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Medway Council (covering Rochester and Gillingham in Kent, south east England) has banned fossil fuel advertising on council-controlled advertising sites in April 2025.
"Medway Council will not enter into any agreements with any organisations and individuals if, in the reasonable opinion of the Council, the goods or services being promoted conflict with the Council’s carbon reduction targets for Medway and Climate Change Action Plan, for example the promotion of fossil fuels."
(See page 7 of Medway Council’s Advertising & Sponsorship Policy)
Medway Council join a gowing number of local authorities who have banned advertising by fossil fuel companies and other other high carbon products in the UK including Edinburgh, Sheffield, Cambridgeshire, Hackney, Coventry and Basingstoke & Deane.
