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šŸƒThe Sustainability Top 10: from Amazon tightening the emission reins to CFOs having it both ways

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Julio Corredor
July 26, 2023

Welcome back šŸ–,

This week there was just so much to share that you are getting a 20oz maxi-edition of The Green Tea to sip on. We have CFOs torn between eco-love and budget cuts, Zara sweating in fast fashion's hot seat, fresh messaging from Juicy Marbles, the Federal Trade Commission updating Green Guides, Amazonā€™s new high requirements from suppliers, double-sided solar panels, ideas to help you imbed sustainability in product design, and so much moreā€¦ Here are The Green Tea's Top actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! šŸ‘‡

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1. Stat of the Week

63%

(G&A) 63% of the 500 Largest U.S. public companies are voluntarily reporting on Scope 3 emissions. read here

2. (ESG Today) Amazon will require suppliers to report their carbon emissions data to the company and to set emissions reduction goals starting next year. read here

3. (WEF) Squeezing every solar radiation: check out these double-sided solar panels! read here

Copywriting Corner

4. (Juicy Marbles) Is your sustainability copywriting making your audience yawn? See below some inspiration to spice things up from the startup Juicy Marbles, which makes vegan steaks that look like actual steaks (but how? sorcery?).

Source: Juicy Marblesā€™ website

5. (ESG Today) I hope the product offering is clearer than the press release: Deloitte, Salesforce and AT&T announced a collaboration to "help organizations collect and manage ESG data using an Internet of Things (IoT)-powered connectivity-based approach, aimed at addressing the difficulties companies are experiencing in collecting ESG data across the value chain". read here

6. (ESMC) The Federal Trade Commissionā€™s solicited comments to Green Guides used by companies. This summary of comments that came back has great examples of how to avoid greenwashing. You should consider them as they might become part of the next version of the guides and are good practices. read here

7. (ESG Today) Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde mentality: survey shows ESG as the top Investment priority for CFOs but also the area most likely to get $ cuts. read here

8. (G&A) Zara boosts sustainability goals as fast-fashion feels the heat. read here

9. (Sustainable Brands) This trend of modifying manufacturing with add-ons is appearing in multiple industries: textile manufacturing additive can expedite breakdown of synthetic fibers. read here

10. (NYTimes) A tragic example of why environmental risk management (the E on ESG) is not "woke" indoctrination: tornado rips through North Carolina Pfizer site, damaging drug supplies. read here

11. (WSJ) The rise and fall of the Chief Diversity Officer? read here

Resource of the Week

12. (SRR/GreenBiz)(Report) Ideas to help you imbed sustainability in product design: how leading-edge consumers are looking to make better decisions about consumption (these are trend setters and ~19% of US consumers). read here

Source: reportā€™s website sharereuserepair.org

13. (Just Capital) 25 U.S. Chief Sustainability Officers got together...the insights sound like a group therapy session. read here

14. (ESG Today) Big $s will be available to support small and medium enterprises transition to operating sustainably in the US and Europe. 

 

Enjoy and reflect šŸ’­. Warm regards / saludos,

Julio

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