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Over sixty organizations from across the world have signed an open letter to the participants of the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) calling for it to be abandoned. Your organisation can sign this letter by sending a message to Claire Robinson . More information about the RTRS can be found in the attached Q&A.

Letter of critical opposition to the “Round Table on Responsible Soy"

April 2009

We, the undersigned, call for the abandonment of the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS), on the following grounds:

A new award, aimed at businesses making false green claims, was launched today, ahead of the World Business Summit on Climate Change taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, later this month.
Members of the public are invited to vote for the company making the most outrageous claims to be green when nominations for the Climate Greenwash Awards are revealed on Monday 11 May. The winner will be announced at a special ceremony in Copenhagen on Saturday 23 May - on the eve of the World Business Summit on Climate Change.

With the European Parliament elections now just five weeks away, the first election posters have started appearing in cities across Europe. As it becomes clear who will run for (re-)election, it also emerges who is stepping down from being an MEP. Many will return to national politics, retire or look for a new job. What will be really interesting to watch in the coming weeks and months is which of the current MEPs will go through the revolving door into new jobs as industry lobbyists.

After a few decades of breathtaking deregulation, the worst crisis since the 1930s has left the major players in a state of utter embarrassment. The big financial corporations from Lehman Brothers and AIG to Northern Rock and Hypo Real Estate have wreaked so much havoc that the entire financial sector has ended up in the dock. The money heroes of the past are now being branded as unscrupulous speculators, and judgment is under way. One burning question is being asked again and again: Who is responsible for the crisis?

GM Toxic soy is not 'responsible'!

Can genetically engineered soy - grown with large amounts of agri-chemicals - ever be called 'responsible'? You probably consider this to be impossible. The damage that Monsanto's Roundup Ready soy has done in countries such as Argentina and Paraguay is enormous. Despite that, by the end of May this very same soy will be labelled 'responsible' by the Round Table on Responsible Soy.

Corporate Europe Observatory / Transnational Institute Press Release

Immediate release: Thursday 12 March 2009

EU Water Policies Under Fire as World Water Forum Approaches

Governments split over recognising right to water

The EU’s international water policies will face a double challenge from civil society campaigners and Southern governments when the World Water Forum starts in Istanbul next week (March 16-22) after a disagreement in negotiations in the run up to the Forum on the right to water [1].

19 March 2009, Brussels.  As we have seen, EU agrofuel policy has spurred a number of initiatives supposedly aimed at bringing ‘sustainable’ agrofuels to the market over the past few years. These efforts have been used to try and justify the 10% agrofuel target.