Profit before planet?
1 June 2010

Oil companies. Supermarkets. Petro-chemical firms. Airlines.

Globally they spend millions of pounds undermining environmental policy.

Big businesses spend serious money on advertising and PR telling us that they are doing their bit for the environment.

But away from the public eye they're spending many millions holding back environmental progress.

Airlines are spending millions to persuade governments to expand airports.
Petro-chemical companies are blocking environmentally friendly measures because of the cost to them.
Oil companies are funding think-tanks, designed to undermine serious climate change research.

And they are all doing it for one thing. Profit.

To them it's just good business. They want to carry on as usual. And they're ready to spend millions to make sure they can.

They sabotaged Kyoto and crippled Copenhagen.

In 1997 and again in 2009 the world came together to try to solve the catastrophic threat of climate change.

Both times governments failed to make a binding commitment.

Why? Because of the power of big business and its lobby groups.

Left to their own devices, big businesses simply will not put the planet before profits.

Email Prime Minister, David Cameron, and demand he puts the planet before profits.

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Dear Prime Minister,

I am extremely concerned to learn that corporate giants are spending millions funding business lobby groups that influence Government policies, sabotage international agreements such as Kyoto and Copenhagen and undermine credible scientific evidence on the impact of CO2 emissions. I am therefore calling on you and your Government to put the interests of people and our planet first - and not allow yourselves to be bullied by big business. I also urge you to take a leading role in galvanising leaders of developed countries to agree a binding commitment to cutting CO2 emissions by at least 40 per cent without offsets.

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Profit before planet?1 June 2010

They sabotaged Kyoto and crippled Copenhagen.

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