🍃The Sustainability Top 10

Hi 🖐,

Your weekly dose of sustainability’s Top 10 is back 😉. We start the year with a recap on what happened at COP15 and what is expected of businesses. Also, some positive developments on forever chemicals, which we are all likely exposed to… And research on carbon labeling, percentage of women on boards and engaging consumers to reduce food waste, among others. Without further ado, here are The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

1. (CBD) In case you missed it in December: the new Global Biodiversity Framework 🌳 adopted by world leaders at COP15 in Montreal includes requiring "large and transnational companies and financial institutions to monitor, assess, and transparently disclose their risks, dependencies and impacts on biodiversity through their operations, supply and value chains and portfolios"

2. (Sustainable Brands) Two new funds show some companies, investors putting money where their mouths are on biodiversity commitments 💲

3. (GreenBiz) Better late than forever...3M pledges to stop making 'forever chemicals' by 2025

4. (GreenBiz) Scary to look at this database and compare to product labels 😳...Pharos Project has compiled a chemicals database that outlines known chemical toxicity endpoints for over 146,000 chemicals

5. (Bloomberg) Should these labels be on everything 🤔? New research suggests that climate labels on fast food menus could encourage consumers to make more sustainable choices

6. (GreenBiz) Some practical tips on Scope 3: What you really need to know about Scope 3 emissions and your business

7. (Just Capital) Women 👩, for the first time, held 32% of board seats in the S&P 500 as of November 2022

8. (The Guardian) Want to get an order of fries without the waste 🍟? You can in France thanks to a new ban on single-use tableware as of Jan. 1 for restaurants with more than 20 seats

9. (NYTimes) Can a public awareness campaign on food waste actually enable behavior change? In a Central Ohio suburb, an encouraging program emphasizing the cost to the consumer led to an estimated 20 percent reduction in food waste 🍝. “The way to really get people’s attention in the Midwest and Ohio is through pocketbook issues”

10. (The Hill) Green-energy Star Trek innovation 🛰: UK university received $2.6 million to study perovskite, a possible future candidate for building orbital solar farms capable of beaming energy back to Earth

Happy reading 😊. Warm regards / saludos, Julio