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Shell may not call itself \”driver of the energy transition”, rules Dutch ad watchdog

The Advertising Code Committee in The Netherlands considers it “unjustifiable\” that Shell presents itself in advertisements as \”driver – let alone one of the biggest drivers – of renewable energy\”. The advertising watchdog announced this to the complainant this week. Last Thursday, Shell was already reprimanded twice for other misleading phrases in the same advertising […]

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Law students\’ complaint upheld – Shell advertisements with claim \’CO2 neutral\’ are misleading

Shell advertisements with the claim \”CO2 neutral\” are misleading, the Dutch Advertising Code Committee (Reclame Code Commissie) ruled today in two cases against the oil giant. The Advertising Code Committee agrees with the students\’ argument that Shell\’s compensation measures will never even out the environmental damage of CO2. The damage of CO2 to the climate is certain, while the oil and gas multinational can never guarantee how much and how long forest conservation and planted trees retain CO2 from the air.

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Daniel LeBlanc

Threats after Canadian proposal to ban fossil fuel sponsoring: “The oil and gas companies showed their full power”

Canadian council member Daniel LeBlanc received threats and lost his daytime job after suggesting a sponsoring ban for the fossil fuel industry earlier this year. In the Canadian city of Regina – in the Provence of Saskatchewan, that is known for its tar sands – oil and gas companies and their allies made themselves heard

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Greenwashing Shell: net doen of ze genoeg bomen planten de CO2-uitstoot van fossiele brandstof te compenseren.

Legal publication: total ban needed for advertisements from the fossil fuel industry

Advertising by the fossil fuel industry is inherently harmful and misleading. Just as tobacco advertising is. The industry is unable to stop the deception with self-regulation. Therefore, it is time for fossil fuel advertising to be treated in the same way as tobacco: with a total ban. This is what assistant professor Clemens Kaupa (Vrije

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Unprecedented: ban on fossil fuel ads in SIX (!) Dutch election manifestos

The Netherlands takes the lead in a ban on advertising and marketing by fossil fuel industry. Today members of the ChristenUnie (Christian Union) voted to include such a ban in their election manifesto. With this decision there are now five Dutch political parties that argue for a ban on climate-damaging advertising. This is unprecedented. In

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