23 South African Organisations Call on Ad and PR Agencies to Cut Ties With Fossil Fuels

A coalition of 23 South African organisations is urging PR and advertising agencies to cease their partnerships with the fossil fuel industry, arguing that these agencies facilitate greenwashing and obstruct climate action.

• A coalition of 23 organisations is urging South African PR and advertising agencies to refuse future contracts from fossil fuel companies, industry associations, and front groups, asserting that these entities work to "undermine climate action".
• The coalition argues that advertising and PR campaigns for oil, gas, and coal companies use tactics similar to the tobacco industry to "greenwash" these companies and obstruct meaningful change, which effectively silences frontline communities and drowns out concerned citizens.
• The document cites the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as having specifically identified the creative industry as a factor that hampers efforts to avoid a "full-blown climate catastrophe".

APA

Clean Creatives (2023). 23 South African Organisations Call on Ad and PR Agencies to Cut Ties With Fossil Fuels. https://cleancreatives.org/south-africa-ngos-open-letter

Chicago

Clean Creatives. 23 South African Organisations Call on Ad and PR Agencies to Cut Ties With Fossil Fuels. 2023. https://cleancreatives.org/south-africa-ngos-open-letter.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |author=Clean Creatives |title=23 South African Organisations Call on Ad and PR Agencies to Cut Ties With Fossil Fuels |date=21 March 2023 |url=https://cleancreatives.org/south-africa-ngos-open-letter |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{cleancreatives2023south, author = {{Clean Creatives}}, title = {{23 South African Organisations Call on Ad and PR Agencies to Cut Ties With Fossil Fuels}}, publisher = {Clean Creatives}, year = {2023}, month = mar, url = {https://cleancreatives.org/south-africa-ngos-open-letter}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }