'Toxic for your brand': UN Secretary General calls for fossil fuel advertising ban

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'Toxic for your brand': UN Secretary General calls for fossil fuel advertising ban

UN chief uses Environment Day address to calls on media firms and financial institutions to sever ties with polluters

The UN Secretary-General has made his most impassioned plea yet for private sector actors to sever ties with fossil fuel companies, as he called on advertising agencies to stop working with coal, oil,...

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