Creative pressure: Why the advertising and PR industry is in the sights of the fossil fuel divestment movement

Michael Holder
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Agencies facing fresh calls to cut their ties with laggard fossil fuel firms, leaving many in the advertising and PR sector with difficult decisions to make

As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more and more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of...

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