November 11, 2022
Climate coca colonisation irks MP
Green MP Teanau Tuiono says he’s concerned at corporate influence on the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Greens’ co-leader and Climate Change Minister James Shaw is in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El Sheikh for COP 27, where for the first time there will be discussions on who should pay for the damage to poorer countries from climate change.
Mr Tuiono says the last COP was the scene of vigorous lobbying from fossil fuel industries, and this event is sponsored by Coca Cola.
“I saw that as coca colonisation of the climate space but I get it – it’s expensive to pull these meetings and it is really important governments get together to have these discussions, where else are they going have them, but I do worry about corporations having an influence – by being sponsored by Coca Cola doesn’t sound like you had enough cash to get people together,”he says.
Teanau Tuiono.