Report: Car and airline adverts helped produce twice the emissions of Spain in 2019

Cecilia Keating
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Campaigners have been calling for a ban on high-carbon advertising | Credit: iStock
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Campaigners have been calling for a ban on high-carbon advertising | Credit: iStock

Researchers map emissions impact of high-carbon advertising, as Innocent is rapped by advertising regulator for ad that exaggerates environmental benefits of purchasing smoothies

Adverts for cars and flights helped drive emissions equivalent to more than double the national greenhouse gas output of Spain, fresh research from Greenpeace Nordic and the New Weather Institute has claimed....

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