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Article

24 Aug 2002

Author:
Reuters

Business flourishes at Johannesburg summit

If the "People's Village" at the Earth Summit is any measure, big business has successfully muscled in on a convention to help the world's poor...Visitors to the vast exhibition tent...are assailed by glossy corporate brochures and snappy video clips vaunting the environmental and social awareness of some the world's biggest energy and utilities corporations...Oil giant BP Plc, which green groups branded on Friday as the best firm at using environmental veneer to disguise continued poor practice, had a smart stand promoting its green power projects. "Generally I think society is genuinely keen to support those efforts," said Craig Bennett of Friends of the Earth International. "What we don't condone is when they use those genuine projects...to suggest the whole company has changed."