Low carbon advertising and sponsorship: launch event

The FPH Sustainable Development SIG are organising a launch event for a new policy brief on low-carbon advertising and sponsorship policies, aimed at public health professionals working in local authorities. This is part of broader FPH activities around fossil fuels and the Commercial Determinants of Health, following the FPH position paper on fossil fuels released earlier this year. 

The event aims to discuss practical considerations and challenges in implementing low-carbon advertising policies at a local authority level. It will include a presentation of the policy brief and discussion of the role of local authorities in addressing commercial determinants of health as they relate to fossil fuels, and how low-carbon advertising and sponsorship policies can help to protect human and planetary health.

This will be followed by a panel discussion and a Q&A session for audience questions about the evidence base and implementation of these kinds of policies. The panel will include speakers from Sheffield and Edinburgh LAs, which have now successfully implemented low-carbon advertising policies, and Badvertising, which campaigns to stop adverts and sponsorships from fuelling the climate emergency.