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The London 2012 sustainability watchdog embroiled in a row over the sponsorship of the Olympic Stadium by Dow Chemical is to pus
The London 2012 sustainability watchdog embroiled in a row over the sponsorship of the Olympic Stadium by Dow Chemical is to pus
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2011-02-03
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The London 2012 sustainability watchdog embroiled in a
row
over the sponsorship of the Olympic Stadium by Dow Chemical is to push the International Olympic Committee to appoint an "ethics champion" for future Games.
The Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 has been bruised by criticism over Dow’s sponsorship of the wrap that will surround the Olympic stadium, particularly since commissioner Meredith Alexander last month resigned in protest.
Campaigners believe that Dow has ongoing liabilities relating to the 1984 Bhopal disaster that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 20,000 people and the serious injury of tens of thousands more. Dow, which bought the owner of the plant in 2001, insists that all liabilities have been settled in full.
Commission chairman Shaun McCarthy said that its tight sustainability remit did not extend to acting as moral guardians of the Olympic movement but that it would press for such a role to be created when evaluating sponsors for future Games.
In addition to sponsoring the £7m wrap that will surround the Olympic Stadium, Dow has a separate $100m sponsorship deal with the IOC that was signed in 2010.
But McCarthy also defended the commission’s role in evaluating the Dow deal, after Amnesty International wrote to London 2012 chairman Lord Coe to raise the issue.
"What has been lost in all of this story is that a really excellent, sustainable product has been procured. We looked at Locog’s examination of Dow Chemical’s current corporate responsibility policies and, again, Dow achieved the highest score in that evaluation. We verified that," said McCarthy.
"As far as the history is concerned and issues around Bhopal, there is no doubt Bhopal was a terrible disaster and some injustice was done to the victims. Who is responsible for that injustice is a matter for the courts and a matter for others. We have a specific remit and terms of reference that we operate under and we have operated diligently under those terms."
The commission will on Thursday release its annual review. It finds that "good progress" has been made towards many of Locog’s sustainability targets, but that "major challenges" remain.
In particular, the commission found that there was no coherent strategy to achieve a 20% reduction in carbon emissions after an earlier scheme to use renewable energy fell through when a wind turbine on the site proved impractical.
"We had conversations with Locog over a year ago about this and said they had to demonstrate how they were going to achieve at least 20% carbon reductions through energy conservation if they’re not going to do it through renewable energy," said McCarthy. "There are some good initiatives, but quite frankly they just haven’t done it."
From The Guardian, February 9, 2012
What is Paragraph Four mainly about?
选项
A、commission’s role
B、commission’s achievements
C、commission’s complaints
D、commission’s defence
答案
D
解析
本题为细节题。第四段意为:委员会主席Shaun McCarthy说他们的可持续监管并不涉及奥运会的道德监护,但是会敦促在评估将来奥运会的赞助商时具有这个职能。所以他是想在上面提到的陶氏事件中的关于道德问题撇清自己的机构。而不是详细介绍机构职能,或是公布其成就或发牢骚,所以选项D正确。
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