Submitted by Chris Packham on Wednesday 30th October 2024
Published on Tuesday 12th November 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 12th May 2025
Current Signatures: 57
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced and has arguably worked. I believe continued fossil fuel usage will kill more people than smoking.
Fossil fuel advertising has a history of ‘greenwashing’ and a recent report identifies £4bn+ spent by FF companies on 205 active sports sponsorship deals. There is plenty of evidence that FF must be rapidly phased out to mitigate the worst impacts of climate breakdown. I think that preventing the companies’ efforts to enhance their social capital and normalise their activities would proactively help address the climate crisis and mitigate future harm to human health.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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