We had an amazing carbon calculator launch last week, with multiple industry press articles. Here’s a round-up of the announcements: Campaign: AdGreen’s carbon calculator goes live with 130 users signed up Campaign: Brands pledge to put purpose before profit during Campaign event The Drum: Unilever, Adam&Eve and Havas commit to measuring carbon footprint of ads with […]
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CAMPAIGN | INSIDE ADLAND’S RAPID EFFORTS TO BE SUSTAINABLE
While the UK prepares to host a UN summit on climate change (COP26) in November, agencies and brands are accelerating efforts to reduce their carbon footprint as the climate crisis becomes business-critical. Campaign’s Jennifer Small charts the industry’s efforts so far and looks at what’s coming next. You can read the full article here on […]
CAMPAIGN | CAN ADVERTISING FIND ITS PLACE IN THE REGENERATIVE AGE?
Brittaney Kiefer writes the long read in this week’s Campaign, with a round up of current thoughts in our industry, and what comes after Create and Strike. [excerpt]… “Taking the path that [Iain] Tait and others describe would give advertising a bigger purpose than just selling more stuff. The industry has already begun to […]
CAMPAIGN | STRIKING ISN’T ENOUGH TO FIGHT THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
AdGreen advocate Rachel Smy, Group Environmental Manager at Ogilvy had Campaign publish her thoughts on the latest round of events and action in adland – and asks what happens after the strikes… “What if I told you a huge opportunity for real (and fast) progress was in front of our noses? And has been […]
CAMPAIGN | SHOULD MARKETING SPEND BE CARBON NEUTRAL?
An interesting article on the back of Ovo’s announcement a couple of days previously, thank you to Ruth Wright (Editor-in-chief, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO; Extinction Rebellion) for mentioning us! “We are way past the point of being able to use carbon offsetting as a “get out of jail free” card. We are in the midst […]
CAMPAIGN | HEADING OFF EXTINCTION: A VIEW FROM PAUL BAINSFAIR
The IPA’s chairman, Paul Bainsfair, wrote up his thoughts on what needs to happen next after the 44 Club’s XR event last week. The group were invited to present to the industry in response to their letter and recent activism in Cannes… “We also heard from Jo Coombes, founder of AdGreen, who has been […]
CAMPAIGN | WHY WE’RE LOVING
The ‘Why We’re Loving’ feature focuses on AdGreen this week – read the full article here. Also in the print edition 18th November 2016. Why did you set up AdGreen? After working on a few particularly wasteful shoots, I felt I had two choices: leave the industry, or do something about it. I chose the latter. Since […]