[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Your multinational corporate pet hate?

[Patrick Bond]

LAST call for nominations

for the “Public Eye Awards 2007” at Davos



Dear colleagues



If you haven’t had time yet to nominate your companies you can still do 
so until Wednesday next week. If you need a few days more please let us 
know a.s.a.p!



With the conferring of the “Public Eye Awards” in 2006, the tradition 
continues. Once again the Berne Declaration and Pro Natura - Friends of 
the Earth Switzerland effectively reminded corporate bosses at the World 
Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos of their social and ecological 
responsibilities. As in the past, our “awards of disrepute” attracted 
considerable media attention and provoked corresponding reactions from 
the award-winning corporations. These facts demonstrate that the issue 
of corporate accountability continues to gain in importance on the 
public agenda.



And here we go again: With the “Public Eye Awards 2007,” we pick up 
where they left off and hereby invite you to participate in the primary 
anti-WEF event. This time we are looking for



1. Corporations that act (or have recently acted) in a particularly 
irresponsible manner, socially and/or ecologically, in the categories

- “GLOBAL PLAYERS” (including WEF corporate members)

- “SWISS COMPANIES” (from transnational corporations down to small- and 
medium-size firms)



2. Corporations displaying particularly responsible behavior, fitting of 
a role model, for the

- “POSITIVE AWARD”





PARTICIPATE AND WIN!

Minimal investment, maximum yield: Convince us on an A4 page, brief and 
to the point, why the corporation you nominate deserves which “Public 
Eye Award”. In return, we offer you the prospect of international media 
attention for your organization and your cause.



SUBMIT NOMINATIONS BY 20 SEPTEMBER 2006 TO

- Public Eye Awards c/o Berne Declaration, Postfach, 8031 Zurich, 
Switzerland

- publiceye at evb.ch

- Fax: +41 (0)44 277 70 01



FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

- www.publiceye.ch

- Oliver Classen, Tel: +41 (0)44 277 70 06



WHAT HAPPENS THEN?

The organizers will review all received proposals and present them to a 
jury. (For other details, including the composition of the jury, see 
www.publiceye.ch.) The jury will then produce a shortlist consisting of 
three outstanding cases from each of the three categories. If your 
nominee makes the shortlist, we will contact you in mid-October to 
assemble a more detailed dossier together. Based on those dossiers, the 
jury will select the prizewinners in mid-November. They will be 
“honored” in the setting of a prominently-attended awards ceremony in Davos.



All nine short-listed nominees will be presented at an international 
press conference in mid-January 2007 and announced simultaneously on 
www.publiceye.ch. If your nominee wins one of the three awards, you will 
join us on 24 January 2007 in Davos as a presenter at the WEF 
counter-event, at our expense.



Therefore colleagues on your marks... get set ... go Davos!



Many thanks for your participation and for spreading the word.





With best regards,

Oliver Classen
Coordinator, “Public Eye Awards”
Berne Declaration
e-mail: publiceye at evb.ch

Sonja Ribi
Project Manager, “International Politics”
Pro Natura - Friends of the Earth Switzerland
e-mail: sonja.ribi at pronatura.ch