Angry Mermaid Award Nominates Worst Climate Lobbyists

by Mike Smith · 2009-11-19 16:11:00 UTC
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The Angry Mermaid Awards is highlighting and promoting the worst company or business lobby who have done the most to prevent real change taking place by promoting false solutions to climate change. So who exactly is sabotaging effective action on climate change?

There's everyone from American Petroleum Institute's (API) astroturfing campaign, faking a grassroots campaign against the US Climate Bills to Monsanto and the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) who claim soy to be climate-friendly when in fact it has severe social and environmental impacts. And let's not forget Royal Dutch Shell who the Angry Mermaid Awards explain are "actively investing in the energy-intensive tar sands, at the same time as pushing unproven Carbon, Capture and Storage." Having spent $2.4 million lobbying politicians, they're working to weaken climate legislation and are worthy nominees for the Angry Mermaid. They are exactly the people it's worth getting angry about at Copenhagen.

We'll have two bloggers from Change.org covering COP15, the UN Climate Change Conference, keeping you up to date on the policy decision being made (or not being made) and all the activism happening on the ground, as it happens. There are a lot of people trying to derail a global deal, but we'll continue to fight for a comprehensive and effective Copenhagen Protocol.

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Mike Smith
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