COP21 - Brandalism do a Paris ad takeover

COP21 - Brandalism do a Paris ad takeover

Brandalism have taken over poster sites all over Paris this week, with cheeky sarcastic and surreal ads critiquing the corporate sponsors of the UN summit that takes place there this week. Much like when took over London with their anti-DSEI posters, which was timed to appear during the Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition in London. Even Amnesty joined in on that one with this cheerful ad. With the heightened security around Paris now, one wonders how they managed to get so many posters up - do the police ignore people switching posters out at bus stops? Interesting. More than 600 posters have been placed around Paris.
Brandalism explains that this is meant to "highlight the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change". The corporate sponsors of the talks have been targeted by the posters, which say that they are "part of the problem". A good example is the Volkswagen one, since they were recently caught installing software in 11 million cars that cheated emissions tests, making the vehicles appear greener than they actually were.

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