There’s just one week left to vote on who deserves the Worst EU Lobbying Award for 2008, and the nominees are:

The agrofuels lobby (including MPOC, Unica and Abengoa) – nominated for their misleading campaigns to promote agrofuels as green;
The European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM) – nominated for hiding the involvement of big pharma corporations in their campaigns;
The European Business and Parliament Scheme (EBPS) – nominated for abusing their location and lobbying from inside Parliament offices;
Brussels-based lobbying and PR agencies Gplus and Aspect Consulting – nominated for supporting the spread of war propaganda in the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia;
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) – nominated for its deceptive lobbying campaign to avoid CO2 reduction obligations in the aviation sector.

See how the nominees reacted to their nominations here:

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What a refreshing change from the old order of US government, I hope that the UK will be maintaining their “special relationship” with US now that the shrub has been ousted. Who knows, Gordon Brown might even learn something from the new guy.

Watch this, you’ll like it. It gave me goosebumps.

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In just a few weeks time, MPs will vote on the Climate Change Bill and this is your final opportunity to have a say in what the UK’s response to climate change will be. You can do this by asking your MP to support amendments committing us to emissions cuts of at least 80% by 2050, and for the majority of cuts to be made in the UK. Click here to email your MP.

We know climate change is happening now.
We know we are reaching major global environmental tipping points.
We know we may lose control of global warming without tough commitments.
We demand that our political leaders make the right decisions. – WWF

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