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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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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