The Guardian waiver of the advertising of oil companies: The climate is the most important challenge of our time

The british newspaper The Guardian has announced that it will waive all of the advertising of the oil and gas companies as a concrete act against the climate crisis. This is the first major international magazine to make a decision like that. Immediately the applause of the Greta Thunberg: "A good start, who will go over?", he has written the activist Swedish on Twitter.

“The Guardian will no longer accept advertising from oil and gas companies, becoming the first major global news organisation to institute an outright ban on taking money from companies that extract fossil fuels.”
A good start, who will take this further?https://t.co/csRuXWZXdG

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) January 29, 2020

The decision, said the newspaper, has immediate effect. Regarding all the companies involved in the extraction of fossil fuel energy sources, including some of the largest advertisers in the world. In motivating the turn, the newspaper in london said it would counter "the efforts made for decades by many actors in this sector to prevent governments around the world to take meaningful action on the climate". In a footnote, the acting director general, Anna Bateson, and his Revenue Manager, Hamisch Nicklin emphasize that the response to global warming is "the most important challenge of our time".