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...
The overall winner of this year’s awards was Saudi Arabia following the Kingdom’s decisive and vast push into the global sports industry through a number of investments and commercial partnerships. Other awards were handed to Shell, TotalEnergies and British Gas,...
This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
