Corporations

This new massive report by the International Forum on Globalization outlines how many of the worlds richest people are benefiting from the ongoing climate crisis and how their massive networks of influence and power are stalling efforts to phase out fossil fuel dependence.

The Polaris Institute drafted one section of the report on Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, and the power he holds throughout Mexico and the Americas.

Download the Polaris report on Carlos Slim (HERE)

To read the full report visit the IFG site:
http://ifg.org/programs/plutonomy.html

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December 1st 2011
For Immediate Release

Clean-up Crew Exposes Severe Oil Contamination at DFAIT

As Canadian negotiators meet in Durban, South Africa for COP 17, an Oil Clean-up Crew visited the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) this morning, mops and cleaning supplies in hand, to clean up the oil industry’s influence on the Canadian government.

Wearing hazardous waste suits, the crew cleaned up the mess of an oil lobbyist that was found on the premises. The clean-up crew also discovered evidence of severe oil contamination at DFAIT, including the prioritizing of oil industry interests over those of Canadian citizens, the green-washing of the tar sands, and the billions of dollars leaking in the form of subsidies to oil corporations.

November 24, 2011 - In time for COP 17 in Durban, South Africa, the Polaris Institute has prepared a report outlining how multinational corporations and their lobbyists have infiltrated the United Nations and are influencing the outcomes of climate negotiations. The report uncovers and describes where corporations influence the United Nations in the build up to and during climate change negotiations and how this corporate interest is the driving force behind the preferred market based initiatives that are emerging from the UNFCCC process.

In October 2011, Polaris Institute Executive Director Tony Clarke addressed the Group of 78, an organization that seeks to promote global priorities for peace and disarmament, equitable and sustainable development, and a strong and revitalized United Nations system. In his presentation Clarke traced four decades of increasing corporate control of the global economy and neo-liberal policies.

You can read a summary of his presentation here, or below.

The World Economy: Who’s Really In Charge?
The Crisis of Global Economic Governance

Tony Clarke
Executive Director, Polaris Institute
Presentation to Group of 78, November, 2011

Please take a look at the US based Oakland Institute's call to action on the important land grab issue in Tanzania. Polaris Institute's Director, Tony Clarke, is currently on the Board of directors of the Oakland Institute. Polaris has also contributed some very important research and reports on the land grabs for the Oakland Institute's campaigns.

http://media.oaklandinstitute.org/act-now-stop-imminent-land-grab-threat...

Iowa-based investor Bruce Rastetter and fellow investors in the industrial agricultural corporation AgriSol Energy (http://media.oaklandinstitute.org/land-deals-africa/agrisol-energy-llc) have their sights on 800,000 acres (325,000 hectares) of land in Tanzania that is home to 162,000 people.

Read older Polaris Institute corporate profiles HERE