{"id":7063,"date":"2015-04-03T07:31:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2015-04-03T07:31:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:31:24","slug":"sustainable-companies-are-using-trade-associations-that-undermine-eu-climate-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7063","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Companies Are Using Trade Associations That Undermine EU Climate Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sustainable Companies Are Using Trade Associations That Undermine EU Climate Policy<\/a><\/h3>\n

Many major multinational companies with strong sustainability policies, such as\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0andMicrosoft<\/a>, are also members of trade associations that are actively lobbying against European climate policy,\u00a0a new study<\/a>\u00a0released this week\u00a0finds.<\/p>\n

According to the report by the\u00a0Policy Studies Institute<\/a>\u00a0(PSI<\/span>) at the University of Westminster, businesses use trade associations to lobby on climate policy more than any other approach, including direct contact with\u00a0policymakers.<\/p>\n

But as the report argues, member companies must assess if the position of these trade associations is undermining their own stance on climate\u00a0change.<\/p>\n

Ben Fagan-Watson, lead researcher and research fellow at\u00a0PSI<\/span>, said: \u201cCompanies which are making strong commitments to deal with climate change need to ensure that their trade associations are singing from the same hymn\u00a0sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Climate\u00a0Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>In the run-up to\u00a0COP<\/span>21 in Paris, [EU<\/span>] leadership should not be undermined by trade associations lobbying to protect narrow, short-term industrial interests at the expense of theEU<\/span>\u00a0economy and the global climate in the long term,\u201d he\u00a0continued.<\/p>\n

Data from the\u00a0Carbon Disclosure Project<\/a>\u00a0cited in the report shows that 61 percent of all companies surveyed and 77 percent of the largest 500 companies in the world use trade associations to lobby on climate\u00a0policy.<\/p>\n

Other companies highlighted in the report for contradicting their stance on sustainability through membership to one of these trade associations include American consumer goods company\u00a0Johnson\u00a0&<\/span>\u00a0Johnson<\/a>, British drinks brand\u00a0Diageo<\/a>, and major car companies such asBMW<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Daimler<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Volkswagen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sustainable Companies Are Using Trade Associations That Undermine EU Climate Policy Many major multinational companies with strong sustainability policies, such as\u00a0Facebook\u00a0andMicrosoft, are also members of trade associations that are actively lobbying against European climate policy,\u00a0a new study\u00a0released this week\u00a0finds. According to the report by the\u00a0Policy Studies Institute\u00a0(PSI) at the University of Westminster, businesses use trade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[141,3411,279,284,981,769,4599],"class_list":["post-7063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-policy","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-multinational-corporations","tag-sustainability","tag-trade-associations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7064,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions\/7064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}