Bristol City Council has published a new Advertising & Sponsorship Policy that decides what can and can’t be advertised on sites that it controls - including many billboards and bus stops across the city.

We're calling on the Council to show national leadership and end advertising for high carbon products such as:

• ads for airlines and airports

• fossil fuel company ads like BP and Shell

• ads for petrol, diesel and hybrid cars.

We know these products are worsening air pollution and accelerating dangerous climate breakdown. Making low-carbon decisions isn’t easy; and we need to stop advertisers making it harder by glamourising these harmful products.

We welcome the statement in Bristol’s One City Climate Strategy in February 2020 which resolved to:

• “[Develop] a citywide shared understanding and commitment to responsible consumption (including lower carbon food and reduced flying), which acknowledges the generally lower impact of lower income households; and
• "[Create] advertising standards and restrictions to support responsible consumption.”

The municipality of Amsterdam recently passed a similar motion on advertising in December 2020. We encourage Bristol Council to become the first UK city to do the same.

This petition follows a full letter that Adblock Bristol sent to the Mayor with additional information, sources and references. It is available here.

Further updates coming soon.