Budget airline Easyjet claims to be ‘Working Towards Net Zero every day’, but is it? Our latest badvert of the month investigates. Airports are filing planning applications for expansion and airlines joyfully predicting massive increases in passenger numbers. At the...
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Unprepared – why disaster planning needs to go local
Lindsay Mackie introduces New Weather’s new pamphlet, Unprepared, co-authored with David Boyle and Andrew Simms, which argues that an age of climate disasters and system vulnerability needs a dynamic, new, locally run approach to preparedness and response If there...
Stockholm region bans fossil fuel adverts
The region of Stockholm has adopted Sweden's, and Scandinavia's, first ban on fossil fuel advertising. From January 2026, residents of the capital and other municipalities in the most populated region of Sweden will no longer have advertisements for fossil fuels and...
Badvert of the month (December): Coca-Cola
For this month’s Badvert, we have something slightly different than our usual focus on airlines, cars and fossil fuel companies. As we have directed our focus towards other harmful types of advertising in recent months (see, for example, our Emerging Issues in...
Bad Sport Awards 2023: winners announced
The overall winner of this year’s awards was Saudi Arabia following the Kingdom’s decisive and vast push into the global sports industry through a number of investments and commercial partnerships. Other awards were handed to Shell, TotalEnergies and British Gas,...
Badvert of the month (November): BMW
Company: BWM Location: Brussels, November 2023 Following a recent flurry of adverts for electric vehicles (EVs) by some of the world’s largest carmakers, one could be mistaken that these companies are taking decarbonisation as a serious matter. The reality is rather...
Economic prospects in 2024: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey
Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in store for the UK. The New Weather Institute is part of that survey published in the paper today, and here are our responses collected together....
Oily ads will continue to slip out of the reach of regulators
A second ban on ads for Repsol within just five months has raised eyebrows and serious questions about the ability of advertising regulation to keep greenwashing in check. Back in June, when the ASA banned a suite of ads for three of the world’s largest oil and gas...
We all need to be triumphant at the ticket office decision. This is why.
The glorious victory by 750,000 people, orchestrated by very skilful trades unions, to keep railway station ticket offices open, is important for a whole number of reasons - not just the obvious ones of convenience to passengers and the retention of accumulated...
Somerset takes the lead banning high carbon adverts
Somerset Council has just adopted a new advertising policy, specifically targeted at the adverts placed on 120 roundabouts populating their estate. The policy is by far the most ambitious passed by any council when it comes to addressing high-carbon...