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The Hague bans advertisments for fossil fuels

September 12, 2024 by Den Haag effective by 1 January, 2025 🇳🇱
Regional regulation

The Hague bans advertisments for fossil fuels.

Fossil advertising is understood to mean: 'advertising by or for companies in the coal sector, the oil and gas sector and the aviation sector and advertising about the products and services of fossil fuels, flight holidays, airline tickets, gray electricity contracts, gas contracts, cruise trips or cars with a fossil or hybrid fuel engine.
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France bans short haul flights

May 22, 2023 by Légifrance effective by May 22, 2023 🇫🇷
National regulation

France bans flights where it can be replaced by a train ride of less than 2.5 hours.

The regular public air passenger transport services prohibited by II of Article L. 6412-3 of the Transport Code are those for which a substitutable rail link ensures, in each direction, a journey of less than two and a half hours
It should be noted that the law has several exceptions.