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But for some corporations like Amazon, the crisis means sky-high profits. Urge your governor to investigate Amazon and close warehouses with unsafe working conditions.":1,"#May 7, 2020":1,"#Here's why RWDSU thinks you should vote for Amazon in the Corporate Hall of Shame.":1,"#Amazon deserves your vote in the Corporate Hall of Shame":1,"#Viendo actualmente <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">amazon</strong>\" de las publicaciones del blog</span>":1,"#June 21, 2021":1,"#Currently viewing <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">amazon</strong>\" from Blog Posts</span>":1,"#Viendo actualmente <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">Amazonç</strong>\" de las publicaciones del blog</span>":1,"#Amazonç":1,"#\"<strong ljsid-1=\"\">Amazonç</strong>\" from Blog Posts":1,"#Currently viewing <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">Amazonç</strong>\" from Blog Posts</span>":1,"#Viendo actualmente <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">republic</strong>\" de las publicaciones del blog</span>":1,"#republic":1,"#\"<strong ljsid-1=\"\">republic</strong>\" from Blog Posts":1,"#Currently viewing <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">republic</strong>\" from Blog Posts</span>":1,"#Viendo actualmente <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">Dominican</strong>\" de las publicaciones del blog</span>":1,"#Dominican":1,"#\"<strong ljsid-1=\"\">Dominican</strong>\" from Blog Posts":1,"#Currently viewing <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">Dominican</strong>\" from Blog Posts</span>":1,"#Viendo actualmente <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">dominican republica</strong>\" de las publicaciones del blog</span>":1,"#dominican republica":1,"#\"<strong ljsid-1=\"\">dominican republica</strong>\" from Blog Posts":1,"#Currently viewing <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">dominican republica</strong>\" from Blog Posts</span>":1,"#Viendo actualmente <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">Chile</strong>\" de las publicaciones del blog</span>":1,"#\"<strong ljsid-1=\"\">Chile</strong>\" from Blog Posts":1,"#Currently viewing <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">Chile</strong>\" from Blog Posts</span>":1,"#Viendo actualmente <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">brazil</strong>\" de las publicaciones del blog</span>":1,"#brazil":1,"#\"<strong ljsid-1=\"\">brazil</strong>\" from Blog Posts":1,"#Currently viewing <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">brazil</strong>\" from Blog Posts</span>":1,"#Viendo actualmente <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">ecuator</strong>\" de las publicaciones del blog</span>":1,"#ecuator":1,"#\"<strong ljsid-1=\"\">ecuator</strong>\" from Blog Posts":1,"#Currently viewing <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">ecuator</strong>\" from Blog Posts</span>":1,"#Viendo actualmente <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">ecuador</strong>\" from Blog Posts</span>":1,"#Viendo actualmente <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">colombia</strong>\" from Blog Posts</span>":1,"#colombia":1,"#\"<strong ljsid-1=\"\">colombia</strong>\" from Blog Posts":1,"#After years of grassroots organizing by a powerful coalition coordinated by Corporate Accountability International, Colombia –once a safe haven for Big Tobacco – passed a comprehensive national tobacco control law in keeping with the global tobacco treaty.":1,"#Colombia passes national tobacco control law":1,"#January 1, 2010":1,"#Currently viewing <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">colombia</strong>\" from Blog Posts</span>":1,"#This November, people around the world rose up to challenge Big Polluters’ and Big Tobacco’s deadly agendas. The forums? Two international treaty meetings—one in Belém, Brazil on climate, and the other in Geneva on tobacco control. The vibe? Righteous outrage meets corporate capture meets international diplomacy.":1,"#For Gabby Gray, lead organizer at Pittsburgh United, the movement for water justice is personal. Learn more about their organizing.":1,"#Ally Spotlight: Gabby Gray":1,"#December 19, 2025":1,"#Viendo actualmente <span ljsid-1=\"\"><strong ljsid-1-0=\"\">all</strong> Blog Posts</span>":1,"#Portrait of Gabby Gray. She wears a gray cap and a vest, rests her chin in her hand, and smiles at the camera.":1,"#Yahoo":1,"#Here at Corporate Accountability International, we often return to a famous story about Chávez, retold by environmental justice pioneer Lois Gibbs: When young organizers asked Chávez, “How do you organize?” Chávez replied, <strong ljsid-1=\"\">“Well, first you talk to one person, then you talk to another person, then you talk to another person.”</strong>":1,"#Before Chávez founded the <a ljsid-1=\"\">United Farm Workers</a> (UFW) union with Dolores Huerta and other leaders, hardly anyone believed it was <a ljsid-3=\"\">possible for farm workers to unionize</a>. And without a union, Chávez and other Mexican-American farm workers in California faced extreme exploitation: Many were paid so little that they had to live in tents, cars, or trucks without electricity or running water. But Chávez had a different vision. He knew that if he talked with enough farm workers and convinced them to come together to demand a better working conditions, they could do what seemed impossible.":1,"#Today we celebrate the life of the great labor organizer, <a ljsid-1=\"\">César Chávez</a>, in whose footsteps we follow. The organizing we do at Corporate Accountability International and our determination to achieve what is necessary — not just what seems possible — owes much to the pioneering work of Chávez. Chávez would have been 90 years old today.":1,"#This mural of Chávez was created by Octavio Ocampo. Photo credit: <a ljsid-1=\"\">Mario</a> via Flickr":1,"#This mural of Chávez was created by Octavio Ocampo. Photo credit: Mario via Flickr “Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.” Today we celebrate the life of the ...":1,"#Honoring César Chávez: Doing what's necessary, not just what seems possible - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Honoring César Chávez: Doing what’s necessary, not just what seems possible":1,"#<b ljsid-0=\"\">Utilizando una base de datos actualizada de los mayores créditos “probablemente basura”, esta investigación revela el amplio uso de compensaciones probablemente sin sentido por parte de algunas de las corporaciones más grandes del mundo, incluidas Disney, Nestlé, Gucci, Volkswagen, Delta, easyJet, Exxon, y muchos más.</b> Según <a ljsid-2=\"\">Base de datos AlliedOffsets</a>, que representa aproximadamente un tercio (32,03 %) del total de créditos retirados en proyectos de compensación a nivel mundial, el análisis actualizado y la puntuación rigurosa de los 50 principales proyectos de compensación globales encontraron que la gran mayoría son “probables” (42 de los principales 50 proyectos de compensación o 84%) o “potencialmente” (7 de los 50 principales proyectos de compensación o 14%) basura. El análisis también encontró que para muchas de estas corporaciones, estas compensaciones “probablemente basura” constituían una cantidad notable (más de 1/3) o significativa (más de 2/3) de toda su cartera de compensaciones.":1,"#where “to offset or not to offset” will be in focus. The voluntary carbon market (VCM) has come under increased scrutiny thanks to multiple":1,"#climate talks":1,"#for carbon markets (which has been criticized by multiple experts), and as nations gear up for":1,"#announcement of proposed principles":1,"#The research comes on the heels of a Biden-Harris Administration":1,"#, the updated analysis and rigorous scoring of the top 50 global offsets projects found that the vast majority are “likely” (42 out of the top 50 offsets projects or 84%) or “potentially” (7 out of the top 50 offsets projects or 14%) junk. Analysis also found that for many of these corporations, these “likely junk” offsets made up a notable (more than 1/3) or significant (more than ⅔) of their entire offsets portfolio.":1,"#Representing approximately one third (32.03%) of the total credits retired in offsets projects globally according to":1,"#Using an updated database of the largest “likely junk” credits, this investigation reveals the vast use of likely meaningless offsets by some of the largest household name corporations around the world, including Disney, Nestle, Gucci, Volkswagen, Delta,easyJet,Exxon, and many more.":1,"#provides a deep dive into which globally-recognized brands have purchased the most “likely junk” carbon offset credits. An offset is an “allowance” that governments, institutions, and corporations—from fossil fuel majors and airlines to fast-food giants—purchase from environmental projects to supposedly count towards their respective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The analysis underscores the inherently problematic nature of increasing corporate and governmental investment in a fundamentally-flawed scheme that has failed to reduce carbon emissions while distracting from effective climate action and even likely causing harm.":1,"#– Today,":1,"#Collapse the Google News Initiaive extension window":1,"#Refresh the current data snapshot":1,"#Loading...":1,"#Collapse Extension":1,"#Bookmark this article to come back to it later":1,"#Refresh Data":1,"#Youtube":1,"#Veolia – a company <a ljsid-1=\"\">discredited</a> completely in its World Bank-promoted public-private partnership project in Lagos, Nigeria – is another such company, and yet another multinational corporation, Suez, is also <a ljsid-3=\"\">making a foray</a> into India’s water privatization market.The potential profit from this market is huge, if the government of India’s present urban development plan remains on track.":1,"#Nagpur’s water privatization scheme is a pilot project, a test case for the rest of India. 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 <a ljsid-1=\"\">diverting</a> 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 <a ljsid-1=\"\">Koodankulam</a>.":1,"#The first is the battle for drinking water being waged between citizens and corporations. Companies like<a ljsid-1=\"\"> Coca-Cola</a> and Pepsi have already <a ljsid-3=\"\">gained notoriety</a> for illegal use and overuse of groundwater. There are issues of huge <a ljsid-5=\"\">displacements</a> by power projects and <a ljsid-7=\"\">dams</a>.":1,"#(Image: <a ljsid-1=\"\">India water</a> via Shutterstock)":1,"#March 5, 2016":1,"#boicot":1,"#\" <strong ljsid-1=\"\">nestle</strong> \" 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 <strong ljsid-1=\"\">de Democracia</strong>":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 <span ljsid-1=\"\">all <strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">Democracia</strong> Updates</span>":1,"#\" from Updates":1,"#boycott":1,"#\"<strong ljsid-1=\"\">boycott</strong>\" from Updates":1,"#Currently viewing <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">boycott</strong>\" from Updates</span>":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 <span ljsid-1=\"\">\"<strong ljsid-1-1=\"\">nestle</strong>\" from Updates</span>":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,"#Ari Belathar, Corporate Accountability's executive director, has dedicated their life toward organizing for social change.":1,"#Ari Belathar - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Speechify duration in secs":1,"#Speechify duration in mins":1,"#Ari has a Ph.D. in Analytical Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. When they are not fighting the good fight, you can find Ari lost in a poetry book, riding their bicycle across town or across borders, or attempting to befriend every puppy they meet.":1,"#Prior to joining Corporate Accountability’s staff, Ari served as the executive director of the Boston Cyclists Union and held leadership positions at Resource Generation and other progressive organizations. They have worked on and led a range of campaigns in Latin America and the U.S., challenging corporations such as Coca-Cola and Hewlett Packard.":1,"#As Corporate Accountability’s executive director, Ari builds the organization’s strength, resources, and power toward winning campaigns and accomplishing our mission. They lead the organization’s work in strengthening partnerships with Global South communities, elevating the leadership, voices, and experiences of those on the ground. And they nurture Corporate Accountability’s role as a leader and collaborator—linking movements, fostering solidarity, and driving collective action for meaningful change.":1,"#Since then, they have devoted their life to working toward social justice and human rights. “To this work I bring an unwavering commitment to the dignity and autonomy of all people,” says Ari.":1,"#During the student strike, they helped establish Mexico’s first community radio station. Their work on a daily news show as the only openly queer radio host in Latin America at that time made them a target of the Mexican army. They faced persecution and were forced to flee Mexico as a refugee.":1,"#Selected Voice":1,"#Ari got their start as a social justice organizer in Mexico, defending their university from a privatization attempt. “As a student activist and independent journalist in Mexico, I had a front-row seat to the brutal impact of state oppression and corporate abuse,” Ari explains.":1,"#Pronouns: They/Them":1,"#Speechify Inline player play button":1,"#Speechify Inline player":1,"#Clarity":1,"#DoubleClick by Google":1,"#Help us reach our goal of 100 donors by February 27, and a generous supporter will give an additional $10,000 in vital funds!":1,"#Charity Navigator Four Star Rating Badge":1,"#Activists holding signs that say 'Challenge Corporate Power'":1,"#<strong ljsid-0=\"\">Help us reach our goal of 100 donors by February 27, and a generous supporter will give an additional $10,000 in vital funds!</strong> Your gift today will support our campaigns to stop corporations from perpetuating systemic racism, devastating democracy, trampling human rights, and destroying the planet.":1,"#Make a gift today and help unlock $10,000!":1,"#challenge corporate power!":1,"#Help unlock $10,000 to":1,"#We know systemic racism and corporate power are deeply intertwined. Learn more about our focus areas for supporting Black communities.":1,"#Three people engaging in a panel discussion, with the person closest to the camera talking into the microphone.":1,"#Together, we’re challenging the corporations threatening our communities, livelihoods, and freedoms. Learn more in this year's annual report.":1,"#Exposing corporate climate schemes, protecting public water, and making Big Tobacco pay. Learn what you’re making possible.":1,"#Spotlight newsletter: Issue 3, 2025":1,"#November 25, 2025":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,"#Go to Liner":1,"#Write a memo":1,"#Change a color":1,"#Important":1,"#Turn off":1,"#Ask AI":1,"#Highlight an image":1,"#If you’re a government official, read about tobacco industry interference in public health policy in <a ljsid-1=\"\">the Guardian</a> and <a ljsid-3=\"\">Reuters</a>. Then pledge to protect the Conference of Parties from tobacco industry interference by contacting us at <a ljsid-5=\"\">FCTC@corporateaccountability.org</a>.":1,"#de Guardian":1,"#conversaciones sobre el clima":1,"#anuncio de la administración Biden-Harris sobre los principios propuestos":1,"#AlliedOffsets Database":1,"#Utilizando una base de datos actualizada de los mayores créditos “probablemente basura”, esta investigación revela el amplio uso de compensaciones probablemente sin sentido por parte de algunas de las corporaciones más grandes del mundo, incluidas Disney, Nestlé, Gucci, Volkswagen, Delta, easyJet, Exxon, y muchos más.":1,"#que revelan cómo estos esquemas de comercio de carbono":1,"#investigaciones realizadas por expertos":1,"#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,"#Guardian":1,"#appear to give corporations cover to continue polluting while not actually reducing emissions, and even likely spurring significant harm. In 2023, a joint":1,"#revealing how these carbon trading schemes":1,"#around the world":1,"#investigations by experts":1,"#Boston, Massachusetts":1,"#“Las actividades políticas de Coca-Cola tienen impactos muy tangibles y desgarradores en la salud pública mundial, los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente”, dijo Ashka Naik, Directora de Investigación de Corporate Accountability. “Lo que permanece en la sombra debido a las acciones políticas de las corporaciones en todo el mundo está causando un gran daño, y debe detenerse. Desafío a Coca-Cola a que demuestre lo contrario siendo totalmente honesta con los inversionistas y con el público a este respecto”.":1,"#En México, el caso de las denuncias presentadas recientemente contra exfuncionarios de COFEPRIS a partir de darse a conocer las intensas comunicaciones que mantuvieron con Coca-Cola para establecer en 2014 un etiquetado que representaba un riesgo para la salud, es un caso ejemplar del poder de interferencia de esta refresquera en las políticas de salud pública.":1,"#En su declaración, <a ljsid-1=\"\">Calvillo</a> abordó <a ljsid-3=\"\">el papel persistente y velado que Coca-Cola</a> ha desempeñado en la obstrucción de las políticas destinadas a frenar la <a ljsid-5=\"\">grave crisis de enfermedades relacionadas con la dieta en México</a>; una crisis que sólo <a ljsid-7=\"\">se agrava durante la pandemia en curso</a>.":1,"#Aunque México es especialmente importante para Coca-Cola y sus accionistas, dado que el país compra cerca del 50% del volumen total de productos destinados a América Latina, no es más que uno de los casi 200 países en los que el gigante de las bebidas hace negocios.":1,"#Alejandro Calvillo, Director Ejecutivo de la organización mexicana El Poder del Consumidor, presentó esta mañana ante la asamblea anual de accionistas de The Coca-Cola Company en representación de los accionistas de Harrington Investments declaró: “Pedimos simplemente que Coca-Cola se adhiera a los valores básicos y universales de integridad y responsabilidad que todas las empresas deberían practicar en todos los lugares en los que hacen negocios”, “¿Por qué los inversionistas no deberían estar informados sobre las acciones políticas de Coca-Cola en mi país o en cualquier otro? No hay ninguna justificación para que Coca-Cola tenga un doble estándar en la forma de aplicar los principios de transparencia y ética en los países del Norte Global frente a los del Sur Global”.":1,"#El logro de esta votación asegura que <a ljsid-1=\"\">la iniciativa</a> se mantiene viva y podrá volverse a introducir en 2023 (ver pág. 94).También presagia lo que está por venir para <a ljsid-3=\"\">PepsiCo</a> (ver pág. 87) y <a ljsid-5=\"\">McDonald’s</a> (ver pág. 113), que se enfrentan a la misma convocatoria de voto por parte de los inversionistas en cuestión de semanas. Y estos esfuerzos no se producen de forma aislada. La <a ljsid-7=\"\">presión ha ido en aumento</a> desde la insurrección del 6 de enero en los Estados Unidos, y los intentos relacionados para desmantelar el derecho de voto de las empresas, abrir sus libros y frenar el gasto político.":1,"#Atlanta, Georgia 26 de abril.- Siete años después de que The Coca-Cola Company hiciera la <a ljsid-1=\"\">promesa pública de “mejorar”</a> en transparencia, los inversionistas han manifestado su impaciencia, ante el incumplimiento. Las revelaciones sobre <a ljsid-3=\"\">los esfuerzos de Coca-Cola para socavar el etiquetado frontal</a> de alimentos en México son apenas las más recientes que empañan el supuesto compromiso del gigante de los refrescos. Hoy, en la asamblea anual de la corporación, tras años de medias tintas y falta de acción, los inversionistas que representan 562,900,000 acciones o el 33% de la propiedad accionaria de Coca-Cola votaron para obligar a la corporación a revelar completamente sus actividades y su gasto político a nivel mundial.":1,"#El gigante de las bebidas carbonatadas se enfrenta a nuevas revelaciones sobre sus intentos de influir en la política en México. A pesar de su compromiso declarado con la transparencia, la empresa no revela sus actividades y gastos políticos a nivel mundial. La iniciativa ante la asamblea anual obtiene un impresionante 13% de votos en ...":1,"#El comunicado de prensa en <a ljsid-1=\"\">inglés</a>.":1,"#“Hacer visible lo invisible es el primer paso para avanzar en el llamado para exigir que las empresas dejen de interferir en nuestras políticas públicas y en la vida política de una vez por todas” dijo Naik.":1,"#Esta iniciativa sobre transparencia global es pionera en el sentido de que exige que se rindan cuentas no sólo del gasto político y las actividades políticas directas (cabildeo, contribuciones a las campañas, etc.), sino de todas las tácticas que aprovechan las empresas para traficar con influencias, desde <a ljsid-1=\"\">el financiamiento a la ciencia basura</a> hasta las <a ljsid-3=\"\">donaciones benéficas</a> dando una falsa imagen de ser promotoras de la salud. Su exigencia de que la transparencia también incluya revelar a qué grupos industriales y comerciales pertenecen y cuál es su gasto en ellos, así como en todos los países en los que la empresa hace negocios, es igualmente pionera.":1,"#“La transparencia en todos los mercados debería ser una parte fundamental de la licencia de una empresa para operar”, dijo Brianna Harrington, coordinadora de defensa de los accionistas de Harrington Investments, <a ljsid-1=\"\">los proponentes de la iniciativa</a>. “El hecho de que las leyes de transparencia sean débiles (a menudo gracias al cabildeo financiado por empresas como Coca-Cola) ¿significa que los inversionistas deben estar ciegos ante los riesgos involucrados?”":1,"#Además, la ocultación de las actividades políticas es también un importante lastre para los inversionistas. Como ha dicho <a ljsid-1=\"\">Vanguard</a>, el mayor emisor de fondos de inversión del mundo, “la mala gobernanza de la actividad política de las empresas, unida a la falta de alineación con la estrategia declarada de la empresa o a la falta de transparencia sobre sus actividades, puede manifestarse en riesgos financieros, legales y de reputación que pueden afectar su valor a largo plazo”. Y una reciente declaración de inversionistas del <a ljsid-3=\"\">Centro Interreligioso de Responsabilidad Corporativa</a> (ICCR), una coalición de inversionistas que representan más de 4 mil millones de dólares en activos, señaló que “el gasto político de las empresas tiene un efecto desestabilizador en el entorno económico y cultural más amplio, inhibiendo la sostenibilidad a largo plazo de los negocios […]” De hecho, los miembros del ICCR y cerca de 20 inversionistas, que representan casi 140 mil millones de dólares en activos, apoyan ahora <a ljsid-5=\"\">una carta abierta dirigida a los ejecutivos de la industria alimentaria</a> para que intensifiquen sus divulgaciones en todo el mundo.":1,"#Los inversionistas presionan a Coca-Cola para que revele sus actividades y gastos políticos a nivel mundial":1,"#\" from Blog Posts":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,"#Speechify playback speed menu":1,"#Speechify voice menu":1,"#Speechify play button":1,"#asd":1,"#by":1,"#Martin Vilela MBPP - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Martin Vilela MBPP":1,"#PT":1,"#Not in <span ljsid-1=\"\">PT</span>?":1,"#Create Post":1,"#Save Idea":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 <a ljsid-1=\"\">smart cities</a> 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, <a ljsid-3=\"\">with privatized water, sanitation and more</a>.":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 <a ljsid-1=\"\">sold by the government</a> 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 <a ljsid-1=\"\">privatize Delhi’s drinking water</a>, 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 <a ljsid-3=\"\">YouTube broadcast</a>.":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 <a ljsid-1=\"\">supplying Bhopal</a>, 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 <a ljsid-1=\"\">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> (BJP), and its ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, also headquartered in Nagpur, the third-largest city in Maharashtra.":1,"#Help unlock $10,000 to <br ljsid-1=\"\">challenge corporate power!":1,"#Belém, Brazil: On November 16, 2025, Rachel Rose Jackson, Director of Climate Research and Policy at Corporate Accountability at issued the ...":1},"version":7306}]