Hi! I'm Dr. Rowland Benjamin from Information for action (www.informaction.org)
In recent decades, large corporations have grown to become amongst the most powerful entities in the world. General Motors economy, for example, is larger than Denmark. While governments are directly responsible to their citizens, corporations are responsible only to their shareholders. Those shareholders' main, and normally sole interest is profit.
The profit motive has a terrible impact on social issues like human rights and the environment. Corporations are required by law to always act in the best interests of their shareholders, and that is almost always interpreted as keeping profits and the share price high. The issue of corporate responsibility is a relatively new one and companies are now clambering over themselves to prove their green credentials. A lot of their energy is going into 'greenwash'. 'Greenwash' is defined as disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image. Many corporations spend more money on environmental public relations than the actual act of building sustainability.
Please sign this petition in order to urge governments around the world to implement more rules and regulations against these profit-minded corporates!
