Often advertised with imagery of pristine natural habitats and beautiful oceans, cruise ships are in fact well known to be some of the world’s largest polluters, going as far as outpacing flying in terms of carbon emissions per passenger. Even the most efficient...
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The Ministry for the Climate Emergency says – we’ve all got ‘planes on the brain’
Following the first public health warning from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency about the dangers of brain pollution – its new public health information campaign sheds light on the latest ‘commerciogenic’ disease plaguing our societies: ‘Planes on the Brain’...
New legal advice supports councils taking action to ban polluter ads
New legal advice commissioned by the New Weather Institute for Badvertising and Adfree Cities gives local authorities the green light to end high-carbon advertising on the advertising sites they control. This new legal opinion provides assurance to councils that they...
Gothenburg, the next Swedish city to ban fossil fuel advertising?
Last fall, the municipality of Stockholm announced it would introduce a fossil ad ban, prohibiting “all advertising, sponsorship and other collaborations that drive fossil fuel use”. The city of Gothenburg has recently taken a similar decision; namely "to draw...
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How to save the Royal Mail
It’s a commonplace to say now that the government got it all wrong when it tried to demonise strikes and strikers – that the public mood was misread and in fact people across the UK know exactly why strikes are happening, and they agree with the reasons behind...
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This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
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