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Nov 22, 2024 | 
corporateknights.com | TJ Jordan
More than 1,700 oil, gas and coal lobbyists are registered attendees of this year’s international climate summit, currently underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, to try to persuade the world that the fossil fuel industry can be part of the climate solution. The PR companies that help them sell that message are not far behind.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
desmog.com | TJ Jordan
More than 1,700 oil, gas and coal lobbyists are registered attendees of this year’s international climate summit, currently underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, to try to persuade the world that the fossil fuel industry can be part of the climate solution. The PR companies that help them sell that message are not far behind.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
desmog.com | TJ Jordan |Kathryn Clare
A secret recording. Damaging headlines. Allegations of “treason.” For Azerbaijan, host of the COP29 climate talks opening in the capital Baku on Monday, reports that a senior official had apparently used his position on the organising team to pursue oil and gas deals might seem like a public relations disaster.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
desmog.com | TJ Jordan
The world’s largest advertising and public relations firms continue to get the majority of their work from major polluters, a new report has found. Known as the “Big Six,” WPP, Omnicom, Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis, Dentsu, and Havas — operating as holding companies — dominate the ad and PR industry through their hundreds of subsidiary agencies.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
desmog.com | TJ Jordan
The UK Green Party is pressing London mayor Sadiq Khan on why he is yet to ban fossil fuel advertising on the city’s transport network — despite mounting evidence of its harmful effects — six years after he pledged to make London a “zero carbon city” by 2030. London Assembly member Caroline Russell, with the City Hall Greens, directly questioned Khan during the Mayor’s Question Time on 10 October about the advertising policies of Transport for London (TfL).
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | TJ Jordan
The UK government’s move to award £22bn in subsidies to carbon capture projects followed a sharp increase in lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, it can be revealed. Oil and gas giants such as Equinor, BP, and ExxonMobil attended 24 of 44 external ministerial meetings to discuss carbon capture and storage (CCS) in 2023, according to official transparency records.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
desmog.com | TJ Jordan
By TJ JordanLast November, a beaming group of staff from MetropolitanRepublic collected their gorilla-shaped trophy at the Silverback Awards, Uganda’s top advertising and public relations gala. The South African PR agency had won its prize for promoting the “sustainable development” of Uganda’s untapped oil reserves by French oil company TotalEnergies.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
medium.com | TJ Jordan
We all know the story of The Notebook, so I’ll spare you a revising. But something that should be brought up is Allison’s mother, Anne Hamilton (played by Joan Allen). While the character was in the novel, what wasn’t was her backstory, which was something that movie expanded on.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
resilience.org | Geoff Dembick |Ellen Ormesher |TJ Jordan
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on governments to ban fossil fuel advertising and warned creative agencies to stop working for the industry. “Many in the fossil fuel industry have shamelessly greenwashed, even as they have sought to delay climate action — with lobbying, legal threats, and massive ad campaigns,” Guterres told an event at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
desmog.com | TJ Jordan
London’s public transport network has hosted more than 240 advertising campaigns by oil and gas companies including Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil since Mayor Sadiq Khan set his “zero carbon city” goal in 2018, DeSmog can reveal. The findings come after United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a worldwide fossil fuel advertising ban, arguing that advertising companies were serving as “enablers to planetary destruction” by greenwashing polluting clients.
