More than 20 organizations have launched a petition under the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) to call for a law banning fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship in the European Union.
To launch the initiative, more than 80 Greenpeace activists blocked the entrance to the Shell oil refinery in the port of Rotterdam this week using fossil fuel advertising banners.
“We’re here today to lift the veil on the fossil fuel industry, and confront them with their own propaganda. Our blockade is made out of the very adverts that fossil fuel companies use to clean their image, to deceive citizens and delay climate action. The pictures in those ads look nothing like the reality that we’re surrounded by, here at Shell’s refinery. With this European ...