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🍃The Sustainability Top 10: Carbon + AI = Big $$$

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Julio Corredor
August 09, 2023

Welcome back 🖐,

We are back at it this week pulling the most compelling stories for sustainability professionals from a growing database of 10,000+ stories and 400+ resources! 📚

This week in sustainability, we have funding $s that keep pouring into climate tech especially when combined with AI ($400B!), resources to benchmark and improve your sustainability efforts, US federal government prioritizing sustainable purchases, tech heavy-weights coming together around AI, the newly out European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), the potential end of the alphabet soup, keeping it real with the climate facts and more…

Here are The Green Tea's Top actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

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Resources Hub

1. (NYU)(Guide) A guide from NYU's Center for Sustainable Business with practical steps to embed sustainability into your company’s business strategy including mapping ESG materiality issues; conducting stakeholder research to develop a materiality matrix; and so on. read here

2. (ESG Today)(Market Research) Benchmark yourself: ESG market research from Nasdaq with companies' insights, trends, and challenges to know about no matter where you are at in your ESG journey. read here

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3. (Reuters) Maybe we will see the end of the alphabet soup nightmare in a couple of years? Despite the EUs approval of new ESG disclosures, these and other disclosures and standards seem to be coalescing around the ISSB standards. read here

4. (ESG Today) Decision impacting purchases worth $630B: the Biden administration announced today the release of a new Sustainable Products and Services procurement rule, with requirements for federal government buyers to prioritize sustainable products and services. read here

5. (ESG Today) Nearly half of self-identified higher income earners considering switching jobs to work for a more sustainable company. read here

Startups Corner

6. (Crunchbase) More than $400 million in funding has gone into dozens of startups straddling the intersection of carbon and AI. Here are 15 such companies that have each raised $10 million or more. read here

7. (Sustainable Brands) By upcycling agricultural waste, these three startups are replacing plastic with a new wave of packaging materials that ‘make no compromises along the supply chain’. read here

8. (IR Magazine) The fox watching the hen house? Tech giants Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have joined forces with OpenAI to create an industry body for artificial intelligence to help ensure its safe and responsible development. read here

9. (Sustainable Brands) Fashion for Good, adidas, Inditex, Target, Zalando have joined forces with footwear-recycling innovator FastFeetGrinded to support the scaling of recycled content in footwear with circular footwear pilot . read here

10. (WRI) What is the global land squeeze and how can we manage it? read here

+. (WRI) Record boiling oceans and reduction in Antarctic ice, and yet this week I found a couple of articles from politicians dismissing global heat records as "summer" 🙄. Here are some helpful stats to ground the conversation 👇. read here

 Enjoy and reflect 💭. Warm regards / saludos,

Julio

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