Polluter and 'cyber' elites - is AI just going to worsen patterns of pollution and inequality? Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning, next Weds 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. Its free with great speakers. 👇👇👇 @ResponsibleSci

Fascinating piece from ⁦@AndrewSimms_uk⁩ for ⁦@ResponsibleSci⁩ on the origins of the connection between disarmament treaties & growing calls for a ⁦@fossiltreaty⁩ treaty

📢 Badvertising has asked the UK advertising regulator, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to investigate its own ads for allegedly breaching rules around misleading advertising, which it is charged with enforcing: https://t.co/dBlT4jDxwj

‘Ad regulator asked to investigate its own ads’ To combat climate misinformation we need a regulator as strong as the ASA claims to be in its own ads, but they're badly misleading so we’ve asked them to investigate themselves @badvertising11 @adfreecities

🚨 Out today: "The Starmer Symptom" In a book documenting the precarious rise of Kier Starmer's Labour party, Badvertising's Andrew Simms outlines an alternative to the dead end of growth politics. Here's an overview of the chapter. 🧵 📖: https://t.co/35iHZCsdvn

Hear athletes say themselves why sport has to stop being a billboard for major climate polluters. The Fossil Free Declaration is a brilliant new initiative from the @cooldownnetwork 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

🚨 𝗔 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 Andrew Simms of Badvertising breaks down a major ruling by the International Court of Justice for the Ecologist. Here's why the ICJ ruling marks a turning point for climate action. 🧵 https://t.co/WbJSdq11OL

The ICJ ruled states may be liable if failing to act on non-climate compliant fossil fuel industries. It is a very small step to the same applying to sectors co-dependent on fossil fuels, like aviation, SUV makers and, even advertisers. New @the_ecologist https://t.co/U9AAh8kDn8

@mrendell does a powerful job calling out the pervasive and toxic, yet normalised sportswash by big, polluting fossil fuel sponsors in elite cycling (as in sport more generally). Important broadcasting and proper journalism where it is needed... 👇

My friend, the brilliant Matt Rendell, reveals the cynicism of fossil fuel sponsorship - aka sports/greenwash - in elite cycling. It's everywhere in sport, like tobacco sponsorship once was, but feels worse in cycling that should be pedalling forward the green transition...👇👇👇

🚨 𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧: On Mon 7 July, MPs will debate a ban on fossil fuel ads and sponsorship. This is a pivotal moment for the UK to tackle Big Oil like it did Big Tobacco. ✉️ Ask your MP to show up. It takes just 2 mins. 👉 Use our email template tool: https://t.co/fGrMvYETzX

🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: TotalEnergies to sponsor two teams in the 2025 Tour de France... and the Tour itself until 2028. The Tour is becoming increasingly dependent on Total, a company with a violent and polluting reputation that it would like to distract from. 🧵 #TDF2025

🚨Temps will near 40°C (104°F) for Benfica vs Bayern, showing how climate breakdown is already endangering players, fans & the game itself. Fossil fuel sponsors, rising emissions & extreme heat risks are all part of the bigger picture. 🧵 Full story 👉 https://t.co/KY0h1yQN8D

🚨 We're kicking off London Climate Action Week with Ad Brake. Join Badvertising’s Robbie Gillett alongside a lineup of whistleblowers, journalists & creatives exploring how to take on polluter ads. 🗓️ Mon 23 June, 6–8pm 📍 Curzon Soho 🎟️ Register now: https://t.co/CdqqFXB8bG

As fans & players swelter in dangerous heat, FIFA makes itself a billboard promoting the very polluters heating the planet, like oil giant Aramco (& the competition sponsored by car maker/major polluter Honda) as bad if not worse than tobacco sponsorship https://t.co/UefsNNbOy9

The oil company behind Rosebank - the UK’s biggest untapped oilfield - has been quietly targeting children in UK schools with a fossil fuel–friendly computer game. 🛢️🎮 This is cyber greenwashing - the new and disturbing tactic of polluting industries. 🧵 https://t.co/fdfO23ZvN1

Hot news - literally heating the planet - from our partners in South Africa about the Comrades Marathon 👇 with words from the wonderful @ultradamo.bsky.social & human running miracle Jasmin Paris... @TheGreenRunnerz @runnersworlduk @AthleticsWeekly @BBCSport @SportPosSummit

If children eat more after seeing just 5 mins of junk food ads, imagine what constant exposure to ads for SUVs, flights & high carbon lifestyles does to people's climate impacts. Time to stop promoting our own self destruction & have a tobacco-style ad ban https://t.co/5Uy8IXMJ1W

Folks - we are SO close to getting the needed 100,000 signatures by May 12th for Chris Packham's petition to ban polluter ads - please share and sign if you haven't to help it over the line... 👇 https://t.co/j25KG4YbTc

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝗱 In 'Stranded Fans' we reveal the alarming cost to fans' pockets and the planet when they cannot get home after the final whistle. Here are some of the key findings. 💡🧵 Full research: https://t.co/Pe2Q2jYhyL