Earthsummit.Biz : The Corporate Takeover of Sustainable Development

Preface ix PART I: PERILOUS PARTNERSHIPS The Globalization Decade 3(19) The Corporate Capture of the Rio Earth Summit 22(18) The Swoosh, the Shell and the Olive Branch 40(20) Corporate Accountability in the Twenty-First Century 60(17) PART II: RHETORIC AND REALITY One Wash, Two Wash, Greenwash, Bluewash 77(3) Greenwash Snapshots 80(30) BP 82(4) Council for Biotechnology Information 86(1) Chevron 87(3) Ford 90(3) Mitsubishi 93(4) Monsanto 97(2) Nuclear Energy Institute 99(3) Philip Morris 102(3) Southern Company 105(2) Royal Dutch Shell 107(3) Bluewash Snapshots 110(7) Aventis 111(1) Nike 111(1) Rio Tinto 111(1) International Chamber of Commerce 112(1) Unilever 112(1) Norsk Hydro 113(1) Bayer 113(2) Eskom 115(2) Afterword 117(2) Notes 119(20) Appendix A: Global Compact Principles and Participants 139(3) Appendix B: Citizens Compact on the United Nations and Corporations 142(4) Appendix C: Alliance for a Corporate-Free U.N.: Description and Letters to Kofi Annan and Nitin Desai 146(17) Index 163(5) Acknowledgments 168(1) About the Authors 169(1) About CorpWatch 170(3) About Food First 173