SearchMonsanto named worst corporate climate lobbyist
An article recently published in the Ecologist talks about how Monsanto, the US company wants its GM crops to be given carbon credits and to be at the forefront of tackling climate change despite link to deforestation.The biotech giant has been criticised for its aggressive corporate lobbying on climate change at the Copenhagen summit.In a public vote organised by the alliance of NGOs, including Friends of the Earth and Spinwatch, the US agricultural company came out ahead of oil giant Shell and the American Petroleum Institute.According to the alliance, the expansion of GM soy in Latin America is contributing to major deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions.
