'Time for PR and ad agencies to come clean': Campaigners demand UK creative agencies cut ties with fossil fuel firms

Cecilia Keating
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UK advertising industry is facing growing pressure over its business activities
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UK advertising industry is facing growing pressure over its business activities

US Clean Creatives campaign is now training its sights on the UK, arguing industry-led Ad Net Zero initiative does not go far enough

Clean Creatives - the US-based campaign group that has ramped-up pressure on PR and advertising firms to stop working with the fossil fuel industry - has announced it is now training its sights on the...

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