A New Weather Institute report Dirty Tackle - the growing carbon footprint of football released today reveals that the carbon footprint of the global football industry is around the annual emissions of Austria or around 60% more than those of Uruguay, the nation that...
The New Weather Institute along with groups such as Scientists for Global Responsibility, Mums For Lungs, the Campaign for Better Transport, and the Badvertising and Adfree Cities campaigns have launched a new alliance to promote a manifesto for safer, fairer streets,...
Urgent action needed from the maritime sector of climate targets are going to be achieved - New Weather Report on Shipping “As an Olympian who spends much of his life on the sea, I witness first-hand the problems of ocean pollution and disruption to the climate caused...
The time is now to ask “uncomfortable questions” regarding sponsors who threaten the future of sport, says former Australian soccer captain Craig Foster Hear Team GB Paris Olympic champion, Imogen Grant, speak to the BBC Radio Today programme about the 'Dirty Money'...
Sporting Tales - our new book, just published - is about finding more imaginative ways to engage with the unprecedented challenges our times, and brings together a huge range of insight and imagination from elite athletes, academic experts, poets, artists and...
In the week of the Olympics opening ceremony, new research from the New Weather Institute reveals the most climate-polluting worldwide sponsors of the 2024 Paris Games. The Olympic Partner (TOP) programme is the highest level of Olympic sponsorship, granting...
Budget airline Easyjet claims to be ‘Working Towards Net Zero every day’, but is it? Our latest badvert of the month investigates. Airports are filing planning applications for expansion and airlines joyfully predicting massive increases in passenger numbers. At the...
Lindsay Mackie introduces New Weather’s new pamphlet, Unprepared, co-authored with David Boyle and Andrew Simms, which argues that an age of climate disasters and system vulnerability needs a dynamic, new, locally run approach to preparedness and response If there...
The region of Stockholm has adopted Sweden's, and Scandinavia's, first ban on fossil fuel advertising. From January 2026, residents of the capital and other municipalities in the most populated region of Sweden will no longer have advertisements for fossil fuels and...
For this month’s Badvert, we have something slightly different than our usual focus on airlines, cars and fossil fuel companies. As we have directed our focus towards other harmful types of advertising in recent months (see, for example, our Emerging Issues in...