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UN calls on tech and media to stop taking fossil fuel ad money — but gets nothing in response
“Stop acting as enablers to planetary destruction.”
Guterres called out tech, media, and PR companies for accepting ad money from the fossil fuel industry even though a safe climate depends on replacing coal, oil, and gas with cleaner energy. To meet the most ambitious goal set out in the Paris climate agreement of preventing more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels need to drop steeply each year before reaching net zero around 2050. For years, environmental advocates and investigative reporters have worked to expose the relationships fossil fuel companies have forged with tech and media brands that otherwise say they want to take action on climate change.
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