03 Oct 2022 --- The Coca-Cola Company has evoked ridicule after announcing its sponsorship of the 27th annual UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) in partnership with Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The conference will take place between November 6 and 18 in Sharm-El Sheikh, Egypt. Greenpeace USA finds it “baffling [that] the world’s biggest plastic polluter” will sponsor the event. “This partnership with Coca-Cola negates the very objective of the climate COP. This climate meeting is called the African COP, yet corporations like Coca-Cola, working hand in hand with the fossil fuel industry, are flooding Africa with plastic,” Greenpeace USA oceans campaign director John Hocevar tells PackagingInsights.
