Rechtbank oordeelt: KLM-marketing is misleidend
De rechtbank van Amsterdam heeft bepaald dat KLM’s marketing over duurzaam vliegen misleidend is.
Categorie: Deceptive advertising
Patriotic and pragmatic: how oil companies want to be seen in an uncertain Europe
A recent study by Solid Sustainability Research and master students from Utrecht University found that, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in […]
Dutch advertising watchdog: Shell must end advertising of deceptive CO2 compensation campaign
Shell will no longer be able to claim that customers filling up at its petrol stations can compensate for their car’s CO2 […]
Dutch advertising watchdog: KLM misleads with CO2-neutral claim and CO2ZERO program
The Dutch Advertising Code Committee (RCC) has ruled that the Dutch airliner KLM is misleading its customers by giving them the impression […]
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 […]
Advertising watchdog: Shell misleads with ads about ‘green’ hydrogen
Parliamentary questions were filed today about the need for a ban on fossil ads, following a ruling by the Dutch Advertising Code […]
Shell and NAM have major influence on museum content as sponsors
With relatively small amounts, Shell and NAM (gas extraction company owned by Shell and Exxon) exert a lot of influence on the […]
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.
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 […]
Students file complaint against Shell’s misleading adverts
AMSTERDAM – Law students at the VU University Amsterdam have filed a complaint against Shell with the Dutch Advertising Code Committee today. […]