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Have 30 years of COP changed the world or just the rhetoric?
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SOUNDING BOARD: Despite cheaper renewables and mainstream net-zero, emissions are up 65% and extreme weather cost $1.5 trillion last year. With COP30 in the Amazon, the ad industry faces mounting scrutiny over fossil-fuel work and its widening credibility gap.

If no fossil fuel company is transitioning, what exactly are agencies defending?
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Clean Creatives’ Duncan Meisel hits back at claims the F-List is “flawed,” arguing that cutting fossil fuel clients is both ethical and smart business.

Clean Creatives accuses five B Corp agencies of fossil fuel deals
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Clean Creatives names SEC Newgate, Tinkle Communications, Cullen Communications, Edit, and Total Media in a report alleging fossil-fuel ties, but three agencies contest the findings, citing transparency and past disclosures.

Working for Big Oil? Take a lesson from Vero's climate conscious creativity
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Leaders from Vero and On Purpose, the first Asia-based PR agencies to sign the Clean Creatives pledge, wish more businesses stood by the industry's moral imperative against fossil fuel influence; saying that prioritising integrity over profit is a decision worth celebrating.

Beyond greenwashing: B Corps' moral imperative to reject Big Oil
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"It's hard to run an agency. Not every client you take on is going to be a passion project, still, no agency should be taking on fossil fuel clients, especially not the B Corps, and definitely not in the hottest year of human history," writes Clean Creatives' Duncan Meisel.

Clean Creatives targets Richard Edelman at Cannes
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Clean Creatives members held placards pointing at agency boss Richard Edelman during the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity yesterday as part of a campaign to stop PR agencies working with fossil fuel corporations.

Pitching for Shell? You don’t understand value
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Belinda Noble from Comms Declare writes that accepting work from the petroleum giant makes losers of your company, your staff, and the advertising industry.

239 agencies listed as 'polluted' in Australia: report
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Climate advocacy groups Clean Creatives and Comms Declare have revealed this year's version of the F-List, a list of agencies that work alongside oil, coal, and gas companies.