The stealthy influence of corporate polluters shapes how countries respond to the climate crisis, particularly when they are operating in concert with the world’s most important conference on the issue.
of plastics in the world. So why is it one of the sponsors of the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt, known as COP27? The answer is insidious, and, unfortunately, this is not the only shady corporate-climate confluence happening this month in Sharm El-Sheikh.
In plainer speak: “It’s like putting Philip Morris in charge of tobacco negotiations,” Jamie Henn, the founder of Clean Creatives, told the. The group puts pressure on PR and advertising agencies to stop working with fossil fuel companies. “The real deals are handled indoors, you know, in closed rooms,” Bobby Banerjee, a management professor at City University of London’s Bayes Business School, told The Associated Press. Bannerjee has been to three climate conferences. At his first one, he couldn’t get into a meeting about emissions in the mining industry, “But guess what?” he said.
AP that she is “really shocked at the amount of corporates attending the conference,” adding that she has seen “open participation between CEOs and climate negotiating delegations in these conversations.”
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