If you want to know which companies to boycott in regards of climate change Future Heathrow, the lobby group pushing for a third runway, have just published an interesting list of companies supporting them [1].
With some of these companies it's hard to see how they don't suffer from some serious cognitive dissonance. Npower for instance have a whole section of their corporate responsibility web site dedicated to climate change issues [2]. Entitled "Moving to a low carbon economy" it has several subsections and they say, "it’s clear that we need to reduce our CO2 emissions in the long term". And airport expansion will help will it?
Another signatory is the Global Legal Services company DLA Piper. Last year they organised a whole conference on climate change in Sheffield and even had Al Gore as their star speaker [3]. Interesting that they find no contradiction with their commitment to tackling climate change and their support for Heathrow's third runway!
One signatory that's probably not worth bothering with is Merrill Lynch, the $1tn dollar company who was sold to the Bank of America for $50bn yesterday.
Anyway here's the full list 3rd runway supporters, courtesy of Future Heathrow. If enough people hassle these companies over this it might make them think again before joining such alliances in the future.
LIST OF SIGNATORIES:
Addleshaw Goddard
Alliance Boots
Amec
Amey
Arora
Asian Business Association
AstraZeneca
Avanta
Babcock
BAE Systems
Balfour Beatty
Barclays
Boeing
British American Tobacco
BBA Aviation
British Chambers of Commerce
British Hospitality Association
British Land
BT
Carillion
Carlton Partners
CBI
Clifford Chance
Cinven
Citi
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Construction Products Association
Compass Group
Corus
Costain
Counselage
Deloitte
Deutsche Bank
Diageo
Dial Consultants
DLA Piper
DWC Tang
EC Harris
Ernst and Young
EDS
Enterprise Inns
Freshfields Bruckhaus
Deringer
Friends Provident
First Group
Future Heathrow
GMB
Greenhill
Guoman Hotels
Hilton Hotels
Imperial Tobacco
IoD
JCA Group
JCB
JC Decaux
JER Partners
JP Morgan Cazenove
Laing O'Rourke
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
London Stock Exchange
Mace
Marshalls
MCM
Merrill Lynch
MMC
Nomura
Noon
NSG Group
Omnicom Group
Pendragon
Pirelli
QinetiQ
RioTinto
Rothschild
RWE npower
SAB Miller
The Sage Group plc
Stuart Aviation
Standard Chartered
Scottish Chambers of Commerce
Scottish Council for Development and Industry
Serco
Severn Trent
Siemens
Sodexo
Spencer Stuart
Tate & Lyle
The Blackstone Group
Thistle
Thomson Reuters
Tube Lines
TUC
Turner and Townsend
Thames Valley Economic Partnership
Ulster Bank Group
Unite
United Utilities
Whitbread
Whitehead Mann
West London Business
WPP Group
Wragge & Co LLP
[1]
http://www.futureheathrow.org/press-release.php?id=141
[2] http://www.npower.com/rwenpowercr/6_responsible_business/6_2_transition_to_low_carbon/6_2_2_reducing_carbon_footprint.html
[3] http://www.dlapiper.com/global/media/detail.aspx?news=2342
Another signatory is the Global Legal Services company DLA Piper. Last year they organised a whole conference on climate change in Sheffield and even had Al Gore as their star speaker [3]. Interesting that they find no contradiction with their commitment to tackling climate change and their support for Heathrow's third runway!
One signatory that's probably not worth bothering with is Merrill Lynch, the $1tn dollar company who was sold to the Bank of America for $50bn yesterday.
Anyway here's the full list 3rd runway supporters, courtesy of Future Heathrow. If enough people hassle these companies over this it might make them think again before joining such alliances in the future.
LIST OF SIGNATORIES:
Addleshaw Goddard
Alliance Boots
Amec
Amey
Arora
Asian Business Association
AstraZeneca
Avanta
Babcock
BAE Systems
Balfour Beatty
Barclays
Boeing
British American Tobacco
BBA Aviation
British Chambers of Commerce
British Hospitality Association
British Land
BT
Carillion
Carlton Partners
CBI
Clifford Chance
Cinven
Citi
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Construction Products Association
Compass Group
Corus
Costain
Counselage
Deloitte
Deutsche Bank
Diageo
Dial Consultants
DLA Piper
DWC Tang
EC Harris
Ernst and Young
EDS
Enterprise Inns
Freshfields Bruckhaus
Deringer
Friends Provident
First Group
Future Heathrow
GMB
Greenhill
Guoman Hotels
Hilton Hotels
Imperial Tobacco
IoD
JCA Group
JCB
JC Decaux
JER Partners
JP Morgan Cazenove
Laing O'Rourke
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
London Stock Exchange
Mace
Marshalls
MCM
Merrill Lynch
MMC
Nomura
Noon
NSG Group
Omnicom Group
Pendragon
Pirelli
QinetiQ
RioTinto
Rothschild
RWE npower
SAB Miller
The Sage Group plc
Stuart Aviation
Standard Chartered
Scottish Chambers of Commerce
Scottish Council for Development and Industry
Serco
Severn Trent
Siemens
Sodexo
Spencer Stuart
Tate & Lyle
The Blackstone Group
Thistle
Thomson Reuters
Tube Lines
TUC
Turner and Townsend
Thames Valley Economic Partnership
Ulster Bank Group
Unite
United Utilities
Whitbread
Whitehead Mann
West London Business
WPP Group
Wragge & Co LLP
[1]
http://www.futureheathrow.org/press-release.php?id=141 [2]
http://www.npower.com/rwenpowercr/6_responsible_business/6_2_transition_to_low_carbon/6_2_2_reducing_carbon_footprint.html [3]
http://www.dlapiper.com/global/media/detail.aspx?news=2342
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Barclays... now there's a surprise!
16.09.2008 12:28
Barclays are an excellent and easy target. Think about it. ALL of us will live near a barclays bank and / or cashpoint...
moneyman
BAE
16.09.2008 13:24
Ruby