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Angry Mermaid Award Seeks to Expose Greenwash

Published 02nd November 2009 - 2 comments - 3031 views -

A group of five environmental, transparency and anti-bussines lobby groups on Monday announced they are introducing a new award to expose business attemps to undermine a global agreement on climate change. The award will become known as 'The Angry Mermaid Award,' according to a joint press release by Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth International, Focus on the Global South, Attac and Spinwatch.

The organizers of the award in recent years have cooperated in Brussels with the Worst Lobbying Award ceremony. After intense legal pressure from corporate lobbyists whose activities were exposed by the awards team, the group decided to suspend this worst lobbying award in 2009.

The Angry Mermaid Award is named after the iconic Copenhagen mermaid "who is angry about the destruction being caused by climate change," said the groupAngry Mermaid Award Seeks to Expose Greenwashs in their joint statement.

The award will be decided by a public vote. Candidates are corporations, major polluters and lobby groups which have been nominated because of their track record of lobbying to prevent effective action to tackle climate change, either by blocking positive solutions or promoting false solutions to tackling the problem.

A shortlist of candidates will be revealed online on Monday 16 November when voting opens. The winner of the Angry Mermaid will be announced at a ceremony in Copenhagen during the climate talks on December 15.

“The Angry Mermaid Award exposes some of the worst corporate culprits," said Nina Holland of Corporate Europe Observatory, in a statement. "Millions of people are calling for strong and just action against climate change. Now they can vote to expose the worst of the worst.”

A dedicated website has been set up for the award: www.angrymermaid.org

Candidates have been sought from individuals and organisations working on climate change who were invited to put forward evidence of the lobbying activities of individual companies or industry groups. The shortlist will be selected by the award organisers on the basis of the evidence found.

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Category: Climate Politics, UN Climate Change Conference 2009, | Tags: climate change, climate, copenhagen, cop15, climate activism,



Comments

Lucy Setian on 03rd November 2009:

hah this is cool! Great shot about the award! It`s positive smile

Paul Montariol on 19th November 2009:

Original and interesting!
Good drawing of the mermaid.

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