🌍 The Fossil Free Declaration is a new global initiative inviting athletes & sports organisations to sever ties with the industries driving climate breakdown.
Get involved by inviting your favourite athlete or team to join. ✍️
More 👉 cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-f...
🅱️ is for ‘Badvertising’, persuading people to buy stuff which is against their own interests.
👉 find out more at
www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
🅱️ is for ‘Badvertising’, persuading people to buy stuff which is against their own interests.
👉 find out more at
www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
And this year’s winners have been making some truly spectacular contributions to the world of sportswashing.
Here are the winners… 🧵
And this year’s winners have been making some truly spectacular contributions to the world of sportswashing.
Here are the winners… 🧵
Neira has been a consistent supported of such a ban, even describing fossil fuels as the "new tobacco". 🛢️🚬
Neira has been a consistent supported of such a ban, even describing fossil fuels as the "new tobacco". 🛢️🚬
We’ve identified 41 races with high-carbon sponsors. 24 gas & oil, 14 airline & three car manufacturers. No doubt we’ve missed many more.
@badvertising.bsky.social
We’ve identified 41 races with high-carbon sponsors. 24 gas & oil, 14 airline & three car manufacturers. No doubt we’ve missed many more.
@badvertising.bsky.social
Reducing emissions while fuelling demand for cheap flights isn’t the answer.
@badvertising.bsky.social
Reducing emissions while fuelling demand for cheap flights isn’t the answer.
@badvertising.bsky.social
Together with @badvertising.bsky.social & @flightfreeuk.bsky.social, we call on the races to drop the airline at the earliest opportunity.
Big polluters have no place in our sport. They’re taking the Whizz 🤬
✍️ Sign our petition.
🛑 Stop #sportswashing
Together with @badvertising.bsky.social & @flightfreeuk.bsky.social, we call on the races to drop the airline at the earliest opportunity.
Big polluters have no place in our sport. They’re taking the Whizz 🤬
✍️ Sign our petition.
🛑 Stop #sportswashing
Then twenty Premier League clubs started this season without a front shirt betting sponsor
Football did not collapse. So why do many view high-carbon industries so differently? 🧵
Then twenty Premier League clubs started this season without a front shirt betting sponsor
Football did not collapse. So why do many view high-carbon industries so differently? 🧵
Momentum is building across the UK for a fossil fuel ad ban. 🚀
Here’s the story so far. 🧵
Momentum is building across the UK for a fossil fuel ad ban. 🚀
Here’s the story so far. 🧵
Here’s how we can change the game.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Here’s how we can change the game.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
And riders are rightly questioning this new normal.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
And riders are rightly questioning this new normal.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
It is not more important than ever that we not only ramp up renewables, but also reduce demand for fossil fuels.
This is where a fossil ad ban must come in. 🧵 1/6
It is not more important than ever that we not only ramp up renewables, but also reduce demand for fossil fuels.
This is where a fossil ad ban must come in. 🧵 1/6
It's the only story I've seen about the morally dubious sponsorship of the @eisteddfod.cymru Science Village by Valero, one of the world's largest oil refining companies.
barn.cymru/en_gb/yr-eis...
It's the only story I've seen about the morally dubious sponsorship of the @eisteddfod.cymru Science Village by Valero, one of the world's largest oil refining companies.
barn.cymru/en_gb/yr-eis...
While elite football promotes harmful industries, players at other levels are left to suffer.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/752...
While elite football promotes harmful industries, players at other levels are left to suffer.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/752...
But Fifa has a deeper issue than Infantino - it has been selling the game to the highest bidder for decades. 🧵 1/6
But Fifa has a deeper issue than Infantino - it has been selling the game to the highest bidder for decades. 🧵 1/6
As climate chaos impacts cycling’s biggest events, polluting sponsors remain in the lead. 🚴♂️
www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/vuelt...
As climate chaos impacts cycling’s biggest events, polluting sponsors remain in the lead. 🚴♂️
www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/vuelt...
Meanwhile PSG’s owners are still one of the world’s most prolific fossil fuel producers. 🛢️
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Meanwhile PSG’s owners are still one of the world’s most prolific fossil fuel producers. 🛢️
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Under Gianni Infantino, football's crowning tournament has become a political vehicle and advertising platform for polluters and the power hungry.
⏪ Let's revisit some of his lowlights. 🧵 1/5
Sign: change.org/infantino-out-now
Under Gianni Infantino, football's crowning tournament has become a political vehicle and advertising platform for polluters and the power hungry.
⏪ Let's revisit some of his lowlights. 🧵 1/5
Sign: change.org/infantino-out-now
And moving a player between clubs can shed light on the wider issues the game has with carbon emissions. ⚽️
www.football365.com/news/hidden-...
And moving a player between clubs can shed light on the wider issues the game has with carbon emissions. ⚽️
www.football365.com/news/hidden-...
theconversation.com/who-does-spo...
theconversation.com/who-does-spo...
Spoiler: it's about as green as a satsuma. 🍊
📖 Full piece: www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-uci...
Join the Fossil Free Declaration 👉 www.cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-f...
Spoiler: it's about as green as a satsuma. 🍊
📖 Full piece: www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-uci...
Join the Fossil Free Declaration 👉 www.cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-f...
Sports pitches have hardened while athletes are struggling to perform in the heat.
Yet, decision makers continue to bury their heads in the arid sand by partnering with polluting sponsors. 📺💨
An explainer on sportswashing. 🧵 1/2
Sports pitches have hardened while athletes are struggling to perform in the heat.
Yet, decision makers continue to bury their heads in the arid sand by partnering with polluting sponsors. 📺💨
An explainer on sportswashing. 🧵 1/2
There's no beautiful game without the grassroots.
While elite teams and Fifa promote fossil fuel interests, the climate crisis is having significant consequences for grassroots football.
Here's the state of play. 🧵 1/7
There's no beautiful game without the grassroots.
As war pushed oil prices up and fossil-fuelled heatwaves, fires and drought devastated communities, oil giants cashed in. 🫰
And they’re still allowed to advertise like they’re part of the solution. 🧵 1/7
As war pushed oil prices up and fossil-fuelled heatwaves, fires and drought devastated communities, oil giants cashed in. 🫰
And they’re still allowed to advertise like they’re part of the solution. 🧵 1/7
And now, FIFA president Infantino aims to rush through an expansion of the 2030 World Cup to a whopping 64 teams.
This is a short-sighted, money-making, climate-wrecking plan. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
And now, FIFA president Infantino aims to rush through an expansion of the 2030 World Cup to a whopping 64 teams.
This is a short-sighted, money-making, climate-wrecking plan. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Now more than ever, FIFA must drop their polluting sponsors and start protecting the future of football.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Now more than ever, FIFA must drop their polluting sponsors and start protecting the future of football.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...