A sponsorship deal between this year’s UN climate conference and Coca-Cola, which has been described as the “world’s top polluter” by an environmental group, has been branded “greenwash” by campaigners. Emma Priestland, a coordinator for Break Free From Plastic, a global alliance of organisations and individuals, said: “Coca-Cola sponsoring the Cop27 is pure ‘greenwash’. “Over four years, we’ve found Cola-Cola to be the world’s top plastic polluter in our annual brand audits,” she said. “Coca-Cola produces 120bn throwaway plastic bottles a year – and 99% of plastics are made from fossil fuels, worsening both the plastic and climate crisis,” he said. “If Coca-Cola really wants to solve the plastic and climate crisis, it needs to turn off its plastics tap.”

Source: Daily Nation October 05, 2022 03:43 UTC