🚨BREAKING! 🚨 🌍 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...

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗜𝗧𝗩 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 The French fossil fuel giant has a huge presence at this year's race. But behind the logos that adorn jerseys and banners is a community fighting to survive on the climate frontlines. Full report: www.itv.com/watch/tour-d...

🚨 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: Now ad agencies worth over £900 million(!) are calling for a fossil fuel ad ban. Next Monday's Parliamentary debate marks a historic moment for the campaign. 📧 Ask your MP to attend with our template (it takes just 2 mins!): actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

🚨 𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧: On Mon 7 July, MPs will debate a ban on fossil fuel ads and sponsorship. This is a pivotal moment for the UK to tackle Big Oil like it did Big Tobacco. ✉️ Ask your MP to show up. It takes just 2 mins. 👉 Use our email template tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

🚨Chris Packham's petition calling for a ban on fossil fuel ads is close to 100,000 signatures! ✍️ Sign to enter a prize draw for satirical BP art courtesy from @darrencullen.bsky.social or a copy of the ‘Badvertising’ book! Full info 👉 www.badverts.org/latest/chris... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

📣NEW RESEARCH SUMMARY “What the public think about advertising high-carbon products and services: Citizens’ jury and public polling evidence from the UK.” climatecitizens.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🚨 This weekend, the Tour du Rwanda ended controversially and abruptly as thunderstorms closed in. In a new piece for Cool Down, cycling journalist and climate campaigner, Matt Rendell, reveals how oil, gas, and geopolitics hijacked the race. 🧵 Full article.👇

📢 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: 50+ professional skiers call for an end to fossil fuel advertising in winter sports. Here's what the athletes had to say in their letter to Vasaloppet, the world's largest cross-country ski race. 🧵 Read the published letter in full on Cool Down. 👇

🚨❄️ 𝗦𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝘀: The majority of Swedes want to see an end to fossil fuelled advertising in winter sports. Here’s why this matters – and how fossil fuel sponsors are melting the future of snow sports. 🧵 Full report 👉 shorturl.at/jwjYb

New article out open-access: 'State and culture in sustainability transformations: structural power, democracy, and the promise of a Marcusian cultural politics of critical meaning-making' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

BREAKING! 🚨 📢 In a first-of-its-kind action, we're challenging the world's largest ad firm, WPP, over their work promoting huge polluters. 👉 head to badverts.org/wpp to learn more!

🚨 NEW RESEARCH: 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲 Football finds itself offside in the climate crisis. ⚽️ 🟥 In the first-ever industry-wide global assessment, climate scientist Dr. Stuart Parkinson uncovers the sport’s massive pollution problem. Full report: www.newweather.org/wp-content/u...

Africa Cup of Nations just put up a new ad proudly promoting their sponsor - fossil fuel giant, TotalEnergies. Here's a version where the sportswashing is a bit clearer for fans. Watch until the end. x #KickTotalOutOfAfrica #TotalEnergiesAFCON2025 @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social

Massive, polluting, and dangerous SUVs are becoming the norm in the UK. There's a better way. Today, we launch the SUV Alliance with a 5-point manifesto for safer and fairer streets without SUVs Manifesto 👉 suv-alliance.org.uk

As new fires rage in LA, Olympics presidential candidate warns the city set to host the 2028 Games to be "better prepared". 🤥 Translation: "Don't look into the polluters that fund us, just get better at dealing with the apocalyptic scenes they cause."

Yesterday, world No. 1 Jannik Sinner teetered on the brink due to extreme heat at the Australian Open. Yet, the tournament continues to promote the industries that profit from business-as-usual warming. Climate leadership means dropping polluting sponsors, not just providing 10-minute heat breaks.

🚨 Sportswashing Alert! 🚨 The Spanish Super Cup is underway. 🇪🇸⚽️ But how did a tournament for Spain's top football clubs end up being hosted nearly 3000 miles away in Saudi Arabia? Make yourself comfortable - here's a tale of Saudi sportswashing. 📖🧵

When I tell people that I research climate assemblies, I am often met with a puzzled look. I proceed to wax lyrical about the radical and transformative change that can result from ordinary people coming together to talk. But instead of clarity, their confusion usually deepens. 🧵 1/4

"The idea that politics is a game that revolves around ‚winning/losing’ is a privatization and economization of the political. 
And the ancient world had a name for people who tried to turn the polis into their private oikos: It called them ‚tyrants‘.
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🏆 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: 2024 Bad Sport Awards Winners. Sport should inspire us, but polluting industries have turned the field into their PR playground. 💰💨 The votes are in, and the results are shocking. Ready to see who made the cut? 🧵👇

On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia were announced as the 2034 World Cup host following a corrupt bidding process. 💰💨 Thankfully, a growing number of athletes are calling out polluters using sport as a promotional platform. Here's Wycombe Wanderers player @djwheeler7.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk. 👏

🚨FIFA have officially confirmed Saudi Arabia as the 2034 World Cup host. This follows a blatantly corrupt bidding process that ensured there was no competition for the petrostate. Here’s what you need to know. 🧵

My article on how FIFA's competitions are being bankrolled by big oil money and how female footballers are fighting back. Male players, fans, and gov bodies in football must join their call to end fossil fuel sponsorship in football! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🚨 Ever wondered how polluters are able to wash away the stubborn stains left by their business operations? In collaboration with Politically Aweh, we rate the sportswashing soaps of South Africa. 🧼🫧 Here's the dirt (and detergents). 🧵 Full show 👉 youtu.be/V8ZJEjyQP-8

The incredible Chris Packham has stepped up, urging a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship. 🌍🔥 ✍️ Add your voice and sign the petition—help us push this issue into Parliament! 👉 lovera.ge/ban-ffa

At the COP29 climate summit, Keir Starmer said he wasn't going to tell people how to live their lives. That's not what people want to hear. I've written about what he could have said instead. climatecitizens.org.uk/climate-citi...

Great list for fellow deliberative democracy dorks ✅

Short rant. 🧵1/2 Instead of applauding speeches from climate-vulnerable nations that condemn inadequate agreements, COP delegates should silently bow their heads in shame. Yes, $1.3 trillion has been “agreed” at COP29, but $1 trillion of this is expected to come from the private sector.

1. The Global Super League kicks off tomorrow in Guyana, bringing together top cricket teams. But beneath the excitement lies a troubling story about climate devastation, oil expansion, and sportswashing. 🧵 Read Game Changer's full piece on Cool Down. 👇

Deliberative democracy folk - this is the list 👇