fossil fuels
UN chief calls for ban on fossil fuel ads to combat climate change
UN secretary-general António Guterres has directly called for PR agencies to stop working with fossil fuel clients, and ‘acting as enablers to planetary destruction’.
Activists 'hack' billboards to protest against Shell advertising
OOH campaign by Brandalism precedes Shell’s London AGM this month.
Extinction Rebellion targets Edelman staff in protest fronted by ex-employee
Extinction Rebellion protested outside Edelman’s London office yesterday, hand-delivering letters to staff and installing a ‘green-washing line’ which asked the agency to ‘cut the ties with fossil fuels’.
More than 450 scientists call on PR, creative agencies to drop fossil fuel clients
The open letter, released through Clean Creatives and the Union of Concerned Scientists, calls for an end to campaigns that "obfuscate or downplay our data and the risk of the climate emergency." It's the latest salvo between Clean Creatives and Edelman.
Celebrities and influencers urge Edelman to drop fossil-fuel clients in open letter
Agency CEO has denied Edelman has worked to undermine climate-change regulation.
11 coming signs advertising is ready for its reckoning with fossil fuels
There is a gulf between the way agencies talk about working with fossil fuel clients and the story told by the money spent by those companies.
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