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Unfriend: Why is Facebook restricting climate-related ad campaigns from green businesses?

Business Green

While the advert will no doubt seem enticing to BusinessGreen readers, the final wording of the post came as a disappointment to the digital marketing specialist behind the campaign, who had hoped to entice young people to the event with the more punchy appeal to "discover your role in the fight against climate change".

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5 Lessons from China, India, Vietnam on Decarbonizing Transport and Accelerating Climate Action

The City Fix

Political landscapes, regulations, industry interests, market set-ups, financial resources and social considerations all. The momentum towards low-carbon and sustainable transport is growing globally, but the sector still lags behind many others and each country faces a unique path to travel.

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July Cleantech Roundup: Cheap Solar, Scooter Funding, fuel from manure, and More!

Clean Energy Trust

Link Scooter companies continue to receive large investments , with European companies Wind and Dott both raising at least $30 million in Series A rounds. If you were wondering, scooters are not going away. Both companies point to their scooter hardware as a competitive advantage. I’m skeptical on that front?—?while Link (Wind).

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Boris Johnson promises to 'build back greener', but can he deliver?

Business Green

A veneer of normality returned to politics, as the Prime Minister hauled himself back onto the campaign trail, found a high-vis jacket adorned clean tech factory backdrop in a Midlands marginal to stand in front of, and aspired to deliver some of his favourite old tunes while experimenting with some new material. Because they are. "We

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December 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Year in Review

Clean Energy Trust

Credit: UN Climate Change / Kiara Worth Middling government action There were several substantial climate policy bills at the state level, including Washington State’s carbon price and the climate legislation passed in Illinois.

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Free school meals, immigration… net zero? How English football could score on climate

Business Green

When football stars take on the authorities, they tend to win - could the climate-threatened sector adopt sustainabilty as its next cause? Anyone who tuned into the pundit-less broadcast of Match of the Day on 11 March will have had a first-hand experience of elite football world's growing embrace of political protest.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Among other challenges, Lyft’s scooter rentals mostly have flopped, but the company isn’t giving up on micromobility. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. billion.