A French court on Monday, February 13th, 2012, declared U.S. biotech giant Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer...
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Monsanto is a Global Compact participant since 2009/09/17. Monsanto was also a Gold contributor of the Foundation for the Global Compact in 2011 and 2010.
This blog provides information on how U.N. Global Compact participants' walk the talk. The GC is a voluntary initiative at the strategic level to engage businesses towards sustainability principles. There is however a risk of 'blue-washing' by covering up corporate misbehaviour and law infringement from large MNEs through poorly enforced 'Integrity Measures' and weak U.N supervision. Let's 'WE', civil society stay tuned!
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