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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Graeme Green and Karen McVeigh

Cop27 climate summit’s sponsorship by Coca-Cola condemned as ‘greenwash’

A plastic Coke bottle among seaweed and other flotsam on a beach
A Coke bottle washed up on Scotland’s isle of Mull. Break Free From Plastic’s audit found the company to be the world’s top plastic polluter for four years. Photograph: Will Rose/Greenpeace

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.

Cop27, to be held in the Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh from 6-18 November, is the world’s primary forum for governments, businesses and environmental organisations to tackle the climate emergency.

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