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Amsterdam begins enforcing ban on adverts for meat and fossil fuels: ‘Climate crisis is very urgent’

The Independent·Stuti Mishra·29 days ago
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Amsterdam has become the first capital city in the world to ban public advertising for both meat and fossil fuel products. Adverts for burgers, petrol cars, and airlines have been removed from billboards, tram shelters, and metro stations from 1 May. The ban, approved by the city council on 22 January following a proposal by the GreenLeft and Party for the Animals parties, covers advertising for air travel, cruises, and petrol-powered cars alongside meat products. Politicians behind the move say it is about aligning Amsterdam's public spaces with its own environmental targets – carbon neutrality by 2050 and halving local meat consumption over the same period. "The climate crisis is very urgent," said Anneke Veenhoff of the GreenLeft Party.…

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