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Clean Creatives highlights fossil fuel risks in Omnicom-IPG merger

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The group is urging shareholders to demand greater transparency on fossil fuel-related risks, before approving the merger.

UN chief calls for ban on fossil fuel ads to combat climate change

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UN secretary-general António Guterres has directly called for PR agencies to stop working with fossil fuel clients, and ‘acting as enablers to planetary destruction’.

Extinction Rebellion targets Edelman staff in protest fronted by ex-employee

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Extinction Rebellion protested outside Edelman’s London office yesterday, hand-delivering letters to staff and installing a ‘green-washing line’ which asked the agency to ‘cut the ties with fossil fuels’.

More than 450 scientists call on PR, creative agencies to drop fossil fuel clients

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The open letter, released through Clean Creatives and the Union of Concerned Scientists, calls for an end to campaigns that "obfuscate or downplay our data and the risk of the climate emergency." It's the latest salvo between Clean Creatives and Edelman.

11 coming signs advertising is ready for its reckoning with fossil fuels

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There is a gulf between the way agencies talk about working with fossil fuel clients and the story told by the money spent by those companies.

Petroleum company subtly disses electric vehicles

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A new campaign for Australia's Ampol, by Saatchi & Saatchi and iProspect, stresses the nation's vast distances to make a case that the company's petrol is "the fuel that gets you there".