Corporate accountability aspects and issues
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The Global Community has had work concerning corporate accountability aspects and issues ever since 1985. A short list of our previous work concerning corporate accountability aspects and issues. Corporate accountability

For more recent work concerning corporate accountability aspects and issues read the following table.

 Month/year  Theme and Author  Read contents
 June 28, 2007   Greenpeace opens tar sands campaign, by Greenpeace Canada, Edmonton, Canada — Greenpeace has taken a dramatic step to expand its climate and energy campaign by opening an office in Edmonton to oppose tar sands in Alberta.   Read Greenpeace opens tar sands campaign
 June 30, 2007   Action Alert: Greenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest Logging, by Dr. Glen Barry , Rainforest Portal and Ecological Internet (EI) There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council.   Read Action Alert: Greenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest Logging
 June 27, 2007   Our Obligation To The World, by Paul Buchheit, published in Countercurrents.org, Our way of life depends on a continuation of the economic and energy policies that keep billions of people in poverty.   Read Our Obligation To The World
 June 1, 2007   The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and TheCorporateCounsel.Net invite you to participate in a free webconference: Tackling Global Warming: Challenges for Corporate Boards and their Advisors. , by NCSE. Climate Change: Science and Solutions http://www.ncseonline.org/2008conference/ http://www.tacklingglobalwarming.com/   Read NCSE invites you to participate in free webconference: Tackling Global Warming- Challenges for Corporate Boards and their Advisors
 May 31, 2007   Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs , by Krishan Bir Chaudhary and published by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. I am sending a brief note on "US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative" agreement on agriculture for your kind perusal. The entire agreement is shroud in mystery and the farmers of the country have serious apprehensions about the real intent and motive of the joint agreement. Indian Agricultural Scientists have done a very splendid job through years of sustained research. Their scientific acumen and compatibility can match the best of faculty in the world. This agriculture agreement will oblige our scientist to became a tool in the hands of the multinationals for advancement & promotion of their interest in India. I would like to give a brief on the entire gamut of the US-India agreement as the matter concerns India's sovereignty and the future of Indian agriculture.   Read Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs
 May 26, 2007   Globalization And Democracy: Some Basics, by Michael Parenti , Michaelparenti.org Countercurrents.org The fight against free trade is a fight for the right to politico-economic democracy, public services, and a social wage, the right not to be completely at the mercy of big capital. The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particu­lar nation, while being served by the sovereign powers of all nations.   Read Globalization And Democracy: Some Basics
 May 14, 2007   Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.   Read Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming
 May 14, 2007   The Hidden War For Oil , by Carl Bloice , Countercurrents.org The US bombing of Somalia took place while the World Social Forum was underway in Kenya, three days before a large anti-war action in Washington on 27 January 2007. Carl Bloice elucidates the failure or unwillingness of the Western media to accurately report the invasion and occupation of Somalia by a US backed Ethiopian government. He asserts that behind the US-Ethiopian political alliance lies a strategic move to secure positioning in this oil region.   Read The Hidden War For Oil
 April 21, 2007   Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?   Read Human Rights And Globalization
 March 8, 2007   Genetically modified food set to be labelled before import (in India) , by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture, RURAL ECONOMY sections, Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. The health ministry is set to amend the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955 to introduce the provision of mandatory labelling of genetically modified (GM) foods, likely to be imported or produced in the country.   Read Genetically modified food set to be labelled before import (in India)
 March 3, 2007  The New, Green Face of Wall Street How a leading utility company went from environmental enemy to savior in one week and changed the financial world -- for the greener, by Tara Lohan, http://www.alternet.org/authors/8104/, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth We can meet our energy needs more quickly, more cheaply, and more cleanly through investments in wind and solar power and energy efficiency. We are counting on Wall Street to step up to the plate and start funding the future.   Read The New, Green Face of Wall Street
 March 5, 2007   Is U.S. Global Warming Pollution Violating Human Rights Law? , by Megan Tady, The NewStandard, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth, As the ice they depend on for their way of life melts away around them, indigenous people of the Arctic are taking a crack at Washington in international court.   Read Is U.S. Global Warming Pollution Violating Human Rights Law?
 February 5, 2007  Who's Funding Global Warming? Find out which banks are part of the problem, and which are part of the solution, in the fight against global climate change. , by Tara Lohan, http://www.alternet.org/authors/8104/, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth   Read Who's Funding Global Warming?
 January 5, 2007   The Next Stage of Capitalism , by David Morris, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message   Read The Next Stage of Capitalism











 

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