@badvertising.bsky.social
Stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency. Find out more & take action: http://badverts.org
It’s time for publicly owned space to protect, not threaten, public health.
✍️ Contact your local councillor to ask them to stop promoting harmful industries. 2/2
Each year, human ingenuity cures some of the world’s most deadly diseases. 🧪
Yet when science tells us to stop polluting the planet, we continue to promote the industries responsible. 🤔
'We can', a new pamphlet by the Ministry for the Climate Emergency. 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
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Society achieved amazing things that at first seem impossible - from creating the internet, to mapping the human genome.
If we can do all of that, a fossil fuel ad ban is simple. 👍
Tell your council to lead the way. 👇
We banned tobacco advertising when the science was clear. 🚭
Yet ads from other harmful industries - fossil fuels, airlines, SUV makers - are still normalised.
It's odd. It's dangerous. But it's entirely fixable. 2/3
🚨 Announcement from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 🚨
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
🥵 While sporting bodies are starting to understand the risks, we need them to take the next step and stop advertising their own destruction, by ending the polluting ads and sponsorships that are making the situation worse.
🔥 Head to badverts.org to get involved
🏉 Last summer, World Rugby also became one of the first global sports governing bodies to publish a report on the impact of climate breakdown
resources.worldrugby-rims.pulselive.com/worldrugby/d...
🌡️The UK is also not immune. Last year, the Met Office published climate projections for several events staged in Britain.
The data forecast potential rises in daily minimum and maximum temperatures across all the events by 2050.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2024/ch...
This follows the The Pitches in Peril report, which found that 10 of the 16 venues in the United States, Canada and Mexico were at very high risk of extreme heat stress conditions
www.common-goal.org/Stories/Pitc...
⚽️ & Fifa vice president Victor Montagliani, on matches kicking off later to avoid the heat.
"Kick-off times are always an issue in our region because summers are hot in Canada and US"
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Gianni Infantino on changing when World Cups are played 👇
(if only he'd be open to ending relationships with human rights-abusing petrostates like Saudi Arabia, huh!)
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
🥵 Lord Coe on changing the Olympic calendar:
“I’m not sure that we can go on asking some of our endurance-based athletes to be competing at times of the year which are really going to hit their performances and are probably putting them at risk"
www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...
👀🔥 It seems like sporting bodies are finally starting to understand the major risks the climate crisis poses to global athletes and fans alike.
🌍 Here's how some of the world’s biggest tournaments may need rescheduling...
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2025/1...
The FIFA President once held up a “green card for the planet” and promised to halve its emissions by 2030 🌍
But years of cosying up to Putin, the rulers of Qatar, MBS and President Trump have ensured the world’s favourite sport is a plaything for oil funded authoritarians 🛢️
FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize" 🏆
As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵
We are also calling on TfL to act on polluting advertising across the transport network, following tobacco ad bans of the past.
It’s time to end polluting sponsorships and advertising across all public and cultural spaces.
👉 get involved at www.badverts.org/fossil-ads
But one question remains: how long will @britishmuseum.bsky.social wait to follow the evidence and drop BP?
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
🌿Last month @museumsassociation.org voted for a code of ethics to end sponsorship by “organisations involved with environmental harm, including fossil fuels, human rights abuses, and other sponsorship that does not align with the values of the museum”.
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
JTI’s name was recently removed from the museum’s website, on the same day as the release of a report from the Tobacco Control Research Group, revealing the sponsorship deal was a key part of the firm’s lobbying strategy.
globaltobaccoindex.org/country/GB
The Times reports that the Department of Health and Social Care told DCMS that the deal could be a breach of the World Health Organisation’s framework convention on tobacco control, which bars states from advertising and promoting smoking products.
fctc.who.int/resources/pu...
🚨 Another toxic sponsor gone from our cultural spaces, as
@britishmuseum.bsky.social ends ‘deeply troubling’ sponsorship from Japanese tobacco firm after breach of World Health Organisation guidelines.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
That's why we need a televised national emergency briefing to cut through the noise.
Sign the open letter calling on Kier Starmer and public service broadcasters to do just that. ✍️👇 5/5
Every day, we are bombarded with adverts. While the numbers vary, it is likely the average smartphone user sees thousands of ads per day. 📱
And while we may not remember any of the ads we see each day, research proves that they influence our behaviour. 4/5
Climate inaction is served as much by fossil fuel advertising as it is by media disinformation.
Where ads normalise pollution, misleading information around climate breakdown reframes science as a political talking point. 🤥 3/5
Recent research from Clean Creatives revealed that fossil fuel companies alone spend an estimated $7 billion annually on advertising and PR.
This is a huge sum and does not include the vast sums spent by industries dependent on fossil fuels. 🚗💨 2/5
@cleancreatives.bsky.social
Last week, leading experts briefed politicians and civil society groups on the impacts of climate breakdown.
In a media landscape saturated with disinformation and polluter ads, experts called on politicians to stand by the science. 🧵 1/5
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Black Friday’s ad onslaught is looming. 😬
Thankfully, Subvertisers International are highlighting the most creative actions against outdoor ads and hyper-consumerism at the ZAP awards night.
⏰ Sat, 6pm
📍 Jago Bar, 440 Kingsland Rd, London - free entry
🚨 "While fans fight fires, UEFA fuels the flames"
In the latest piece on Cool Down, Fossil Free Football analyse the Champions League's outsized contribution to climate breakdown.
Some highlights. 🧵
Fossil fuel PR and ad agencies like Edelman are relied upon by the industry for slowing climate action.
That's why we are taking on WPP - another one of the world's largest polluter agencies.
The campaign: www.badverts.org/wpp
Join the movement. 👇
actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
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