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🍃The Sustainability Top 10

🍃The Sustainability Top 10

Opportunities to build sustainability skills, the COP27 battle, Ikea and sustainability on a budget, Lula’s win, scope 3’s time...and+

November 09, 2022

Hi 🖐,

While we await for the outcomes of a COP27 (2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference) in full swing, among this week’s stories we have a few articles on sustainability skills needs and opportunities to build them, and more bad news on what is actually happening (or not happening) with recycling... and, therefore, also a great framework for zero waste (last story). Here are The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

1. (Forbes) Sustainability on a budget: how Ikea, Beautycounter and DHL do it

2. (GreenBiz) Opportunities to build sustainability skills: 18 sustainability fellowships for students and professionals 🔧

3. (GreenBiz) Demand for sustainability knowledge and skills is intensifying in corporate roles. How are giants like Microsoft and Salesforce are addressing the skills gap

4. (CBNC) Big win for rainforests and the planet: what Lula's election in Brazil means for halting Amazon deforestation and other climate goals 🌳

5. (WRI) Vulnerable nations taking a stand: COP27’s success hinges on loss and damage finance discussions

6. (G&A) Is time to tackle Scope 3 - get ready! ISSB unanimously confirms Scope 3 GHG emissions disclosure requirements 3️⃣

7. (Bloomberg) TerraCycle Collects Plastic Waste. Does It Really Get Recycled ♻? Eyebrows were raised when packaging-trackers placed in TerraCycle collection bins ended up in landfills

8. (The Hill) Speed it up: more than 90% of large companies that committed to reaching net-zero emissions will miss goal at their current pace (but having a goal better than not having one!)

9. (G&A) A more sustainable business model doesn’t mean sustainable… Using circularity to make a more transformational shift 🔁

10. (GreenBiz) Succumbs to pressure? the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), umbrella for financial institutions behind trillions of dollars, will no longer require but instead encourage signatories to commit to the United Nations’ Race to Zero campaign which includes restricting fossil fuel financing 🛢

+. (Zero Waste) If you love Maslow's hierarchy of needs, you will like this zero waste hierarchy 🔺

Happy reading 😊. Warm regards / saludos, Julio