Reforming the Competition Act to Defend Climate: The Need to Regulate Deceptive Ads

The research shows that the fossil fuel industry knew about the warming effects of GHG emissions as early as the 1950s and developed a sophisticated understanding of the problem and its likely impacts by the end of the 1970s, but instead of alerting the public of the dangers of their products, the industry actively coordinated and funded denial and disinformation in order to obscure climate scienc. [...] 52 The Philippines Commission on Human Rights National Inquiry In a related matter, the Republic of the Philippines Commission on Human Rights conducted a National Inquiry on Climate Change, which began in 2015 and concluded with a report in 2022.53 The purpose of the National Inquiry was to “determine the impact of climate change on the human rights of the Filipino people and if the top fossil fu. [...] In light of the history of deceptive climate advertising and the gravity of the escalating climate emergency, it is vitally important for Canadian regulators to remove deceptive climate-related ads from the marketplace. [...] One of its primary goals is to hold "the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and [pursue] efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.” See Paris Agreement, being an Annex to the Report of the Conference of the parties on its twenty-first session, held in parties from 30 November to Reforming the Competition Ac. [...] Reforming the Competition Act to Defend Climate: The Need to Regulate Deceptive Ads Page 39 comprehensible way,131 and the consumer must be able to see or access the information at the moment they are purchasing the good or service.132 Similarly, the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive requires companies to publicly report their climate impacts, GHG emissions, GHG emissions targets, pr.