"#Statement: 2025 Wells Fargo annual shareholders’ meeting":1,"#April 29, 2025":1,"#The following statement was delivered by Samantha Marinelli, an organizer at Corporate Accountability. Hello, my name is Samantha Marinelli and I’m an organizer at Corporate Accountability. I am deeply concerned by the stark contradiction between Philip Morris International’s public messaging and its business reality. PMI claims to be moving beyond cigarettes, yet Marlboro is still your most profitable brand and remains central to your business strategy. It continues to be prominently promoted at points of sale and in environments that appeal to young people, like music festivals. PMI is using the same playbook for its newer tobacco and nicotine products ...":1,"#On Saturday, May 17, 2025, Corporate Accountability gave the following statement at the Flint/Pittsburgh Day of Action: “Everyone, no matter where we come from or how much money we make, deserves access to safe, clean drinking water, one of our most essential resources. That’s why we’re standing in solidarity with the people of Pittsburgh, who have seen the disastrous impacts of privatization first hand, in support of the May 20th ballot referendum to keep Pittsburgh’s water public. While the private water industry pitches itself as the solution to cash-strapped cities, privatization has all too often led to higher water rates, ...":1,"#“The decision by the Trump administration to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement immediately after taking office is a catastrophic blow to communities, families, nations, and millions of people around the world whose lives continue to be impacted by a climate crisis the United States has helped spur. The catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, as well as in other parts of the world such as the Amazon rainforest, provide a harrowing illustration of the real life consequences of unchecked climate change. By abandoning the Paris Agreement, the United States—historically the largest carbon emitter and currently the world’s largest ...":1,"#Veolia's actions in Flint remind us of the very simple fact that corporations care more about their profits than about our communities.":1,"#World’s largest private water corporation settles in Flint water crisis lawsuits":1,"#February 21, 2025":1,"#Unblock":1,"#Content blocked. Click Unblock to set your consent level for this website and view the content.":1,"#The people of Flint didn’t choose to make this switch. The roots of the crisis lie in Michigan’s emergency manager law, which allows the state to install an unelected official to essentially run a city — with nearly limitless power to override local government. This disastrous law has been used to systematically suspend democracy in majority Black cities in Michigan like Flint.":1,"#Two thousand days ago, Flint’s water supply was switched to the filthy Flint River. It didn’t take long for people to start noticing that something was terribly wrong.":1,"#That’s why I’m asking if you’ll stand with our partners at Flint Rising as we demand solutions to and justice for the Flint water crisis. Donate now, and your full gift will support our partners at Flint Rising and their campaigning for justice.":1,"#And leading this organizing is Flint Rising, a grassroots campaign demanding justice. We’re committed to partnering with them to ensure that this tragedy isn’t forgotten and those responsible are held accountable.":1,"#That’s more than 5 years of contaminated water flowing from Flint residents’ taps. More than five years of sounding the alarm and organizing for a just resolution to a crisis they did nothing to cause.":1,"#For people in Flint, Michigan, it’s been over five years. In fact, today marks two thousand days since the water supply switch that triggered Flint’s ongoing crisis. When I hear that number, I have to take a deep breath to really process what it means.":1,"#What’s the longest you’ve gone without a drink from a glass of clean, safe tap water?":1,"#It’s been 2,000 days since the switch that triggered Flint’s water crisis. Stand with us and our partners at Flint Rising as we demand justice.":1,"#2,000 days: Justice for the people of Flint - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Thank you for your commitment to clean, safe water at rates all people can afford.":1,"#It’s far past time for Flint residents to have safe water again, and for those responsible for this crisis to be held accountable. When you donate today, you’ll support Flint residents in demanding their human right to water be respected, and holding those involved accountable.":1,"#For years, the powerful women at the helm of Flint Rising have been organizing tirelessly for their human right to water. They’re organizing to support their fellow Flint residents in urgently securing access to safe water for their daily needs. And they’re organizing for a long-term solution to the water crisis and accountability for those who caused it.":1,"#Now Flint residents pay some of the highest rates in the country with bills up to $200 per month — for water they can’t drink. Because even though, as you may have read, Flint’s water supply has been switched back, the water is still dirty and people are still getting sick from it. The pipes urgently need to be replaced. And the state officials whose actions sparked the crisis, like former Governor Rick Snyder, must be held accountable.":1,"#2,000 days: Justice for the people of Flint":1,"#October 15, 2019":1,"#The national nonprofit alliance of 12,000 doctors was behind shaming campaigns against not only Harris Health System, which operates Ben Taub, but also other hospitals across the country that allow fast-food restaurants in their buildings.":1,"#“If they’ve closed a McDonald’s it’s a win,” said Leslie Rudloff, director of legal affairs for the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group for nutrition and preventative medicine.":1,"#The presence of McDonald’s at Ben Taub had become a flash point of protest by those who said the menu — often laden with fat, salt and sugar — had no place at a health-care facility. On Friday, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, declared victory.":1,"#“It was not going to be as good for business,” he said, adding that the franchise owner at the basement location has not decided whether to open elsewhere in the Texas Medical Center.":1,"#All traces of the Golden Arches are now gone from the hospital basement where the restaurant was a fixture for nearly 16 years. An alternate location was offered in the hospital’s adjacent tower but the restaurant chain has decided to pass, McDonald’s spokesman Chris Stanley said.":1,"#The McDonald’s restaurant in the basement of Ben Taub Hospital was closed after the storm and now, nearly a year later, the company has decided not to reopen it, in either its previous location or the immediate vicinity, a spokesman for the fast-food giant said Friday.":1,"#What years of outrage, picket lines and billboard campaigns failed to do, a storm named Harvey accomplished with one burst pipe and a foot of floodwater.":1,"#By Jenny Deam for the Houston Chronicle. What years of outrage, picket lines and billboard campaigns failed to do, a storm named Harvey accomplished with one burst pipe and a foot of floodwater. The McDonald’s restaurant in the basement of Ben Taub Hospital was closed after the storm and now, nearly a year later, the ...":1,"#Houston Chronicle: McDonald’s at Ben Taub will not reopen after Harvey - Corporate Accountability":1,"#“At Texas Children’s Hospital, we offer a variety of food choices at varying price points to hospital employees, patients and visitors,” a spokeswoman said in an email statement. “We use this McDonald’s location to embrace the opportunity to educate our patients, their families and visitors about how to make healthy food choices as part of a balanced diet. While we cannot speak to what other hospitals are doing, physicians and staff at Texas Children’s continue to proactively work with our food vendors to offer a wide variety of foods.”":1,"#In Houston, the only remaining hospital with a McDonald’s is Texas Children’s Hospital. That facility also has a Chick-fil-A, as does the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the group’s website shows.":1,"#By Jenny Deam for the Houston Chronicle.":1,"#The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has been targeting hospitals with fast-food outlets since 2013. In that time, nine McDonald’s and two Chick-fil-A’s have closed, a spokeswoman said. Nationwide, 11 McDonald’s, 19 Chick-fil-A’s, and 5 Wendy’s remain in hospitals, according to the group’s most recent figures.":1,"#McLeod declined to confirm or deny that the protests had any bearing on the decision to not extend the lease.":1,"#It is not clear when those concerns surfaced. In two separate interviews with the Chronicle in 2016, executives with the health system lauded the McDonald’s connection, calling it a money-maker for the foundation as well as a source of comfort and familiarity for patients and their families.":1,"#McLeod said the decision to not extend the lease agreement was due to the security concerns of having a public restaurant with easy access to the hospital.":1,"#In May, the cafeteria reopened but the McDonald’s was gone.":1,"#In the early hours of Aug. 27, as Harvey pummeled the Texas Medical Center, a pipe burst in the Ben Taub basement, swamping it with floodwater. Not only was the damaged McDonald’s closed, but so was the cafeteria. After the cleanup, a massive, previously scheduled plumbing repair was undertaken unrelated to the storm.":1,"#Stanley said Harris Health and McDonald’s were still in “conversation” when the storm hit. Neither he nor McLeod could offer any insight into the negotiation, but it quickly became moot.":1,"#The Harris County Hospital District Foundation entered into a 10-year lease agreement with McDonald’s that ended in 2012 but came with an option to extend the arrangement in five-year increments. The first extension was expiring in September 2017 and was not going to be renewed, McLeod said. The company was given a 90-day notice the prior June.":1,"#Bryan McLeod, a spokesman for Harris Health System, said the fast-food outlet was on its way out even before the storm hit. Harvey just sealed the deal.":1,"#“You go upstairs and meet with a cardiologist who says you need to lower your fat intake, your sodium, your cholesterol. And then on the way out the door you can grab a Big Mac,” Rudloff said.":1,"#Houston Chronicle: McDonald’s at Ben Taub will not reopen after Harvey":1,"#August 30, 2018":1,"#The half degree margin is expected to make a significant difference on the planet with impacts of a two degree warming reported to be much worse in some places than a 1.5 degree warming.":1,"#Shell’s scenario would see global CO2 emissions reach “net zero” by 2070 – falling short of the 2050 target needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s aim of “to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees”.":1,"#While the company described its latest climate scenario as “radical”, environmentalists have criticisedthe report for failing to meet the aspirational 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement advocated by UN Climate.":1,"#In a series of tweets, UN Climate secretariat, which facilitates global climate negotiations between countries, directly linked and quoted from Shell’s report.":1,"#In its latest “Sky” scenario, Shell set out its vision on how to limit the global temperature rise to “well below two degrees” compared with 1990 level.":1,"#UN accused of promoting \"Greenwash\" by supporting Shell's solution to climate change":1,"#The UN has been called out for acting as a mouthpiece for oil giant Shell in a tweet campaigners have slammed as evidence of the conflict of interest inside the international organisation overseeing global climate policy.":1,"#DeSmog Blog: UN accused of promoting \"Greenwash\" by supporting Shell's solution to climate change - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Moreover, Shell says that achieving the two degree target probably means sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere using technology called carbon capture and storage, which remains unproven at scale today.":1,"#UN Climate, previously known as the UNFCCC, was accused of “greenwashing” after it promoted the oil giant’s vision for how the world can move away from fossil fuels and oil.":1,"#Commenting on Shell’s latest scenario, energy experts said the company’s projections would still seetemperatures rise to around 1.7-1.8C, above the Paris Agreement’s aspirational 1.5C goal.":1,"#Shell has been no different. Scenarios published by the company in 2013 would have seen warming far in excess of the internationally agreed limit of two degrees.":1,"#Yet, forecasts have repeatedly under-estimated the scale of action required to avoid dangerous warming.":1,"#Big oil companies have set out their visions for the future of energy use before.":1,"#Shell’s forecast":1,"#UN Climate did not respond to DeSmog UK’s request for comment.":1,"#Oluwafemi called for UN Climate to immediately adopt a set of guidelines about conflict of interest and to “kick out” big polluters such as Shell out of the UN negotiation process.":1,"#In a report published last month, Amnesty International pointed to “evidence of serious negligence” by Shell claiming the oil giant was taking “weeks to respond to reports of spills and publishing misleading information about the cause and severity of spills, which may result in communities not receiving compensation”.":1,"#“But in the Niger Delta, we have no reasons to trust them,” he added.":1,"#“We are now talking about this report when people are still dying in the Niger Delta, living in ongoing pollution and suffering from diseases. What Shell needs to do for the world to take them seriously is to stop pollution and human rights abuses.":1,"#The UN has been called out for acting as a mouthpiece for oil giant Shell in a tweet campaigners have slammed as evidence of the conflict of interest inside the international organisation overseeing global climate policy.":1,"#“This is extremely opportunist and turning the global community’s attention away from what the company’s activities really are.":1,"#For Oluwafemi, UN Climate’s visible support for Shell is unacceptable. Denouncing Shell’s “hypocrisy”, he said: “It is not this sort of greenwashing and the publication of glossy reports that is going to solve global warming.”":1,"#Akinbode Oluwafemi, deputy secretary director of the Nigerian NGO Environmental Rights Action, works in the Niger Delta region where communities are fighting Shell to clean up the pollution of a major oil spill which happened a decade ago.":1,"#In the courts, Shell and oil major Eni are facing prosecution for alleged bribery in connection with a $1.3bn payment to gain control of a Nigeria oil field in one of the biggest corruption trials in the energy industry for years.":1,"#UN Climate also came under fire for promoting Shell in spite of the company’s poor environmental and human rights record.":1,"#‘Hypocrisy’: Shell’s environmental and human rights record":1,"#He added: “As we move forward with climate action, we can’t forget the past of a corporation like Shell.”":1,"#For Bragg, UN Climate’s tweet sets the stage for where its secretariat stands on the issue, despite repeated calls for action by governments and NGOs.":1,"#Although no policy has yet been agreed, the issue is a key agenda item for international negotiators meeting in Bonn later this month.":1,"#Developing countries made progress on demanding a conflict of interest policy last year against resistance from the world’s biggest economies including the EU, the US and Australia.":1,"#By Chloe Farand for DeSmog Blog UK.":1,"#“UN Climate’s secretariat is meant to be there to carry out the will of governance, not to promote the PRor greenwashing of any corporations – let alone one that is responsible for human and environmental abuses,” he added.":1,"#“Therefore, it’s just greenwashing,” he said. “It’s an advertisement for Shell to be in the news.”":1,"#He told DeSmog UK Shell’s “Sky” scenario was neither consistent with the Paris Agreement nor had it been endorsed by Shell as a blueprint to shift the company’s business model.":1,"#Bragg described UN Climate’s “tacit endorsement” of Shell’s latest scenario as another example of the issue at stake.":1,"#Transparency campaigners have long demanded UN Climate adopt a clear set of guidelines for fossil fuel companies and lobbyists to declare any conflict of interests within the negotiation process.":1,"#Conflict of interest":1,"#Meanwhile, Shell’s report was also called out as “hypocritical” by environmental campaigners who pointed out to Shell’s devastating environmental and human rights record in places such as the Niger Delta, in Nigeria.":1,"#“Unfortunately, UN Climate has been heading into this direction for a long time… They prefer to take fossil fuel corporations – largely responsible for the climate crisis – at their words, that they want to do good. But the facts suggest a different reality,” he said.":1,"#Pointing to the conflict of interest, Jesse Bragg, a spokesman for NGO Corporate Accountability told DeSmog UK the tweet was a “questionable” use of the UN’s body communication channel and showed UN Climate was keen to remain in the good books of fossil fuel companies.":1,"#UN Climate propped up Shell at a time when the company is also facing calls by activist shareholders to take stronger action on global warming.":1,"#DeSmog Blog: UN accused of promoting “Greenwash” by supporting Shell’s solution to climate change":1,"#April 4, 2018":1,"#Protection Status: On":1,"#corporateaccountability.org":1,"#Valerie Thomas was a scientist and inventor who worked with NASA. In 1980, she received a patent for her illusion transmitter, which is still used by NASA today in some of its satellite applications. Read more.":1,"#Valerie Thomas - Corporate Accountability":1,"#(233 characters remaining)":1,"#Not vmeredith? Click here.":1,"#Welcome back, vmeredith!":1,"#We know systemic racism and corporate power are deeply intertwined. Learn more about our focus areas for supporting Black communities.":1,"#Elvis has held many roles across the social movement sector. He served as the Organizing Director and Executive Director of Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts, a statewide power building organization advancing the interests of working people. He also held leadership roles at the National Guestworker Alliance (now Resilience Force), which organized seafood supply chain workers, and the Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative, which built a diverse coalition of community-based organizations advocating for workers’ rights. His passion for getting people to believe in themselves and the power of collective action is something he’s carried with him throughout his career.":1,"#At the dawn of the Great Recession, Elvis experienced his first brief glimpses of the possibility of a world liberated from corporate tyranny. As a new organizer apprentice fresh off a door-knocking shift, he watched as people danced in the street because of organized people power, electing a new president in the hopes of combating inequality and righting historical wrongs. A month later, a group of courageous workers, that Elvis would later work with, shocked the world by occupying their factory to fight against corporate greed. The magic, joy, and unfulfilled promise of those moments committed him to building the power of working people in the hopes of extending those fleeting moments of possibility into the everyday reality all people deserve. Along the way he fell in love with the spirit, kinship, and beautiful rhythms of movement work.":1,"#If you’re a government official, read about tobacco industry interference in public health policy in the Guardian and Reuters. Then pledge to protect the Conference of Parties from tobacco industry interference by contacting us at FCTC@corporateaccountability.org.":1,"#Trump Administration’s abandonment of the Paris Agreement sets a dangerous precedent/ El abandono del Acuerdo de París por parte de la Administración de Trump sienta un peligroso precedente":1,"#Ari Belathar, activist and movement leader, will be the new executive director of Corporate Accountability. They will step into the role this February to support the organization as it continues to put movement power and resources behind Global South campaigns.":1,"#Release: Corporate Accountability’s Board of Directors proudly announces the hire of Ari Belathar as Executive Director":1,"#January 28, 2025":1,"#RELEASE: Global coalition releases liability “roadmap” for governments to Make Big Polluters Pay":1,"#(229 characters remaining)":1,"#(230 characters remaining)":1,"#(232 characters remaining)":1,"#(234 characters remaining)":1,"#(236 characters remaining)":1,"#(237 characters remaining)":1,"#El borrador del texto del tratado, parece dejar de lado las salvaguardias contra la interferencia política corporativa.":1,"#Se vislumbran presiones corporativas a medida que se reanudan las conversaciones sobre el tratado contra las pandemias":1,"#The following statement was delivered by Corporate Accountability, associate director of equity and major gifts, at the Wells Fargo annual shareholder's meeting.":1,"#Statement: 2023 Wells Fargo annual shareholders’ meeting":1,"#“Nagpur is the first step in controlling the fate of India’s 600 smart cities of the future,” said Wilfred D’Costa of the Indian Social Action Forum, one of the two dozen all-India groups protesting the privatization of drinking water in the subcontinent. India plans to make 600 of its existing cities into smart cities by 2023, with the announcement for the first 20 made in early February. All the cities will be run as business centers, with privatized water, sanitation and more.":1,"#Nagpur’s water privatization scheme is a pilot project, a test case for the rest of India.":1,"#If this is going to be the model for India’s “smart cities” (cities with privatized utilities) like Delhi and Nagpur, smart city citizens need to rethink their water needs, as the water war of the future is likely to be long and drawn out.":1,"#Veolia said it had the ability to provide 10,000 households with drinking water in European cities. This is peanuts when compared to the drinking water needs of millions of people in one Indian city, like Nagpur, which has a population of 2.4 million.":1,"#The Nagpur case, too, has a long genesis.":1,"#In 2005, the coalition government led by the Indian National Congress Party initiated a $20 billion project, called the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission, which was a massive city modernization scheme. Under the Urban Renewal Mission, the definition of what constitutes a “city” was changed. Anand told Truthout that a city went from being a place with a distinct cultural character to an “engine of growth,” simply an “economic center” of profit and loss, “which is only possible if it is an investment destination.” The Urban Renewal Mission said cities’ local bodies would no longer be responsible for providing civic amenities like waste clearance and drinking water. This paradigm shift made urban local bodies just “facilitators” for profits.":1,"#The change in laws, friendly to corporate interests, began as early as the 1990s, with India’s so-called economic liberalization. By the early 1990s, state governments were told to withdraw their involvement in services like education, garbage collection and water treatment. By 1998, in Chhattisgarh, for example, whole rivers were being sold by the government to companies like Radius Water Ltd., the Jindal Group and many others.":1,"#The mandatory reforms demanded that certain laws of the local bodies be changed and jurisdictions relinquished, as well as a double accounting system be adopted and a user charge regime introduced. In 2014, when the Modi government came to power, it scrapped the Urban Renewal Mission and initiated a “special purpose vehicles” model (based on the creation of financial entities structured to prevent certain aspects of businesses from being affected by the rest of the company’s business) for every sector of civic function. This way, all civic decisions would be “special purpose vehicles” decisions, not decisions made by an elected local body (a decision by people’s representatives). These non-elected entities would make recommendations to the legislative councils, local councils and municipalities.":1,"#The Nagpur Municipal Corporation Employees Union has been protesting water privatization since 2011. The union’s leader, Jammu Anand, told Truthout that the protest is “part of a larger struggle to stop 1.2 billion Indians from having to pay through their nose to privately controlled companies for their drinking water.”":1,"#Rivers and other bodies of water in India are sources of the country’s spiritualism. Activists working for water rights say capturing India’s waters is akin to capturing the nation’s soul. The law in India is that all bodies of water are state property. As such, the government can do whatever it pleases with the waters of India. Right now, India’s water war has three fronts.":1,"#Nagpur is divided into 10 water zones. The new joint venture, Orange City Water Private Limited, took up one as a demo zone before the 2014 elections. Under the new “special purpose vehicles” mechanism, it became mandatory for the Nagpur Municipal Corporation to borrow 30 percent of its funds from financial institutions like the World Bank. The Nagpur Urban Local Body also has to buy raw, untreated water and electricity for the treatment plant and pumping stations and to provide tankers and petrol for the distribution network, where piping is not complete. The Urban Local Body has to pay Orange City Water at the rate of 10.38 rupees per unit for 250 million liters of water supplied daily to the city, while Orange City Water collects for the Nagpur Municipal Corporation only 6.38 rupees per unit as a water tariff from the consumer. Thus, the Nagpur Local Body now pays 4 rupees per unit as a subsidy to the private company Orange City Water ($1 is equivalent to about 70 rupees). The Nagpur municipality used to spend 90 million rupees to supply water to the city.":1,"#Nagpur is the political platform of Nitin Gadkari, a high-profile BJP leader. His dream has been to make Nagpur a logistical hub for goods and services. The ideological leader, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has theoretically always opposed the privatization of services like water and electricity and calls itself totally “national.” However, it has been completely silent on these issues ever since the Modi government came to power.":1,"#Before the loan, the World Bank asked the Jal Board to appoint a consultant to manage each zone. Each zone would have four experts in the team, and each expert would be paid $25,000 per month by the Delhi water board, according to Kejriwal. A few years ago, Kejriwal and his supporters demanded to see the project papers under the Right to Information Act (which came into force 2005). The 9,000 pages of documents subsequently made available to public scrutiny showed that the water board earned 1.63 billion rupees and that 63 percent (annually about 1.08 billion rupees) of its money would go to paying these experts. To meet this consultancy charge, the water board would have to raise the piped drinking water tariff in Delhi by nine times. The World Bank forced the water board to cancel the technical bidding twice, as its consultant choice, PricewaterhouseCoopers, did not meet the set criteria. So now, Delhi’s twice-elected chief minister Kejriwal asks a very pertinent question, “Are we citizens of an independent nation?”":1,"#The rationale for privatization was to overcome losses for the Urban Local Body; in 2016, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation will shell out 1.8 billion rupees. There is also a 2 billion-rupee scam in meters. Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling repeatedly for “made in India” technology, Orange City Water Private Limited buys and fits euro-norms compliant meters and sells them at twice the purchasing cost to the Urban Local Body.":1,"#Another curious example is the attempt to privatize Delhi’s drinking water, traditionally supplied by a government entity called the Delhi Jal Board.India’s capital city, Delhi, at the time housed more than 15 million people. It is divided into 21 water supply zones. The city-state was, at the time, ruled by the BJP. The cash-rich city government decided that the water board should seek a loan from the World Bank to privatize drinking water; the Bank stipulated that the supplier had to be a multinational company. “It has never been explained why a [World Bank] loan would be necessary for a surplus reserves state,” said Arvind Kejriwal, now Delhi’s chief minister, in a YouTube broadcast.":1,"#One other thing that happened with the economic reforms is the mandatory process of an audit for every such project. Three things that all such audit reports now always say are: 60 percent of resources (water, energy etc.) goes to waste; 50 percent of the supply is unaccounted for; and existing departments, whether for electricity or water or waste disposal, are suffering leakages and losses and are incapable of managing supply, often due to the indifference of elected representatives. In other words, India’s civic bodies – which have been public managing agencies overseeing services like water and sanitation for the last 70 years – are incompetent. Once this premise was set, privatization was a cakewalk for the companies.":1,"#Nagpur’s water privatization scheme is a pilot project, a test case for the rest of India. Though the water supply project is not even 40 percent complete and has not proven its efficacy, “in a sudden recent move, the Narendra Modi government has accepted the Nagpur model of public-private partnership as the ‘most successful’ model for drinking water supply in the country, without even reviewing the necessary data,” Anand told Truthout, calling for the return of Nagpur’s drinking water supply to the urban local body, the traditional service provider for Indian cities.":1,"#A joint venture company called Orange City Water Private Limited, set up by Vishvaraj and Veolia to privately supply Nagpur, already has eyes on supplying Bhopal, yet another central Indian city, under a BJP government.":1,"#Radius Water Ltd. is another such company: It controls rivers – and therefore, drinking, irrigation and livelihood water – in another BJP-ruled central Indian state called Chhattisgarh, which was carved out from the state of Madhya Pradesh in 1998. The rivers were sold when Chhattisgarh was still a part of the larger state of Madhya Pradesh, which was also ruled by the BJP.":1,"#Since 2007, Vishvaraj Infrastructure Ltd. has emerged as the biggest player in India’s drinking water scene, thanks to a partnership with a French multinational. The World Bank held an ownership stake in the company’s Indian subsidiary until 2014. Vishvaraj Infrastructure Ltd. is a small, privately owned Indian company based in the central Indian city of Nagpur. It had no previous expertise in water treatment, distribution or management. Activists in the state of Maharashtra are quick to agree that the company’s only claim to fame is its closeness to the ruling dispensation, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and its ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, also headquartered in Nagpur, the third-largest city in Maharashtra.":1,"#Para entrevistas o información adicional, contactar a:
Adriana Ergueta
Responsable de Comunicaciones
América Latina y el Caribe
Corporate Accountability
aergueta@stopcorporateabuse.org":1,"#Más de 47,7 millones de créditos de compensación problemáticos fueron retirados a través de 43 de los mayores proyectos del mundo en 2024.":1,"#18 proyectos REDD/REDD+ (conservación de bosques y prevención de la deforestación) en países como Brasil, Perú, Colombia, Guatemala, Camboya, Kenia y otros continúan siendo utilizados, a pesar de las preocupaciones ampliamente documentadas sobre este tipo de proyectos, sin mencionar las denuncias de daños por parte de comunidades locales y pueblos indígenas.":1,"#Para entrevistas o información adicional, contactar a:
Adriana Ergueta
Responsable de Comunicaciones
América Latina y el Caribe
Responsabilidad Corporativa
aergueta@stopcorporateabuse.org":1,"#Casi todos (93%) de los proyectos que retiraron créditos problemáticos están ubicados en el Sur Global, es decir, en países que históricamente han contribuido menos al cambio climático y que ya están experimentando los mayores impactos. Esto incluye cinco proyectos ubicados en Brasil.":1,"#La investigación revela que:":1,"#A una semana del inicio de la COP30 en Belém, surgen nuevas propuestas impulsadas por el país anfitrión, Brasil, como la Coalición Abierta para la Integración de los Mercados de Carbono, que “busca armonizar estándares y conectar diferentes sistemas de comercio de créditos de carbono ya existentes”. Asimismo, se ha presentado la iniciativa del Fondo Bosques Tropicales para Siempre (Tropical Forests Forever Fund, TFFF), orientada a financiar la conservación de los bosques tropicales. Sin embargo, estas iniciativas continúan profundizando la crisis climática al priorizar mecanismos de mercado sobre las reducciones reales y estructurales de emisiones.":1,"#El 93 % de los proyectos de compensación problemáticos se encuentran en el Sur Global.":1,"#Explore the Black Collective’s framework!":1,"#Join the call to make Big Tobacco pay for its harms on people’s health and the planet. Learn more about how together, we can make the industry pay for the costs of its deadly products.":1,"#Elvis Mendez leads Corporate Accountability's campaigns, ensuring that we are building power to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.":1,"#Elvis Mendez - Corporate Accountability":1,"#He studied Social Thought and Political Economy at UMASS Amherst, went on to earn a masters in public policy at the School of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Tufts University, and is finishing a Masters of Science in Labor Studies at UMASS Amherst. He lives in Chicago with his family, and is an avid fan of basketball, stand-up comedy, and pasta.":1,"#At Corporate Accountability, Elvis supports the campaigns teams, ensuring that we’re building power to protect people and the planet above corporate interests.":1,"#As an immigrant growing up between two worlds, a working class community in Massachusetts and summers with his extended family in the Dominican Republic, Elvis saw firsthand how transnational corporations take advantage of and profit from Global South communities in the U.S. and abroad. “Corporate Accountability’s history of confronting concentrated power resonates with me strongly,” he says. “Being a part of this work, and organizing to build a better world, is my way of loving my community, ancestors, and future generations.”":1,"#STATEMENT: Nestlé’s shady CSR won’t clean up its filthy image":1,"#January 15, 2019":1,"#(240 characters remaining)":1,"#(231 characters remaining)":1,"#Not in UY?":1,"#Statement: Paula Johns presenting global political disclosure resolution at 2022 PepsiCo shareholders’ meeting":1,"#Paula Johns, Co-founder and Director of ACT Health Promotion, speaks truth to power at the PepsiCo shareholders meeting.":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,"#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,"#La investigación de Corporate Accountability sugiere que, a pesar de las reformas en curso, los Mercados Voluntarios de Carbono siguen fracasando en gran medida.":1,"#Zikora Ibeh":1,"#Statement: 2025 Philip Morris International (PMI) annual shareholders’ meeting":1,"#May 7, 2025":1,"#In close partnership with allies and governments in the Global South, we advanced the unanimous adoption and 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,"#(239 characters remaining)":1,"#Por Ari Rubenstein":1,"#The People vs. Big Polluters, Big Tobacco, and tentacled corporate monsters":1,"#December 1, 2025":1,"#We support community organizations in rejecting Houston's budget proposal, which slashes critical funding for communities.":1,"#Statement: Houston’s budget proposal threatens critical infrastructure":1,"#June 5, 2025":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},"version":7275}]