🍃The Sustainability Top 10

Hi 🖐,

A lot of clarifying developments and enlightening stories, research this week! Here are The Green Tea's Top 10 stories* this week and upcoming events!

1. (GreenBiz) Companies believe climate action could generate $4.8 trillion in financial benefits

2. (Sustainable Brands) Limited budget? How Caesars Entertainment's 🤴 sustainability team crashed another company activity to great effect to deliver on its sustainability agenda

3. (GreenBiz) SBTi clarification: protecting forests 🌳 should play on a company’s road to net zero; "even if every company implemented a science-based target, there are no current trajectories for staying below 1.5 degrees C without protecting the world’s remaining tropical forests"

4. (NYTimes) Long but enlightening read: what does sustainable living with a high living standard look like? Maybe like Uruguay where instead of 16-20 tons of carbon/yr per person for Americans they are at 4

5. (Just Capital) (Tool) How to calculate a living wage and why businesses should use it as a benchmark to improve company success6. (Just Capital) Target joins 140 companies in the S&P 500 with a majority of board leadership composed of women and minorities 👩. The list also includes Disney, Best Buy, and General Motors.

7. (Bloomberg) Corporates need to do better: analysis of green bonds 🤑 shows that cheaper financing and an enhanced green reputation comes without any real effort from companies in majority of cases8. (GreenBiz) Eviation’s all-electric airplane ✈ made history as it completed its first test flight

9. (GreenBiz) Initiatives paving the way for industrial decarbonization: "buy-clean" construction materials, "industrial heat shot" and green steel

10. (Pitchbook) (Market Research) 2022 Sustainable Investment Survey: 500 global investors take on sustainable investing practices 💲*top business actionable, innovation, and hot topics stories

Happy reading 😊. Stay tuned for article on Costa Rica’s green startups next week, but in the meantime, here is a shot of the gorgeous crimson-fronted parakeets you see everywhere in the capital, San Jose 👇.Warm regards / saludos, Julio

Events

(GreenBiz) Oct 13 Embedding Sustainability Across the Organization Using Data

(Reuters) Oct 13 The Responsible Business Awards

(GreenBiz) Oct 17 Future of meat: How much and what types of meat should we eat, and how should it be produced? Join TABLE’s explorations of these questions in a new podcast and webinar on Oct. 17th.

(Reuters) Oct 17-20 - Forum 22: EHS & Sustainability Management Forum

(Sustainable Brands) Oct 17-20 ($) SB'22 - unlocking the power of sustainable and regenerative business

(GreenBiz) Oct 18 Circular Fashion Starts at the Beginning: An Eyewear Case Study

(IR Magazine) Oct 19 How can data and analytics help IROs prioritize ESG reporting and other disclosures?

(GreenBiz) Oct 25-27 ($) VERGE 22 is the leading climate tech event accelerating solutions

(CSE) Oct 27, 28 & 31 Canada | Certified Sustainability (ESG) Practitioner Program, Leadership Edition 2022, DIGITAL VERSION

(Reuters) Nov 1-2 Transform: Food USA

(Reuters) Nov 1-2 Transform: Supply Chains USA

(Reuters) Nov 1-2 Sustainability Reporting and Communications USA

(GRI) Nov 9, 16, 23 & 30 GRI Asia Conference - The Future is Ours: Sustainability Trajectory in Asia

(CSE) Nov 9, 10 & 11 GRI Certified Standards Training Course- Become Certified with the NEW GRI Universal Standards, 2022(Digital Version)