🍃The Sustainability Top 10

Hi 🖐, In the sustainability world this week, AI/DNA to the rescue with supply chain tracing, shocking: Kendall Jenner and B Corp have something in common, the CEO ESG checklist, the startup engaging employees around sustainability, controversy with recycling supply chains and the booming secondhand market. Learn about this and more in The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇 I will be on the road for a few weeks, among other things exploring one of the greatest waterfalls in the world, so see you back here in May!

1. (NYTimes) How A.I. and DNA are unlocking the mysteries of global supply chains

2. (Entrepreneur Magazine) What do Kendall Jenner and B Corp have in common? 818!

3. (GreenBiz)(Guide) The CEO’s ESG Checklist: the 6 best practices every business leader should follow when implementing an effective ESG program

4. (GreenBiz) Climate Neutral Club startup is helping companies achieve sustainability goals through employee engagement

5. (GreenBiz) Startup Viridos bioengineered a microalgae oil for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) that dwarfs traditional crops performance such as corn ethanol and palm biodiesel by as much as nine times

6. (The Hill) Waste colonialism or new waste-recycling supply chains? The journey of some plastics from US cities to Mexico

7. (Bloomberg) Secondhand sales are up. Buying of used clothing, shoes and accessories, propelled the industry to $177 billion in global sales last year

8. (Ubuntoo) Startup Nohbo Drops is creating consumer good products for the personal care and hospitality industries that fully dissolve and leave no trace

9. (GreenBiz) The final draft of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework has been released for comments. It will allow companies to assess their nature-related impacts and chart a path to align with the recently agreed Global Biodiversity Framework

10. (NYTimes) Alexander Skarsgård narrates a video on Cambridge professor Sir Partha Dasgupta’s seminal report about including the cost of nature in mainstream economics and business, which can be summarized as “pay for what we use”

Enjoy and reflect 💭. Warm regards / saludos, Julio