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This blog originally appeared as a newsletter. If you’d like to receive updates from Adfree Cities as they happen then you can join our mailing list here. On September 13, The Hague, in The Netherlands, became the world’s first city to outlaw fossil fuel ads. The new law, or ordinance, affects all outdoor advertising sites across the city and…Continue reading Fossil ads BANNED in The Hague
Following a complaint by Adfree Cities, adverts for fossil fuel giant Shell have today been banned by the UK’s advertising watchdog for making misleading green claims. …Continue reading Greenwashing Shell adverts banned by watchdog
Taken from a talk given by Robert Noyes, a researcher at climate and social justice collective Platform, and a coordinator of UK Divest – a nationwide campaign to end fossil fuel finance and build the movement for a fossil free world….Continue reading Behind the Greenwash: Robert Noyes explains how advertising obscures the role of fossil fuel companies in climate change
Adblock Lambeth has launched a campaign against advertising that promotes harmful products and services. We have written to all councillors in the borough asking them to support a ban of any outdoor advertising for junk food (HFSS, or High in Fat Salt or Sugar), alcohol, gambling, payday loans and highly environmentally polluting products (such as…Continue reading Stop advertising harmful products in Lambeth