Abstract

Climate change, water, and air pollution create big challenges for the world community. The crucial importance of the environment is reflected in public debate and the actions of international organizations. The UN has prepared 2015 the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), emphasizing global warming problems, pollution problems, and poverty problems. Despite the growing importance, the acquisition of funding for the implementation of SDGs is an issue. It requires involving society, not only on an organizational level but also on a funding level. It seems crowdfunding builds a great opportunity to use it for projects that aim at sustainable development and environmental issues. This chapter discusses crowdfunding as a financial form for projects targeting green energy. In the first part, the bibliometric analysis was conducted covering the publications in the field of crowdfunding and sustainability. The second part presents the study directions and the most important conclusion from the literature studies. In the last part, the sustainability-oriented platforms are presented.

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