🍃The Sustainability Top 10

Hello 🖐,

I am back and ready to share with you the latest on sustainability stories!

This year promises to be one with greater sustainability focus on water. So, it is only appropriate that I plan to complete visiting the 4 greatest waterfalls in the world this year. I just came back from Niagara falls and Victoria falls is the next and last one. And guess what? Although a little intimidating, I am planning to write a book about it:

The 4 Greatest Waterfalls: Exploring the World, Exploring Ourselves

Looking forward to sharing it with you!

This week, we have a provocative piece on whether companies are accounting for their human capital properly, expanding coverage for CDP and SASB, and a big corporate betting on fusion, an engrossing article on the fraudulent operations of DC Solar and a database to help you find sustainability startups. Learn about this and more in The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

1. (Sustainable Brands) Database to discover startups to help accelerate transition to a circular economy

2. (Just Capital) Dated accounted methods? Companies don’t know how to value their workers as more than a budget cost and ESG Social reporting not always aligned with company reality

3. (GreenBiz) VCs investment in water and startups to keep an eye on

4. (GreenBiz) 40 inspiring ideas for cleaner power, less waste, and a more sustainable world

5. (Sustainable Brands) Kraft Heinz and Church & Dwight responded to shareholder proposals with new goals to cut virgin plastic use; now, investors are going after 30 other CPG brands and retailers

6. (G&A) Reporting on plastics is now part of CDP's water disclosures module at request of investors with US$130+ trillion in assets

7. (G&A) SASB going global? ISSB prepares to consult on future priorities and international applicability of the SASB Standards

8. (GreenBiz) Dude Chems, no seriously, Dude Chem, the green chemistry startup disrupting pharmaceuticals

9. (WSJ) Microsoft bets that fusion power is closer than many think

10. (Atlantic) Beware of the bad apples as green sector grows: billion-dollar green-energy ponzi scheme that hooked Warren Buffett's Geico and the U.S. Treasury

+. (The Hill) Mind-boggling revelation: yearly methane leak emissions from Turkmenistan equal to UK's CO2e emissions!

Enjoy and reflect 💭. Warm regards / saludos, Julio