Public Eye on Davos

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The Public Eye on Davos was held annually from 2001 to 2015 as a counter-event to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos . It was a platform for criticism of the same event and of globalization in general.

From 2005, the Public Eye Award, a negative prize , was given during the event to companies that had previously come under criticism for their business policies that were particularly harmful to humans and the environment. In January 2015, the series of events was concluded with a closing event and the presentation of the Public Eye Lifetime Award .

The project involved non-governmental organizations (NGO) from all over the world and was brought into being by the Bern Declaration (now the “Public Eye”). Pro Natura was a project partner until 2008, and since 2009 Greenpeace Switzerland was the second sponsoring organization of “The Public Eye on Davos”.

history

"The Public Eye on Davos" was set up from autumn 1999 with the aim of providing critical support to the World Economic Forum (WEF) with an on-site counter-event and showing alternatives for a socially and ecologically compatible economy. In January 2000, the initiators invited to an event organized together with the WOZ «Who rules the world?» a. In Davos, Klaus Schwab , President of the WEF, presented himself to the “Public Eye” in a public discussion. The “Bern Declaration” drew the conclusion from this discussion that “even a substantial NGO representation in the WEF would hardly help to challenge and change the WEF”. As a result, “Public Eye” itself organized - in contrast to the WEF - a publicly accessible international counter-conference parallel to the WEF, which took place at the same time for the first three years.

The first event organized as an alternative conference took place in January 2001. Around 20 NGO representatives and critical scientists took part in the event, who presented alternative solutions for a sustainable economy and expressed their criticism of what they consider to be a one-sided economic globalization, which only allows industrialized countries to benefit, and its consequences for people and the environment . In 2002 the counter-conference also moved to New York parallel to the WEF event. There, the then Swiss President Kaspar Villiger opened the “Public Eye” before his opening speech at the WEF. Pro Natura , project partner of Public Eye, was represented at both events. Traditionally, the security and economics director of the canton of Graubünden paid their respects to the Public Eye.

In contrast to the “Olten Alliance”, which was generally directed against the WEF, “self-appointed elites” and NATO , Pro Natura was a non-governmental organization in New York in 2002 not only at the “Public Eye” conference, but also directly at the WEF represented In 2003, “Public Eye” did not support the “Olten Alliance” call for a demonstration because there was no commitment to non-violence. In 2004, the opening speech was given by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson , who in 2005 addressed both the importance of the awards presented for the first time to remind companies of human and labor obligations as well as those of the WEF itself. Noreena Hertz sharply criticized the World Bank and the IMF. The conference was also recognized by the organizers of the WEF, so the WEF director spoke in 2004 of a change “from dialogue-free confrontation to critical dialogue”.

After the first five editions, the appearance of the event was changed. According to the organizers, there should be fewer “dry debates on globalization” and the event should be made accessible to a wider audience. The previous form as a counter-conference had not received the desired media attention towards the WEF, at the same time there was already another event with the World Social Forum , which had a similar focus to the “Public Eye on Davos”. As a result, in 2005, the Public Eye Award was the first negative prize awarded to companies that the nominators accused of having a business policy that was harmful to people and the environment. These “awards” were given in various categories by a jury, with the prize being awarded in various subject categories in the first two years. From 2007 a negative prize was awarded to Swiss and global companies, and from 2008 an audience award was added. From 2006 to 2009 a positive prize was also awarded at the event. From the 2006 event, the series of events, which used to be several days, was shortened to the day on which the prizes were awarded. Another criterion for awarding the award was that a civil society organization was running an awareness-raising project that would continue after the award ceremony.

In 2013, Thomas Niederberger reported in Greenpeace magazine that although the reactions of the nominated companies were the same as ignoring, denying and glossing over each other, a dynamic would have resulted from the ongoing campaigns, a prerequisite for a nomination. Niederberger attested to the corporations that they had learned something new. Nobody could avoid “a commitment to environmental protection and social commitment”. The international reporting would have helped the award with its aim of naming and publicizing, because the entire world press present would have liked to look for controversial content. As of this year, four renowned ethicists also sat on the jury for quality assurance purposes . In addition, the Institute for Business Ethics at the University of St. Gallen prepares an expert opinion on each nomination. According to the representative of the EvB in the jury, Andreas Missbach, his biggest problem is that there are always too many candidates who deserve the award.

In November 2014, the “Bern Declaration” and Greenpeace Switzerland announced that the “Public Eye” would take place in January 2015 for the last time. The main reason given for discontinuing the series of events was the corporate responsibility initiative , which was then being examined, as well as the WEF itself, which Public Eye on Davos believed had lost its importance as a "private event "; political demands should be addressed to democratically legitimized decision-makers. So widespread The Yes Men the message that public-private partnerships are not the solution but part of the problem are. A total of 23 companies received a “Public Eye” award , with Chevron receiving the so-called Lifetime Award during the closing event .

In 2016, the previous co-organizer of the “Public Eye on Davos”, the “Bern Declaration”, renamed itself “Public Eye”.

"Public Eye Awards"

The Public Eye Award logo

The Public Eye Awards were given to corporations which, in the opinion of the initiators , had behaved particularly irresponsibly towards people and the environment . The focus of the Public Eye Awards was therefore on the topic of corporate social responsibility . Public Eye did not start its own campaigns, but offered a platform for existing campaigns. The reasons listed below are those that emerge from the respective laudation for the award.

2005

  • Human rights: Dow Chemical took over the chemical company Union Carbide Corporation in 2001 , neither of which assumed responsibility for the consequences of the Bhopal disaster . Up to 25,000 people died as a result of this catastrophe by 2005, depending on the estimate, and around 150,000 people suffered from chronic complications from this chemical accident. At the award ceremony, Dow Chemical was accused of not disclosing any information about the gas emitted at the time of the award ceremony and of evading responsibility for the consequences of the disaster. Union Carbide had negotiated a settlement with the Indian government and could no longer be prosecuted by the Indian judiciary. One day after the award ceremony, there was still a “carpet of people” against Dow Chemical in Davos.
  • Environment: Royal Dutch Shell has been producing oil in Nigeria since 1956 and, according to the nominating Nigerian organization Environmental Rights Action (part of the Friends of the Earth network ), despite promises to the contrary, still openly burns natural gas, which causes enormous noise and soot particle emissions. Through numerous leaks, at the time of the award 4,000 of them had been counted over the duration of its existence, Shell also pollutes the environment and in particular the Niger Delta .
  • Labor Rights: Walmart has supplier companies in Lesotho , Kenya and Thailand . The American retail group had been made aware of grievances in terms of working conditions, working hours and wages in its supply chain on several occasions, had mostly not even responded to them and had not adjusted the requirements for its suppliers. In the nomination speech, Lesotho was given as an example, where the normal working day is 10 hours, but the workers would have to work up to 14 hours a day and this for an average monthly wage of 54 US dollars. There are only three toilets for 900 workers.
  • Taxes: According to the organizers, KPMG has now distinguished itself as a "repentant assistant to tax evasion". According to Public Eye, the Dutch auditing and consulting firm offered over 500 tax avoidance models and thus operated a lucrative business and cheated various states out of hundreds of billions of dollars. KPMG was nominated by the Tax Justice Network , one of whose co-founders is the “Declaration of Bern”. KPMG responded to the criticism by outsourcing tax advice for wealthy private individuals to a subsidiary in order to prevent damage to the Group's reputation.
  • Audience award: Nestlé received the humiliation award in advance of an online vote for “aggressive marketing of baby food ”, which competes with healthier breastfeeding, and for its behavior in a labor dispute in Colombia.

The first award ceremony was attended by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former Irish President Mary Robinson . The event was moderated by Swiss cabaret artist Patrick Frey . The award winners were selected by an international body made up of representatives from non-governmental organizations.

2006

  • Environment: In 2001, Chevron bought Texaco , which has been polluting the Amazon region in northern Ecuador for almost thirty years due to the use of outdated technologies . According to "Lautdatio" from Amazon Watch, 70 billion liters of toxic wastewater were discharged into waste pits, streams, rivers and wetlands during this time. The pollution has displaced numerous indigenous peoples and the Tetetes people have even died out as a result. Public Eye accused Chevron of being irresponsible because the company left polluted surfaces instead of cleaning them. Even 10 years after the award ceremony, there were still legal proceedings pending on the question of guilt.
  • Taxes: The Citigroup Inc. on nomination of the Tax Justice Network for the activities of its subsidiary Citibank "excellent", which was the largest non-Swiss private bank at the time of the award ceremony. The bank has been accused of helping wealthy clients and companies to withdraw their assets from the tax authorities. The bank used offshore companies to invest the assets in tax havens. The big American bank also managed the funds of various dictators such as Sani Abacha , who gave Nigeria billions in debt, or Pinochet .

2007

After a cynical moderation by cabaret artist Patrick Frey , the following companies received "prizes" - including a positive award for the first time:

  • Global Award: Bridgestone received the Global Award. The nomination text of the International Labor Rights Fund and Friends of the Earth accused the company of irresponsible behavior by its subsidiary Firestone Natural Rubber Company on almost 500 km² of rubber plantations in Liberia . According to the Public Eye on Davos, the situation there was “similar to that of slavery”. In order to achieve the daily output, they (who?) Would be forced to employ their children in the work on the plantations with child labor . According to the nomination text, workers there would live cut off from the outside world in mud huts without access to running water, sanitary facilities or electricity and children should help cut the trees, carry out pesticides and help with the transport of the latex, but did not attend school. The sewage contaminated by the rubber processing plant would harm the population and poison water and soil in the region.
  • Swiss Award: Novartis received the Swiss Award for its patenting policy for vital cancer drugs such as Imatinib Mesylate. Novartis secured a three-year monopoly for this cancer drug in India . The Indian generic production of the drug had to be stopped, and tens of thousands of Indians could no longer have afforded the drug against blood cancer, which was ten times more expensive . In January 2006, the Indian Patent Office rejected a new patent application from Novartis for the drug and the time-limited monopoly expired and the company sued in court, Novartis lost the seven-year trial in 2013 at the last instance before the Supreme Court of India .
  • Other nominees: Ikea , RUAG , Trafigura and Xstrata .
  • Positive Award: Coop received the positive award because it was committed to organic farming in Switzerland. Other nominees were Eosta and Marks & Spencer .

The previous cooperation with the WEF was terminated because, in the opinion of the sponsors (Pro Natura and the Bern Declaration), the benefit would have been one-sided with the WEF.

2008

  • Global Award, People's Award: Areva (Global Award, People's Award): As the majority shareholder in two mining companies ( Somaïr and Cominak ), Areva mines uranium in the north of Niger . The mine workers who work there and their families are not adequately informed about the health risks of uranium mining. They then developed cancer due to radioactive radiation, and the French state-owned company did not want to pay the treatment costs. On the occasion of a free health treatment offered to employees, AIDS diagnoses were issued, the costs of which the company did not have to pay. Analyzes in the area would show radioactive pollution of the air, water and soil; Areva denied the required access to the mines by independent experts.
  • Swiss Award: At the time of the award, Glencore was mining around 10 million tons of coal annually in three mines in Colombia in the area of ​​the municipality of La Jagua and operates a coal port in Santa Marta . The health of the population in the vicinity of the mine is significantly impaired and environmental requirements are only poorly implemented. The drinking water supply in the vicinity of the mines is interrupted and the dirty water is discharged unfiltered into the surrounding rivers. In Santa Marta, the group had deliberately dismissed unionized employees; Protests by the miners were violently broken up by the military and police and claimed one person dead.
  • Positive Award: Hess Natur as a pioneer in the sale of natural textiles. In 2007, Hess Natur produced textiles from 100 tons of organic cotton. Other nominees for the Positive Award were Care Naturkost GmbH & Co and Soglio-Produkte AG.
  • Other nominees: Bayer CropScience, Dole Philippines Inc., Petroleum Association, Holcim Ltd.

2009

  • Global Award, People's Award: Newmont Mining Corporation received the “price” in the planning phase for the 1,915 hectare Akyem gold mine being built in eastern Ghana  - after a project by the group had already been rejected in 2006 due to ecological and social concerns. According to the nomination text of the Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining, at the planning stage at the time of the award ceremony, this mine had destroyed around 84 hectares of the Ajenjua Bepo forest reserve , around 10,000 smallholders would lose their land and around 1,333 people would have been affected by forced relocation , according to nomination, everything without any compensation in accordance with the law. In addition, the group uses cyanide for gold extraction and around 15 million tons of waste rock would accumulate from gold extraction, which would massively pollute the soil and rivers and thus seriously threaten the region's environment. Newmont countered the award with a statement from over 150 community leaders that contradicted the allegations. Even in the run-up to the gold mining project, the municipalities had signaled overwhelming support for the project. The nomination received numerous false statements.
  • Swiss Award: The Bernese power plants (BKW) present themselves according Lautdatio of Greenpeace like a "future-oriented energy company that promotes renewable energy and efficiency." At the same time, the group is investing around 1.6 billion Swiss francs in a hard coal-fired power plant in Dörpen, Germany, and thus in one of the most climate-damaging types of energy production according to Greenpeace. After the canton of Bern, as the majority shareholder, did not approve this investment, the group did not withdraw from the project, but was only looking for further investment partners for the coal-fired power plant. One year after the award, the project was discontinued after the investment partner left. While BKW denied a direct connection with the award ceremony, the Public Eye initiators presented the demolition as their own success.
  • Positive Award: Freddy Lozano and Jairo Quiroz Delgado, members of the Sintracarbón union . Other nominees were Jacek Kotula and Irene Fernandez .

2010

  • Swiss Award, People's Award: La Roche received the shameful award for researching and trading in China with the drug CellCept , which prevents the rejection of transplanted organs, even though the country is known for its questionable organ transplant policy . In the nomination text, the nominating declaration from Bern referred, among other things, to the fact that at the end of 2008 the Chinese Vice Minister of Health admitted in a medical journal that more than 90% of all transplanted organs came from executed prisoners. The use of such organs is rejected by the World Medical Association . According to Nomination, La Roche is researching the effects of her drug in two studies with around 300 transplanted organs, including in numerous Chinese clinics using the same organs. La Roche said the company did not know where the body parts came from. The company also pointed out that China passed a new transplant law in 2007, according to which prisoners or family members must consent to such a transplant and this must be confirmed by a court. As a result of the criticism, Triodos Bank took La Roche out of its equity portfolio.
  • Global Award: The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) invested US $ 20 billion in the extraction of oil from the Athabasca tar sands in Alberta, Canada in the last two years prior to the award ceremony . The nominating Rainforest Action Network stated that the Athabasca River is continuously being pumped out as much water as is used by a city of millions. Because of its toxicity, this water must then be stored in a specially built reservoir and, because of its toxic substances, leads to crippling in wild animals. According to the “Lautdatio”, the indigenous peoples in the region have seen an increasing number of previously unknown types of cancer.
  • Greenwash Award: The "CEO Water Mandate" (CWM) of the UN Global Compact , a non-binding, voluntary initiative of the world's largest drinking water companies such as Nestlé , Coca-Cola , Pepsi and Danone, was criticized . The CWM formulated minimum ecological and social standards for water trading without ensuring that the companies involved comply with these standards. The nomination was made by the Polaris Institute , a Canadian think tank .

2011

  • People's Award: Neste Oil is one of the largest palm oil buyers and agrofuel producers in the world and sold biodiesel made from palm oil across Europe under the name “Neste Green Diesel” . The main supplier of Neste Oil - the IOI Group - had doubled its palm oil concessions due to the demand, which, according to the nomination of the Dutch section of Friends of the Earth , resulted in land displacement and rainforest destruction in Indonesia and Malaysia . The IOI Group has also been accused of bribing local authorities in land expropriation lawsuits in Malaysia. It was also claimed that the CO 2 balance of Neste Oils fuel was worse than that of conventional diesel. According to Greenpeace, an attempt in Stuttgart with biofuel from Neste consumed 5 percent of global production. Neste Oil denied the allegations. The company is "one of the most responsible palm oil buyers in the world".
  • Jury Award: According to the “Public Eye” nomination, AngloGold Ashanti is poisoning the environment during gold mining in Ghana . Highly toxic mine waste would be stored in an uncontrolled and improper manner. Rivers and former cultivated land would be contaminated. AngloGold Ashanti would have received the worst possible rating for social and environmental protection from the Ghanaian environmental authority. An investigation ordered by the Norwegian government forced the mining company to start negotiations with the injured party and to compensate them.

2012

  • People's Award: According to the nomination text, Vale , the world's second largest mining company and the world's largest iron ore manufacturer, has repeatedly been guilty of human rights violations, inhuman working conditions and ruthless exploitation of nature in its 70-year history. Vale is involved in the variously criticized Belo Monte hydropower plant , which has resulted in forced relocations .
  • Jury Award: According to their nomination, Barclays is a food speculator . He was partly responsible for the fact that in the second half of 2010 44 million people worldwide were pushed into extreme poverty by rising food prices. The major British bank had lobbied the government in London against government regulations , while the market for agricultural index funds increased thirty-fold between 2003 and 2012. Barclays denied such an effect. In spring 2013, the bank withdrew from trading in agricultural index funds.

2013

  • People's Award: Royal Dutch Shell has been accused of completely removing renewable energy from its long-term strategy. It is the first oil company that wants to look for oil in ecologically sensitive Arctic regions. The search was only made possible by the “rapidly dwindling Arctic ice cover”, “precisely thanks to the effects of climate change”. Greenpeace activists blocked a Shell petrol station at the WEF to draw attention to their criticism.
  • Jury Award: Goldman Sachs has been accused of making profit from crises. The mortgage , banking and euro crises were named. For example, between 1998 and 2009 Goldman Sachs used booking tricks to hide half of Greece's national deficit for large fees. The bank earned at least 600 million US dollars from the crisis by the time it was nominated, and Greece owed the bank 400 million US dollars annually until 2037. The “Lautdatio” at the WEF was held by William K. Black , a former American banking regulator.

National Council President Maya Graf and Davos Mayor Tarzisius Caviezel visited the Public Eye on Davos.

2014

  • People's Award: More than 95,000 online voters gave Gazprom the “Audience Award” for their plans to drill for oil in the Arctic . The nomination came from Greenpeace Russia, whose representatives were unable to be present in Davos. Greenpeace director Kumi Naidoo accused Gazprom of being the first company in the world to pump oil from arctic waters, despite the company's disastrous safety record on land. In the previous year, Gazprom had 872 incidents, more oil spills than any other oil company in the world.

2015

  • Lifetime Award: Chevron had already received the Public Eye Jury Award in the category Environment in 2006 for the pollution of the jungle in northern Ecuador . In 1964, Texaco began oil exploration there in the Lago Agrio area . Production started in 1972 with partner Gulf Oil . In 1976 the Ecuadorian state became the majority owner of the company. A class action lawsuit against Chevron, Texaco's successor in title , led to legal proceedings in Ecuador in the United States. According to Amazon Watch, Chevron refused to pay the US $ 9.5 billion fine imposed on him by an Ecuadorian court. Chevron argued that Texaco had already paid compensation and that the pollution had continued after the takeover by the state-owned Petroecuador after the complete withdrawal from Texaco in 1992. The jury saw the Chevron case as an example of how transnational corporations "undermine the right to redress of those people whose human rights are violated by transnational corporations". Chevron received the Lifetime Award with over half of all votes.

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