On Tuesday 8th April 2025, Irish Cycling Campaign members Cllr. Donna Cooney, Colm Ryder and Miren-Maialen Samper joined Irish Doctors for the Environment to highlight the real and current dangers of climate change. 

The campaigners converged on Granby Row, just off Parnell Square, at the newly unveiled billboard which reads “we have to kill fossil fuels before they kill us”. The aim of the billboard, located prominently in the public realm, is to exert pressure on the government to implement a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship, and to regulate — as a matter of urgency — advertising that promotes fossil fuels. 

As the organisers explained, pollution from fossil fuels causes more deaths globally than smoking. Fossil fuels are driving the greatest health crisis of our time, yet the fossil fuel industry continues to enjoy unrestricted advertising and sponsorship rights. 

Photo by David Harte

For more on the ‘Fossil Fuels are a Health Hazard’ campaign, see https://ide.ie/fossil-fuels/. 

Both Irish Cycling Campaign and Irish Doctors for the Environment are member organisations of the Climate and Health Alliance which work to highlight the fact that the climate crisis is a health crisis. For more information on the Climate and Health Alliance, see https://climateandhealthalliance.wordpress.com/ 

Photo by David Harte

Article above provided by Miren-Maialen Samper.