Conservation International Greenwashing Scandal Exposed By Undercover Journalists

Brendan DeMelle DeSmog
onMay 11, 2011 @ 20:00 PDT

Conservation International is embroiled in a devastating scandal over the greenwashing services it offered to undercover British journalists posing as Lockheed Martin employees looking for help sanitizing the public image of the leading arms dealerโ€™s deadly weapons systems.ย 

The journalists from London-based outlet Donโ€™t Panic approached Conservation International (CI) with a truly outrageous request for its greenwashing services. In the video below, youโ€™ll learn from their undercover footage of meetings with a senior CI representative that CI was more than ready to help โ€œLockheedโ€ develop a program to greenwash its image, and the examples of what the CI rep dangled in front of the prospective clients must be seen to beย believed.

Watch below:

Weโ€™ve written extensively at DeSmogBlog over the years about greenwashing, but rarely has such a blatant greenwash operation been exposed like this one.

Read more about it at The Ecologist. And check out Donโ€™t Panic too.

Brendan DeMelle DeSmog
Brendan is Executive Director of DeSmog. He is also a freelance writer and researcher specializing in media, politics, climate change and energy. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, Grist, The Washington Times and other outlets.

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