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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis.

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The scientist who warned the US about climate change says it’s worse than we thought. Again.

Grist

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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Why We Should All Be Concerned About the Environment

The Environmental Blog

What is climate change and why should we be concerned about it. Climate change refers to a broad array of environmental degradation that is predicted to result from increasing levels of atmospheric CO2, including global warming , alterations in precipitation, sea level changes, and more extreme weather events.

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Creative pressure: Why the advertising and PR industry is in the sights of the fossil fuel divestment movement

Business Green

Agencies facing fresh calls to cut their ties with laggard fossil fuel firms, leaving many in the advertising and PR sector with difficult decisions to make. And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. It is a big business.

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

AGreenLiving

And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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We are on the Cusp of the Collapse of Civilization

Green Market Oracle

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. These threats are not new, in 2015 it was clear that climate change was real and demanded urgent action.

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How the net zero sceptics' medieval arguments are being overwhelmed by a very modern reality

Business Green

Upfront investments in low carbon infrastructure deliver much faster paybacks than they did a year ago, because the fossil fuels they displace are orders of magnitude more expensive. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5