🍃The Sustainability Top 10

Hi 🖐,

We are now up to 16(!) upcoming sustainability events for the next four weeks. And The Green Tea's Top 10 stories this week are:

1. (G&A) How did Alphabet spend the $5.7 Billion from largest-ever corporate sustainability bond? 🔠

2. (The Hill) The ROI on IRA: Inflation Reduction Act could avert $1.9T in climate damage

3. (NYTimes) "My job is to police energy use in my office. Here’s how we got to Net Zero" 👮‍♂️

4. (GreenBiz)(Report) State of the sustainability profession - 2022 report 👩‍💼

5. (NYTimes) The move to electric vehicles (EVs), should be accompanied by a move to less vehicles 🚗. This article talks about the potential environmental impact of deep-sea mining for EV metals. We will likely see significant impact on land too

6. (SCMP) Alibaba’s low-carbon living Taobao app features: users can how effective they are managing their footprint loading pictures (note: I could not test it because it is in Chinese 😐)

7. (Sustainable Brands) What's the tea with Tazo’s tea: their sustainability ambitions and "regenerative roadmap" 🍵

8. (FT) ESG European directive that could start to be applied in June is spooking Wall Street given its global scope 

9. (Just Capital) On the 3rd anniversary of the Business Roundtable’s redefined corporate purpose, are corporations 🏢 living up to Americans expectations? 

10. (GreenBiz)(Report) Vendor Selection Checklist: 7 features to look for in an ESG solution ✅

+(HBO) In case you have not seen it: John Oliver getting on the sustainability action and carbon offsets

Happy reading 😊. Warm regards / saludos, Julio

A dumbo octopus, one of the species that would be affected by deep-sea mining for EV metals (source: NYTimes)

Events:

(NCX) Aug 31 Enabling Forest Carbon Accounting at Scale with Basemap

(TBLI) Aug 31 Tracking and Verifying 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Purchases

(TBLI) Sep 1 ($) Shell:Greenwashing their way to disaster

(GreenBiz) Sep 6 Navigating Net Zero Transition Plans

(UNGC) Sep 8 Information session for the SDG Ambition Accelerator

(Reuters) Sep 8 Webinar: Sustainability Supplier Collaboration Webinar with General Motors, Google and Salesforce

(WRI) Sep 9 How Investing in Partnerships Can Accelerate the SDGs

(Ceres) Sep 12 - Dec 12 UC Berkeley and Ceres offering an ESG certification designed for current and aspiring corporate directors

(UNGC) Sep 13 Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) 101 Webinar

(ISSP) Sep 14 Webinar: Bringing Circularity to the Built Environment and Real Estate

(GreenBiz) Sep 14 The State of Climate Tech Funding

(Climate Group) Sep 19-25 Climate Week Events

(Nest Summit) Sep 20-21 Nest Summit NYC - taking climate action

(CSE) Sep 22 ($) Certified Sustainability (ESG)Practitioner Program, Advanced Edition 2022

(Fast Company) Sep 23 ($) Apply for Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies | Sustainability Categories

(TBLI) Sep 29 ($) The Clean Energy Transition: How Capital Markets React and why Fossil Fuels are Doomed