Badvertising is a campaign to stop advertising and sponsorships fuelling climate breakdown. It calls for a tobacco-style ban on ads that promote heavily polluting products and lifestyles. The campaign’s dedicated website is here: badverts.org.
New polling shows Winter Olympics fans want fossil fuel sponsors dropped as concern over snow loss surges One week ahead of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, new international polling reveals overwhelming public concern about the loss of snow and ice due to...
If someone saw a cigarette advert on London’s transport they would be shocked. But travellers are surrounded by adverts for high carbon, heavily polluting products, companies and lifestyles.
The top British papers will do more to promote polluting products and lifestyles during this year’s international climate talks, COP30 in Belém, Brazil, starting on 10 November, if they repeat what they did last year according to a new analysis of coverage of the previous talks, COP29 in 2024.
In a first-of-its-kind action, we’ve reported the world’s largest ad firm, WPP, to the international watchdog on corporate responsibility for breaking rules on climate and human rights and the impacts that result. Alongside...
A New Weather Institute report Dirty Tackle - the growing carbon footprint of football released today reveals that the carbon footprint of the global football industry is around the annual emissions of Austria or around 60% more than those of Uruguay, the nation that...
The New Weather Institute along with groups such as Scientists for Global Responsibility, Mums For Lungs, the Campaign for Better Transport, and the Badvertising and Adfree Cities campaigns have launched a new alliance to promote a manifesto for safer, fairer streets,...
The time is now to ask “uncomfortable questions” regarding sponsors who threaten the future of sport, says former Australian soccer captain Craig Foster Hear Team GB Paris Olympic champion, Imogen Grant, speak to the BBC Radio Today programme about the 'Dirty Money'...
Sporting Tales - our new book, just published - is about finding more imaginative ways to engage with the unprecedented challenges our times, and brings together a huge range of insight and imagination from elite athletes, academic experts, poets, artists and...
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...
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...