🍃The Sustainability Top 10: Greener $s

Welcome back 🖐,

This week in sustainability, we have clean tech startups getting huge investment rounds, a steady flow of the latest numbers measuring the impact of climate change, EU deforestation law affecting business behavior, a resource to help you figure out your circularity progress and more. Here are The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

2. (FastCompany) This is taking so long…why you won't be eating lab meat any time soon, but we now know what it will be officially called: cell-cultivated meat

(UPDATE just off the press: 1. (SM) First ‘lab-grown’ meats (and their potential for lower emissions) approved for sale by regulators in the US. The meat will first be served in exclusive restaurants, with Upside partnering with a San Francisco restaurant called Bar Crenn and Good Meet working with a Washington, D.C., restaurant run by chef José Andrés read here)

3. (Crunchbase) Clean air startups scaling up to address a growing issue: air quality

5. (Reuters) As a new European Union zero-tolerance deforestation law looms, several major investors are concerned about their exposure and some might quit investment in consumer goods makers with "risky" supply chains

6. (Reuters) Tortoise steps? Gender inequality has remained stagnant for a decade, according to research by the United Nations, and leave the world unlikely to meet the UN's goal of gender parity by 2030

7. (Bloomberg) After years of unfettered growth (and inconsistency…), the ESG ratings providers will soon have to adjust their businesses to comply with new regulations

9. (ESMC) Let's get real: more companies setting ‘net-zero’ climate targets, but less than 5% have credible plans

10. (WRI) Data confirms it: forest fires are getting worse, but how much worse? ~2x as much as 20 years ago

+. (Guardian) ‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high

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Enjoy and reflect 💭. Warm regards / saludos,

Julio