Anglo American coal firm undermining crucial climate policies, say NGOs | Global development

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  • Anglo American coal firm undermining crucial climate policies, say NGOs
    http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/dec/08/anglo-american-climate-change-lobbying

    The report is calling on the UN to introduce measures to protect its institutions from the influence of the private sector. Businesses should not have privileged positions in negotiations and the role of the business and industry group should be limited, it says.

    The UN should introduce a code of conduct for its officials, including a cooling off period during which former officials cannot work for lobby groups. The World Health Organisation set a global precedent against corporate lobbyists when it took action to ensure the tobacco industry had no role in public health policymaking, said the report.

    It also calls for the UN Global Compact, a UN initiative to encourage sustainable business practice, to be dismantled. “All of what is being done is to ensure businesses have a greater voice at the table in climate talks and in all areas of environment and development,” said Corporate Europe Observatory campaigner Pascoe Sabido. “The Global Compact is at the core of the problem, not the solution. Businesses are not short of a voice. But it is not their solutions that will take us out of this mess, it is people’s solutions. And people’s solutions are what need to be seen.”

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