Strong correlation between rising global temp/CO2 & the number of UK people slammed in jail for climate action. It's like locking up ambulance drivers for trying to save lives. The UK once gloried in its freedom to protest versus oppressive Eastern Europe. theguardian.com/world/2024/dec…

🚨 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 - 2024 There have been some huge milestones in the campaign for a high-carbon advertising ban this year. As we near 2025, we're looking back at some of this year's big moments. Here are a few highlights from the first half of 2024. 🧵

🚨 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 - 2024 We’re looking back at some of this year’s key moments in the campaign against high-carbon advertising. Here are some highlights from the second half of 2024. 🧵

They say football is the beautiful game, but it can be a dirty one too, and in ways that you might not imagine. We've discovered that the game's dirtiest secret could be in how it lets itself be a billboard for some of the world's worst polluters... follow the 🧵👇

The world’s biggest ad firm, WPP, says its climate-friendly but last year had the most fossil fuel contracts of any agency. We just reported them to the international watchdog on corporate responsibility for breaking rules on climate & human rights👇 independent.co.uk/climate-change…

The failure of business regulation (and economics) comes down to this, it allows profiteering to overrule preserving the conditions for life. BBC News - BP to slash green investment and ramp up gas and oil bbc.com/news/articles/…

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝗱 In 'Stranded Fans' we reveal the alarming cost to fans' pockets and the planet when they cannot get home after the final whistle. Here are some of the key findings. 💡🧵 Full research: cooldownclimate.org/resources/stra…

Folks - we are SO close to getting the needed 100,000 signatures by May 12th for Chris Packham's petition to ban polluter ads - please share and sign if you haven't to help it over the line... 👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…

If children eat more after seeing just 5 mins of junk food ads, imagine what constant exposure to ads for SUVs, flights & high carbon lifestyles does to people's climate impacts. Time to stop promoting our own self destruction & have a tobacco-style ad ban theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

Hot news - literally heating the planet - from our partners in South Africa about the Comrades Marathon 👇 with words from the wonderful Damo Taylor.bsky.social & human running miracle Jasmin Paris... TheGreenRunners Runner's World UK AW BBC Sport Sport Positive

The oil company behind Rosebank - the UK’s biggest untapped oilfield - has been quietly targeting children in UK schools with a fossil fuel–friendly computer game. 🛢️🎮 This is cyber greenwashing - the new and disturbing tactic of polluting industries. 🧵 thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-0…

As fans & players swelter in dangerous heat, FIFA makes itself a billboard promoting the very polluters heating the planet, like oil giant Aramco (& the competition sponsored by car maker/major polluter Honda) as bad if not worse than tobacco sponsorship theguardian.com/football/2025/…

🚨 We're kicking off London Climate Action Week with Ad Brake. Join Badvertising’s Robbie Gillett alongside a lineup of whistleblowers, journalists & creatives exploring how to take on polluter ads. 🗓️ Mon 23 June, 6–8pm 📍 Curzon Soho 🎟️ Register now: londonclimateactionweek.org/event/ad-brake…

🚨Temps will near 40°C (104°F) for Benfica vs Bayern, showing how climate breakdown is already endangering players, fans & the game itself. Fossil fuel sponsors, rising emissions & extreme heat risks are all part of the bigger picture. 🧵 Full story 👉 nytimes.com/athletic/64380…

🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: TotalEnergies to sponsor two teams in the 2025 Tour de France... and the Tour itself until 2028. The Tour is becoming increasingly dependent on Total, a company with a violent and polluting reputation that it would like to distract from. 🧵 #TDF2025

🚨 𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧: On Mon 7 July, MPs will debate a ban on fossil fuel ads and sponsorship. This is a pivotal moment for the UK to tackle Big Oil like it did Big Tobacco. ✉️ Ask your MP to show up. It takes just 2 mins. 👉 Use our email template tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/urgent…

My friend, the brilliant Matt Rendell, reveals the cynicism of fossil fuel sponsorship - aka sports/greenwash - in elite cycling. It's everywhere in sport, like tobacco sponsorship once was, but feels worse in cycling that should be pedalling forward the green transition...👇👇👇

Matt Rendell @[email protected] does a powerful job calling out the pervasive and toxic, yet normalised sportswash by big, polluting fossil fuel sponsors in elite cycling (as in sport more generally). Important broadcasting and proper journalism where it is needed... 👇

The ICJ ruled states may be liable if failing to act on non-climate compliant fossil fuel industries. It is a very small step to the same applying to sectors co-dependent on fossil fuels, like aviation, SUV makers and, even advertisers. New The Ecologist theecologist.org/2025/jul/29/le…

🚨 𝗔 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 Andrew Simms of Badvertising breaks down a major ruling by the International Court of Justice for the Ecologist. Here's why the ICJ ruling marks a turning point for climate action. 🧵 theecologist.org/2025/jul/29/le…