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The F-list: Global report on 90 ad and PR agencies promoting fossil fuels
Is your agency enchanted by fossil fuel clients? A global report on the damaging effects of promoting fossil fuels has singled out Australia as being uniquely compromised by agencies lobbying for...
Future Leaders Climate Survey
The advertising and marketing leaders of the future are being asked to share their attitudes towards working for big oil, coal and gas clients in a new survey. Comms Declare, an association...
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...
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...
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...
Communicating the IPCC report
One of the Working Groups from the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release a report on 9 August on the heating of the planet and what it means for our future. A draft...
Hey INPEX, leave our kids alone
How’s this for a creepy media release title? INPEX partners with Questacon to future-proof Australian students The creepiness really comes into its own after a quick Google search when you realise...
Surf Life Saving risks brand damage with Ampol sponsorship
Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) proudly showed off their major sponsor Ampol in their latest online ad. The ad shows two members in a surf patrol ATV driving along a beach in morning light. In...
France to ban ads for fossil fuels
Australian creatives are being urged to reject working on fossil fuel accounts, as France follows Amsterdam and bans fossil fuel ads. France’s Climate and Resilience Bill was passed on Tuesday, and...
How to avoid greenwashing hydrogen
A quiet push is underway to label hydrogen made with coal or gas as ‘clean’ or ‘renewable’. Hydrogen can be made with renewables, with oxygen the only by-product. Or it can be made with coal or gas,...
Climate creatives demand fossil fuels be excluded from advertising awards
Comms Declare, a group of communications and creative professionals supporting climate action, has asked major Australian awards to exclude fossil fuels from competition. The petition has been...
Why fossil fuels are the new tobacco
Smoking kills thousands of Australians every year and is our leading cause of preventable deaths. Because of that, cigarette advertising and sponsorship is banned in Australia. You can’t even...
The damaging reverberations of awards for Fossil fuel ads
The Australian Marketing Institute last year awarded a campaign for Insights Driven Marketing. That campaign, by JWS Research, succeeded in improving the net favourability of mining – moving it...
Letter to Awards Organisers
RE: PETITION TO END AWARDS FOR FOSSIL FUEL ADS Your awards set the benchmark for excellence in the creative industries – the same industries that shape opinion of the biggest threat we face –...
Edelman flips on fossils
The global PR firm has a long history with fossil fuels. But in 2015 it promised to change its ways after its support of climate deniers damaged its reputation and threatened the...