Critics say corporate influence at COP27 is holding back progress on climate change
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Organizers of this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference have come under fire for making Coca Cola, one of the world's largest producers of plastic waste, a sponsor and hiring Hill+Knowlton Strategies, a company that helped the tobacco industry avoid regulation and has lobbied extensively for fossil fuel companies. In response, more than 400 scientists signed an open letter asking Hill+Knowlton to drop its affiliation with fossil fuel companies. Naomi Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University and a lead signatory on the open letter, says it's just one example of how the growing corporate influence at COP events is making it harder to address climate change.