🍃The Sustainability Top 10

Welcome back 🖐,

First of all, I wanted to let you know that this is the first edition of The Green Tea on a new newsletter platform, which will provide you with some new functionality(yay!) that I will tell you more about in future posts. The email should look very similar to previous ones, but if you notice anything weird (for example, the email going to spam, etc), please let me know 🙏.

This week in sustainability, the smoke covering so much of the USA figuratively and literally overshadowed everything else (the study on exceeding planetary boundaries shared on last week’s edition of The Green Tea felt prescient…). But this week, we also have an EV partnership between Tesla and GM&Ford, a report on declining circularity, results of plastic treaty meeting, fungi as a major carbon sink, green AI chatbots, ESG on the rise in China, and the arrival of El Niño. Learn about this and more in The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

1. (GreenBiz)(Report) Going in the wrong direction: a new report reported that global circularity rates decreased from 9.1% in 2018 to to only ...% in 2023

2. (ZWE) Get ready because this will be a marathon that will have a conclusion by the end of 2024...: results of Global Plastics Treaty discussions in Paris a mixed (plastic) bag

3. (GreenBiz) Here are two chatbots focusing on sustainability, GreenGPT and Climate Q&A. After a quick try, ChatGPT might still be a better option

4. (AP) GM and Ford embracing Tesla’s EV charging technology and getting access to Tesla's 12,000 Tesla Supercharger plugs

5. (GreenBiz) Startup Qflow allows construction teams to collect real-time materials and waste data

6. (Sustainable Brands) Another company adds carbon labeling to its product to help consumers make more educated purchasing decisions

7. (The Hill) Despite "The Last of Us" maybe is a good thing to support fungi all over: the % of CO2 fungi pull from the atmosphere will shock you

8. (G&A) ESG integration and disclosure on the rise in China

9. (G&A) Over 40% of Gen Z, Millennials would switch jobs over climate concerns

10. (The Hill) El Niño is here and with it likely record breaking temperatures the next few years: NOAA declares El Niño conditions are present, expected to strengthen

+. (NatGeo) How wildfire smoke affects your body and how you can protect yourself

+. (Bloomberg) The science of weather attribution has become a big deal. "What’s concerning is this particular series of fires [in Canada] has happened very early in the year. The cumulative burn area is almost what you’d expect by the end of the fire season. Most of the fires usually happen in late July or August, early September. The reason why we’re seeing such large burn area at this time of the year is because of this heat wave — double digits in Celsius above the mean temperature for this time of the year. "

Enjoy and reflect 💭. Warm regards / saludos,

Julio