With confirmation from BP today that it will be dropping its target to cut oil and gas production, we believe it's time for cultural organisations to act... "Before this week, BP was already falling well short of internationally agreed climate targets due, in large part, to its significant investments in new oil and gas drilling. Now, BP has … Continue reading Museums must drop BP after firm ditches pledge to cut fossil fuel production and ramps up polluting investments
New disclosures obtained by Culture Unstained reveal a failure of leadership and lack of meaningful response at the Science Museum regarding their indicted sponsor Adani.
Briefings for Boris Johnson’s meetings with Gautam Adani at Science Museum reveal museum's role in Adani's lobbying - and the scale of their weapons production ambitions
Ahead of a First-tier Information Tribunal beginning today, the Cabinet Office has taken the almost unprecedented move of disclosing several briefing documents which relate to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s meetings in 2021 and 2022 with the billionaire Chairman of the Adani Group, Gautam Adani, who has now been indicted by US prosecutors. The Appeal, … Continue reading Cabinet Office to face Information Tribunal over Adani meetings with former PM including day Science Museum sponsorship announced
RBC holds over $37 billion worth of investments in companies which are complicit in war crimes. With a history steeped in colonialism and land theft, RBC is deeply invested in the genocide, illegal occupation and apartheid against the Palestinian people.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Gautam Adani, the billionaire Chair of the Adani Group, on charges of fraud and bribery relating to the ‘Adani Green Energy’ arm of the multinational conglomerate. The move has prompted calls from critics of the Science Museum’s controversial Adani sponsorship deal that it should now spell the end … Continue reading Calls for Science Museum to drop Adani after arrest warrant issued for billionaire Chairman over alleged $256m bribery plot
Advertising van denounces Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) sponsorship of Old Vic at opening night of ‘The Real Thing’ with damning video testimony from those impacted by the bank. RBC is one of world’s biggest fossil fuel financing banks and has billions of investments in companies supplying arms to Israel
A letter to the trustees of the Old Vic Theatre in London, signed by over 80 theatre professionals, names its ‘principal partner’ RBC as ‘one of the world’s biggest financiers of fossil fuel development’
Science Museum forced to drop Equinor as sponsor after it failed to meet museum’s criteria that its business must align with Paris Agreement 1.5°C target Museum accused of cynically attempting to avoid embarrassment for Norwegian oil and gas firm by burying “seismic shift” under news of UK General Election Pressure grows on museum to now … Continue reading Science Museum drops Equinor sponsorship as it fails to align with 1.5°C Paris target
Fossil Free Pride is a grassroots collective formed in 2020 with the aim of breaking the links between queer culture and the fossil fuel industry. Since then it has won victories at nearly 30 Prides across the UK, as well as at high-profile events like the British LGBT Awards.
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