The Worst Corporation in the World
January 31, 2011 1 Comment
IT’S NOT QUITE A ‘SHADOW’ DAVOS, but the Public Eye Awards, organized by two NGOs, the Berne Declaration and Greenpeace, use the attention directed at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to name and shame the very companies attending the high-level conference.
The Public Eye Awards choose the worst corporation in the world, with two “winners” coming from a list of nominees chosen by the NGOs and voted on by the public. On January 28, Public Eye presented the award during an event held in Davos. And the “winner” is:
AngloGold Ashanti, a South African mining company for polluting rivers and water sources in Ghana.
And in the online poll, the public chose Neste Oil, a Finnish biofuel company that is the biggest buyer of palm oil for fuel manufacturing. Demand for palm oil destroys rainforests. Here is Neste’s response.
The Public Eye Awards call out environmental and social “sins” committed by corporations. In recent years they’ve singled out Roche, Citigroup, Novartis, Disney, and Wal-Mart.
The founders of the group want corporations to be legally accountable, and to observe and practice social and environmental responsibility.
Hear what Andreas Missbach, head of the Berne Declaration, has to say about being an agitator and activist at Davos.
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