February, 2021 | Ethical Marketing News

Volkswagen brand triples deliveries of all-electric vehicles in 2020

February 28, 2021February 11, 2021 Stuart Mitchell

Volkswagen Passenger Cars has hit the ground running in the transition to electric mobility. “2020 was a turning point for Volkswagen and marked a breakthrough in electric mobility,” said Ralf Brandstätter, CEO of Volkswagen Passenger Cars. Last year, the brand delivered more electric vehicles worldwide than ever before, handing over more than 212,000 electric cars in total (+158 percent versus 2019), including nearly 134,000 battery electric vehicles (+197 percent versus 2019). “We are well on track to achieve our aim of becoming the market leader in battery electric vehicles,” Brandstätter…

ASA – Protecting children online: our online monitoring results for Q4 2020

February 28, 2021February 11, 2021 Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Protecting children online: our online monitoring results for Q4 2020. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. We’ve published the findings from the third of our monitoring sweeps, as part of a year-long project to identify and tackle age-restricted ads appearing in children’s online media. Advertisers placing age-restricted ads online are required, under the Advertising Code, to…

UK Power Networks has announced a major programme to kick start the ‘Green Recovery,’ by cutting the cost of green energy projects

February 28, 2021February 11, 2021 Stuart Mitchell

UK Power Networks has announced a major programme to kick start the ‘Green Recovery,’ by cutting the cost of green energy projects. The energy network, which keeps the lights on for more than 18 million people across London, the East and South East of England, is investing up to £80m to supercharge projects that contribute towards the UK’s commitment to reach Net Zero by 2050. The programme follows the Government’s announcement in November 2020 of a Ten Point Plan to kickstart the ‘Green Recovery’ and enable the country to reach…

Rosneft and bp agree to cooperate on carbon management and sustainability

February 28, 2021February 10, 2021 Stuart Mitchell

Rosneft Oil Company and bp have signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement focused on ‎supporting carbon management and sustainability activities of both companies. The agreement ‎builds on years of partnership between the two companies and formalises key elements of their ‎collaboration on sustainability and work to identify carbon reduction activities and low carbon ‎opportunities. Based on their longstanding partnership and taking into account the profound changes shaping the ‎global energy transition to deliver more energy with less carbon, Rosneft and bp have agreed to ‎cooperate in identifying and developing new low…