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🍃The Sustainability Top 10

🍃The Sustainability Top 10

COP27 results, cultivated meat FDA approved, managing water usage💧, suppliers need some love, circular fiber commitment🔁...and+

November 22, 2022

Hi 🖐,

COP27 is finally over after going over time and there was agreement on loss and damage and to keep 1.5℃ target (although it is on life support). Also this week, some important startup innovations helping companies manage their water usage and the first approved cultivated meat product in the US. Here are The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

1. (NYTimes) After overtime: COP27 U.N. Climate talks end with a deal to pay poor nations for damage ☁

2. (Wired) Cultivated meat coming to a store near you? The FDA granted Upside Foods approval for selling cultivated chicken in the United States, first cultivated meat approval

3. (GreenBiz) Just 16.6 percent of companies followed by Sustainalytics disclosed information about their water withdrawals. Startup Waterplan is helping companies gain insights about watersheds and strategize 💧

4. (Reuters) Boards making progress in diversity, CEO roles not so much: the share of women and minority leaders taking on CEO roles has stagnated since last year at top U.S. companies despite corporate pledges to improve diversity

5. (GreenBiz) Why Amazon is putting $53 million toward climate funding for women 👩6. (GreenBiz) Midsize suppliers need some love? What companies in your supply chain wish you knew 🌹

7. (GreenBiz) Scope 3 disclosure is a new headache for CEOs: Here’s the painkiller

8. (G&A)(Report) Highest adoption yet: 96% of S&P500 companies and 81% of Russell1000 companies published ESG reports with SASB becoming the most used reporting standard 📈

9. (GreenBiz) Cement and concrete added: First Movers Coalition buying pledges reach $12 billion and counting.

10. (GreenBiz) H&M, Kering and more than 30 brands, printers and producers committed to purchasing 550,000 tons of circular fibers — made from waste textiles and agriculture residue — in lieu of forest fibers 👚

+. (The Hill) Corporate pledges to address plastic pollution are failing to yield sufficient reductions in the material’s use

+. (National Geographic) Getting crowded...8 billion people. Now what for Earth? 🌎

Happy reading 😊. Warm regards / saludos, Julio