Lake Health and Wellbeing has joined 59 other health-related organisations from across the world to call on Simon Stiell, the Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to rethink Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of COP27.
COP27 is the United Nations Climate Change Conference, and it brings world leaders together to not only discuss, but to take action towards, achieving the global climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement. The sponsorship of the event by Coca-Cola, one of the world’s leading plastic polluters and thus a major contributor to climate change, is at odds with the objectives and ethos of the conference. Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the conference gives them an influential voice on the policies and strategies being developed to tackle climate change, which is a clear conflict of interest, and it gives them a very high-profile platform on which to promote their environment- and health-harming products.
We are calling on Simon Stiell to limit the influence of health- and environment-harming industries by developing strict guidelines on the types of companies that sponsor future climate change conferences. This will ensure that companies do not influence the policymaking process and that the public’s interest, and not corporate interests, remains the focus of events like these.
The open letter, including the list of signatories, can be downloaded below.
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