Ad regulators lagging on climate

Pretty much every poll shows that Australians overwhelmingly support renewables and climate action.A recent YouGov poll of 15,000 Australians found 71% do not see coal or gas as part of our future energy mix and 61% support cutting greenhouse gas emissions by half by...

News Corp no hero in Mission Zero

We’ve got our first look at News Corp’s apparent green awakening and it’s a mixed start. The campaign was first leaked to Nine Newspapers as an about turn for the media giant which has long promoted climate denial and inaction.  Interestingly, the...

Complaint to Ad Standards – Positive Energy

The ‘positive energy’ campaign website includes a reference to ‘clean hydrogen’. https://www.positiveenergy.gov.au/clean-hydrogen Clean hydrogen is not a recognised form of hydrogen. According to the CSIRO, hydrogen is categorised by the use of colours. ‘Clean’...

New Clemenger boss’ links to fossil fuels

GRACosway calls itself Australia’s leading public affairs agency. It lobbies for miner, BHP, and Halliburton, which supplies oil field services. It also provides advice to Santos. The founder of GRACosway, Les Timar, has just been made CEO of the $500m...

Letter to polluting agencies

RE: YOUR WORK WITH GREENHOUSE GAS INTENSIVE CLIENTS Publicly available information has shown that your agency has worked with an organisation to promote the social licence, reputation or expansion of fossil fuels.  Because of this, you are listed on our website...

5 ways you could be greenwashing

You know those times when you really want to do the right thing but you have that creeping feeling that maybe, you’re not? Or when you’re writing a piece of copy for a client and you really want to show what a great job they’re doing, but you worry they may be part of...