🍃The Sustainability Top 10

Hi 🖐,

As we close the year in the sustainability world, COP15, the biodiversity COP (not to be confused with the climate COP27 that just ended), is in full swing with lofty and critical goals for our planet which will require business action. This week there are also some resources for pursuing energy efficiency and a sustainability support network and interesting robot innovation. This will be the last edition of The Green Tea of 2022. Thank you for reading the tea this year! I wish you a restful holiday season and coming back recharged for raising the sustainability ambition in 2023! 😉 Here are The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

1. (GreenBiz) What to expect from COP15, the “biodiversity COP” 🌳

2. (Sustainable Brands) From awareness to action: data from 7k+ companies show recognition of biodiversity risks, but struggle to turn commitments into action

3. (Bloomberg) $17T of Power: 100+ financial institutions representing called on world leaders to agree on effective measures to reverse nature loss by 2030 🎯

4. (Gita) Meet the Gitamini robot: on a mission to replace short car trips with a bot that follows you and carries your stuff 🤖5. (G&A) Need company? UN Global Compact launches Peer Learning Groups to connect sustainability leaders across industries 👋

6. (GreenBiz) Exceeding expectations: solar energy 🌞 poised for an impressive rise, with the IEA predicting it will overtake coal and gas over the next five years

7. (GreenBiz) 10-actions playbook for energy efficiency ⚡: the best way for industry to cut costs and reduce emissions from experts at ABB, Microsoft, DHL Group

8. (The Hill) Activist hedge fund trying to oust BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, concerned about “the gap between what BlackRock says on ESG and what they actually do”

9. (Just Capital) Amazon pledges to replenish the water 💧 its data centers consume by 2030

10. (GreenBiz) Buying carbon offsets? 3 primers on how to do it

Happy reading 😊. Warm regards / saludos, Julio

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