Join our Stockholm+50 event live from Sweden - 1st June 2022

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Fossil fuel ads and sponsorships - why we need to end them and how to do it
Wednesday 1st June 2022
1pm (British Summer Time) // 2pm (CEST)

Tune into the Stockholm event via Zoom:": https://greenpeace.zoom.us/j/94847348697

Why, in a warming world, are we surrounded by ads for polluting products and lifestyles that make the problem worse?

This seminar - hosted by the Badvertising campaign, New Weather Institute, Rapid Transition Alliance and Greenpeace Sweden - introduces the new international campaigns seeking to do what public health campaigns against tobacco did for cigarette advertising, but this time for high-carbon adverts. It will look at what fossil ads are, and why fossil fuel ads and sponsorships need to be stopped.

We will hear about the European Citizens Initiative (ECI) that proposes a European ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorships, as well as cities pioneering moves from cities such as Amsterdam and the Hague who are introducing fossil ad bans locally. And research on how fossil advertising influences our minds. There will also be time to workshop and make your own plans on how to end fossil fuels ads in your city.

Tune into the Stockholm event via Zoom:": https://greenpeace.zoom.us/j/94847348697

Speakers include: 

  • Andrew Simms, co-director New Weather Institute UK, Rapid Transition Alliance, and the Badvertising campaign

  • Cecilia Solér, senior lecturer at the Department of Business Administration, at the University of Gothenburg 

  • Femke Sleegers, co-founder of Reclame Fossielvrij in The Netherlands

  • Gunnar Lind, co-founder of New Weather Sweden 

  • Gustav Martner, head of Creative, Greenpeace in Sweden

Organisers: New Weather Institute and the Badvertising campaign together with Greenpeace Sweden 

Robbie Gillett