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Article

27 Jan 2010

Author:
Berne Declaration and Greenpeace

Roche and the Royal Bank of Canada: Worthy Public Eye Award Winners

At the eleventh Public Eye in Davos, Greenpeace Switzerland and the BD have “honored” two corporations and an institution...The Royal Bank of Canada wins this year’s Global Award. Canada’s best-performing corporation is pilloried for its role as the world-leading financier of oil sands companies, which extract the dirtiest crude oil in the world in the province of Alberta...Roche cleaned up with two anti-Oscars: the Swiss Award and the People’s Award...Roche conducts clinical studies in China of its drug CellCept, developed to prevent organ rejection. However more than 90 percent of transplanted organs in China come from executed prisoners...The panel bestowed the newly-created Greenwash Award on the U.N. Water Mandate, launched within the framework of the Global Compact