Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Bans on fossil fuel advertising are coming - and sport should not be exempt

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par Freddie Daley, Research Associate, Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex

In a recent speech, UN secretary-general António Guterres called upon “every country to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies”. He urged the professional services and creative industries to “stop taking on new fossil fuel clients, from today, and set out plans to drop your existing ones”.

One sector that Guterres omitted from his speech was sport. This is somewhat surprising given recent trends in sponsorship and ownership…

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