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🍃The Sustainability Top 10

🍃The Sustainability Top 10

Heading to ~2.5° Celsius, Apple decarbonizing supply chain, GM crushing green goal, 5% plastic recycling, worker’s pay revealed...and+

November 02, 2022

Hi 🖐,

With COP27 (the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference) next week, among this week’s stories we have some updates on where we stand on climate and the gaps to address. Also, some activity (and problems) on supply chains / scope 3, which has been a laggard on companies’ action. Here are The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week!

1. (The Hill) What’s the damage? The U.N. projected that we are headed to global warming between 2.1 and 2.9 degrees Celsius (versus 1.5 goal) 🥵

2. (NYTimes) Long read but illuminating on how far we have come (we might have averted worse-case climate scenarios) and how far we have to go: Beyond catastrophe: a new climate reality is coming into view

3. (WRI)(Report) Useful report on where we are coming up short on climate action: The State of Climate Action 2022 🎯

4. (ESG Today) Apple will begin tracking its suppliers’ emissions, with the aim to decarbonize its supply chain 🔗 by 2030

5. (Bloomberg) Suppliers for major brands including Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet’s Google are still relying heavily on fossil fuels 🛢

6. (Just Capital) Yes, ambitions can be raised and achieved!: GM 🚗 announces that it has secured all of the renewable energy it needs to power all of its U.S. facilities by 2025, ahead of initial 2050 projection

7. (Harvard) Helpful (though someone confusing) primer comparing the “Big Three” sustainability/ESG disclosure proposals coming up 🧾

8. (The Hill) Worse than you might have thought: only 5 percent of US plastic recycled last year

9. (Just Capital) Why transparency 🔍and reporting of workplace well-being metrics might be the future

10. (WSJ) JPMorgan, Macy’s and other companies reveal what they pay workers as deadline looms to abide by NYC law

+. (GreenBiz) Don't forget tech people: Only 49% of Chief Information Officers are part of the leadership team setting sustainability goals

+. (GreenBiz) Drop in the bucket? Shein launched Shein Exchange in the U.S., a resale platform within the company’s existing app 👗