Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

180 countries adopt landmark public health decisions: To hold tobacco industry legally liable for tobacco harms

November 12, 2016 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

GREATER NOIDA, INDIA—After one week of heated negotiations and intrigues, governments representing nearly more than 90 percent of the world’s population who attended the seventh session of the World Health Organization’s global tobacco treaty negotiations in New Delhi adopted policies that will protect public health over the narrow interests of the tobacco industry. These […]

Corporate interference undermining climate policy progress …As CSOs initiate kick big polluters campaign ahead of Paris talks

October 21, 2015 Leave a Comment

Bonn, Germany: On the heels of new findings that corporate influence is undermining climate policy progress globally and a U.S. Congressional call for an investigation into ExxonMobil, civil society is mounting a historic campaign to jettison polluters from climate policy making. The campaign and new global platform called Kick Big Polluters Out is being launched […]