It's not that crazy: Scenario: the product you make needs plastic packaging. You want to do as best you can with the constraint that you will keep shipping product. So you sponsor a climate conference to get ideas on what you can improve.
The option of "don't ship product" is not an option. Given that, what can you do instead?
(And please spare me the cynical explanation of why it does make sense from a cynical climate conference's perspective.)
What kind of ideas does sponsoring give you access to that you wouldn't get otherwise?
But if the conference is smaller or doesn't exist because it can't afford to...
As such they end up accumulating most of the wealth, at the expense of everyone and everything else - including our biosphere.
Wealth is power. It is literally a contract to make people do as one says.
Corporations use this power to encode their advantages in laws - laws that all of us are bound to follow, despite having no consent in creating them.
Sociopathic entities will do anything without perception of morals. Sponsoring an environmental conference must be good for perception and that must be good for business.
We humans have magnified and empowered and deitified some of the scariest tendencies of our minds and turned them into unstoppable entities of epic proportions. Now we walk amongst these demons of our own creation, somehow hypnotized in accepting the global destruction they cause as completely normal.
This is nothing new for anyone here - and we all go about our days.
They're making it so obvious that the 'ruling class' are going to place the entire burden of climate change reduction on the less well-off parts of society, people for whom the loss of their car will be devastating, people who can barely afford to heat their homes already, people who can only dream of the hugely expensive green tech (EVs, solar, heat pumps, etc) being sold to the middle-class and up as some sort of solution.
It doesn’t mean I should give up caring about the pollution I generate.