South Africa, March 14 -- In the UK, the cities of Edinburgh and Sheffield have introduced such bans, with billboard ads for fossil fuel companies like Shell and BP, as well as airlines, airports, SUVs, and petrol- or diesel-powered vehicles disappearing from council-owned sites as the policies take hold.

Edinburgh's city councillors acknowledged that achieving the city's climate goals required "a shift in society's perception of success" and that "the promotion of high-carbon products is incompatible with net zero objectives". Councillors in Sheffield stated that the city's advertising ban "tackles some of the impacts of consumerism, advertising and injustice".

Further afield, the Dutch city of The Hague and the Swedish capital of Stoc...