When you watch a game of football or live coverage of a ski competition, you are forced to see huge numbers of fossil ads. Airlines, oil and gas companies and also fossil cars are sponsoring more and more sport events all around the world. Sport fans, athletes and campaigners are calling for a ban on […]
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We will be convening for our fourth Ban Fossil Ads webinar called ‘Questioning ads: history & tactics of the adbusting movement’. We will hear from artist and activist Michelle Tylicki about the rich and long history of the adbusting (also called subvertising, brandalism, anti-ad direct action) movement around the world. Why did activist take to the
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We will be convening for our third Ban Fossil Ads webinar called \’Mirroring the tobacco strategy: Health care workers ban fossil ads\’. We will learn about the historical fight against tobacco advertising and draw lessons for our fight against fossil ads. Which campaigns are currently active, what are their successes and what advice do they
After a successful first webinar in May, introducing new and familiar faces and exchanging useful experiences, we will be diving deeper into the legal and policy aspect of fossil ad bans. This time, we will have Clemens Kaupa, Assistant Professor EU Law at VU Amsterdam joining us to discuss local, national & EU level bans.
After many European signatures were collected during the ECI, a successful Ban Fossil Ads conference in Amsterdam last March, and with the European elections coming up already next year, it is time to give the European momentum around fossil ad bans another boost. Reclame Fossielvrij (Fossil Free Advertising) and Badvertising Sweden are therefore hosting a series of webinars with the
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C40, a global network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities on climate action, hosted a webinar on high-carbon advertising. City officials, policy makers and researchers from all over the world joined one of the two timezone sessions. Femke Sleegers joined in from Reclame Fossielvrij, next to spokepeople from the Global Climate and
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was launched today. The last few years have seen a sharp increase in legal cases, campaigns and direct action taken towards fossil ads. And with success: cities like Amsterdam, Sydney and Stockholm are banning fossil ads. ‘There is no way of stopping this snowball. The question is not whether fossil ads will be banned, but when.’
Shell will no longer be able to claim that customers filling up at its petrol stations can compensate for their car’s CO2 emissions,ruled the Dutch Advertising Code Committee (RCC) today. The complaint was filed by university lecturer Clemens Kaupa (VU), Greenpeace the Netherlands and Advertising Fossil Free. Last year the RCC ruled that Shell’s concept
What role can the World Health Organization play in a global convention banning fossil advertising? In the webinar \”Tobacco Law for the fossil fuel industry\”, a policy expert from the UK, an activist from the Niger Delta, a lawyer from the UK and a doctor from Egypt explored the possibilities. The speakers agreed on the
The Dutch Advertising Code Committee (RCC) has ruled that the Dutch airliner KLM is misleading its customers by giving them the impression that they can fully neutralise their flight if they buy compensation. By using terms such as \’CO2ZERO\’ and \’CO2-neutral\’, the average consumer will wrongly think that, through reforestation projects, their flight has no
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