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Changes in Lobby Land
Fossil fuel companies have a proud tradition of lobbying against environmental laws and taxes that may dent their enormous profits. Following the 2022 federal election, Labor-aligned lobbyists are...
Glencore’s first brand campaign
One of Australia’s largest coal miners, and the world’s biggest exporter of thermal coal, has launched a brand campaign that doesn’t mention coal. It is the mining giant’s first national brand...
Australian First: Yarra Council moves to ban fossil fuel ads
Fossil Ad Ban campaign aims to stop sponsorships and promotions of coal, oil and gas Fossil fuels are the main causes of global warming and cause as many deaths as smoking worldwide Yarra City...
Yarra becomes first Australian council to debate restrictions on fossil fuel ads
Comms Declare has welcomed the announcement that Yarra City Council will debate restrictions on coal, oil and gas ads on Tuesday, 19th of April. In an Australian first, the Council will remove...
Ad Standards Ruling – ‘Positive Energy’ campaign
Ad Standards has rejected a third complaint from Comms Declare about the federal government’s Positive Energy campaign. Our complaint stated that the claims that Australia’s emissions had dropped by...
Media Release – ‘Positive Energy’ wins the F-list ‘Public Disservice Award’
Highly acclaimed agency, The Monkeys, has been honoured at the inaugural F-List awards in the U.S. It’s ‘Positive Energy’ campaign fought off stiff competition to claim the coveted ‘Public...
Media Release – Ad Agencies stark choice after IPCC Climate Impacts Report
Comms Declare calls for agencies to drop laggard clients – including the Federal Government The most comprehensive reportever into the impacts of climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on...
Chevron Buys Australia Day
Is there anything that says Australia Day more than an American petrochemical company? ‘ Chevron has been the ‘National Diversity & Inclusion Partner’ of the National Australia Day Council...
What we’ve learned about adland’s attitude to climate change
It’s our business to sprinkle pixie dust on our clients’ images and help them put their best foot forward. But when it comes to climate claims, agencies themselves can be off with the pixies,...
Edelman’s client review has everything except what matters most – dropping fossil fuel clients
Edelman has released the results of its global client review in a Friday night blog post. The review came after Edelman was named in the F-list by Comms Declare and Clean Creatives,...
Fuelling Fantasies – First report into adland’s response to the climate emergency
The 250,000-strong Australian creative sector is protecting our biggest polluters and hindering climate action The growth of the advertising sector is now outpacing the economy overall, being...
Ad Standards Response -‘Positive Energy’ Campaign
Read the response to our complaint over the use of the word ‘clean’ to describe blue hydrogen in the federal government’s ‘Positive Energy’ campaign. The $13m campaign included an ad produced by ad...
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...
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...
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...