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Have 30 years of COP changed the world or just the rhetoric?
SOUNDING BOARD: Despite cheaper renewables and mainstream net-zero, emissions are up 65% and extreme weather cost $1.5 trillion last year. With COP30 in the Amazon, the ad industry faces mounting scrutiny over fossil-fuel work and its widening credibility gap.
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If no fossil fuel company is transitioning, what exactly are agencies defending?
Clean Creatives’ Duncan Meisel hits back at claims the F-List is “flawed,” arguing that cutting fossil fuel clients is both ethical and smart business.
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Clean Creatives accuses five B Corp agencies of fossil fuel deals
Clean Creatives names SEC Newgate, Tinkle Communications, Cullen Communications, Edit, and Total Media in a report alleging fossil-fuel ties, but three agencies contest the findings, citing transparency and past disclosures.
Working for Big Oil? Take a lesson from Vero's climate conscious creativity
Leaders from Vero and On Purpose, the first Asia-based PR agencies to sign the Clean Creatives pledge, wish more businesses stood by the industry's moral imperative against fossil fuel influence; saying that prioritising integrity over profit is a decision worth celebrating.
Beyond greenwashing: B Corps' moral imperative to reject Big Oil
"It's hard to run an agency. Not every client you take on is going to be a passion project, still, no agency should be taking on fossil fuel clients, especially not the B Corps, and definitely not in the hottest year of human history," writes Clean Creatives' Duncan Meisel.
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Clean Creatives targets Richard Edelman at Cannes
Clean Creatives members held placards pointing at agency boss Richard Edelman during the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity yesterday as part of a campaign to stop PR agencies working with fossil fuel corporations.
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