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A group of senior advertising executives has released an anonymous memo warning that “a vacuum of responsible leadership” means the ad industry is morally failing itself and society. “We know our industry is funding hate, legitimising environmental destructive companies, and working at the frontline of a US-led rollback on diversity, equity and inclusion” (known as […]

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Nigel Farage’s donors have paid for him to take trips around the world to the tune of £151,000 since July 2024, DeSmog can reveal. Farage jetted off to the elite networking forum Davos in Switzerland last week during which he stated that the world would be a “better place” if the U.S. took control of […]

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Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the first capital in the world to prohibit such ads through local law.  The city council voted 27-17 on Thursday (January 22) to approve the measure, which from May 1 prohibits advertising for high-carbon products and services […]

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“Pollution is everybody’s business,” Imperial Oil, Exxon’s Canadian affiliate, wrote in a 1970 report, “because essentially all of it results from the activities of men working to satisfy the needs and desires of men.” Fast forward over a half century and Imperial’s old argument is taking a new form. Today, ExxonMobil is seeking to upend […]

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Separation from Canada would be a disaster for Indigenous rights in Alberta and plunge the provincial economy into even greater uncertainty. Yet providing an easier path for Alberta separatists seems strangely to be a top priority of Premier Danielle Smith, regardless of the ensuing constitutional chaos. Bill 14 was hurried through the Alberta Legislature just […]

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On Saturday, 17 January, world leaders gathered at Westminster Central Hall to mark the 80th birthday of the U.N. General Assembly. The same room where it first convened in 1946. At the same time, something quietly historic happened. For the first time, the permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly met. Selected by lottery and representative of the […]

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