🍃The Sustainability Top 10

Hi 🖐,

It was Valentine’s Day 💝 last week so naturally I made a visit to a sustainable cocoa farm in Chuao, Venezuela, to see where chocolate comes from 🕵️‍♀️ and how they make it sustainable. I will be sharing an article on the visit and on Chuao, one of the most enchanting places I have ever been to. In the meantime, this week we have case studies and examples of packaging reuse programs from Starbucks and Tesco, plant-based eggs, a list of Climate Creators to watch (and to partner with?), electric vehicle education and when they cross the threshold of just being marginally better than traditional cars, a report on how environmental risks rank among all global risks from our friends at World Economic Forum 😉, and more. Here are The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

1. (GreenBiz) Starbucks 🧜‍♂️ tests “100 percent reusables” approach at one of its stores

2. (Tesco)(Report) Tesco’s in-store reusable packaging trials with Loop ➰ concluded that “shared distribution, cleaning and refilling services could help deliver scale and cost-effectiveness more quickly than any single retailer can”

3. (Just Egg) Plant-based egg 🍳 alternatives from startups like Just Egg, Zero Egg and the Every Company are now in the market. Just Egg has been the most vocal of them.

4. (GreenBiz) List of “Climate Creators to Watch” in 2023 👀

5. (Reuters) European Parliament formally approved a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the EU from 2035

6. (GreenBiz) GM’s solution to the EV education problem

7. (NYTimes) Just how good for the planet is that big electric pickup truck? 🚙

8. (GreenBiz) Salesforce, Microsoft get creative with clean energy procurement

9. (Reuters) How to improve the quality of Scope 3️⃣ emissions data and reporting

10. (Sustainable Brands) The different levels of greenwashing and how to avoid them

+. (WEF)(Report) In the 18th edition of the Global Risks report, the four most severe long-term risks perceived are all within the ‘environmental’ category 🌎

+. (The Hill) After his climate-change scandal, World Bank chief will step down 👋

Enjoy and reflect 💭. Warm regards / saludos, Julio