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The Australian Greens have announced in April 2025 a commitment to ending fossil fuel marketing.
The Powering Past Coal and Gas plan includes:
* Extending the current tobacco advertising and sponsorship ban to cover fossil fuel companies
* A $275m fund to help clean energy companies replace fossil fuels companies as sponsors
* Requiring emissions disclosure labels on car, plane and petrol station advertisements.
This means our sporting groups, schools and cultural institutions will no longer have to be walking billboards for the fossil fuel industry!
It also recognises that marketing is a important driver of consumption and can be used to help boost the use of cheaper, cleaner energy.
The relevant section of the policy is called 'Get fossil fuel funding out of our communities' and states;
"Just like tobacco companies did decades ago, fossil fuel companies are buying goodwill by putting their name on sports, arts, and events in Australia. Woodside sponsors kids life-saving in WA as well as sponsoring the Fremantle Dockers while Santos sponsors the national Wallabies team and the Tour Down Under. These companies have no domestic customers - the only reason they advertise is to win public support and extend the social license for their destructive products. Tobacco advertising was prohibited through strong legislation and hard work, demonstrating the dangers of smoking. It is time for fossil fuel companies to follow. Air pollution from burning fossil fuels is estimated to claim over 11,000 Australian lives every year. The fossil fuel industry shouldn’t get away with buying social capital and owning our politicians."
