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At UN, Global Compact's Coke and
Nestle Under Fire, Advisor Barlow a Transparently Cheap Date
Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of
Inner City Press at the UN: News Analysis
UNITED NATIONS,
December 9 -- Coca-Cola's claim to
be water neutral is not credible, and the UN's Global Compact is little
more
than "blue-washing," the UN's new water adviser, Maude Barlow, told
the Press on Tuesday. Inner City Press asked her and General Assembly
President
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann if during this year they will take on the
Global
Compact, to try to make it have some standards. Doesn't the Compact
ultimately
answer to the General Assembly? Video
here,
from Minute 15:08.
Barlow
denounced not only Coke but also Pepsi, as well as Nestle and other
"water
hunters," as she called them, which take water from aquifers and "put
it in plastic and sell it all over the world." Barlow said she opposes
bottle water. D'Escoto said that the "murky" role of corporations in
the field of water must be clarified or distilled. But what about the
Compact?
Maude Barlow, cheap date in reflecting
mirror, focus on Global Compact to be seen
But Barlow
did go further than other advisors and UN envoy in clarifying finances.
Inner
City Press asked her what part of her travel and mandate are paid by
the UN.
Hotel and airfare, she answered, adding "I'm a cheap date." Unlike,
it must be said, the UN Millennium Project's Eveline
Herfkens...
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