🍃The Sustainability Top 10: sustainability resources you did not know you needed (but you probably do)

Welcome back 🖐,

Feeling like you are drowning in your role given increasingly complex and evolving sustainability expectations?  Not to worry, this weekly edition of The Green Tea is full of resources for emerging topics, and Barbie, of course, is making an appearance 😅.

We have sustainability reporting tips from a GRI practitioner, a Chief Sustainability Officer Barbie (yes, you read that right), how to stir clear from legal trouble on diversity efforts, benchmarking your company’s biodiversity efforts, upskilling your board, a geo-thermal breakthrough and what Google has to do with it, a scary tipping point we could breach sooner than we thought and more…

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

1. (GRI) Struggling with your sustainability reporting journey? Here are some lessons-learned from somebody managing the process at GRI. read here

2. (Mattel) Having sustainability issues? There is a Barbie for that - meet Chief Sustainability Officer Barbie! While it is great to have a CSO Barbie to inspire children about this career option, Mattel's relationship with plastic and excess consumerism is not fantastic.

3. (FBF)(Report) Study analyzed 40,000 biodiversity initiatives disclosed in 6,000 sustainability reports to understand how companies are tackling biodiversity challenges. read here

5. (ESG Today) Is your board illiterate on climate skills? (you are not alone, most are…): this new tool can boost board-level climate skills. read here

6. (ESG Today) Global automakers to build EV charging network across U.S. and Canada. read here

7. (WEF) Ultra-thin strips could democratize use of solar energy as you could put them anywhere! Boats, drones, phones, disaster-relief operations, you name it. And they may even replace some traditional (and cumbersome) solar panels. read here

9. (GreenBiz) Amazon and SAP have recently announced plans asking suppliers to report on emissions and have reduction goals. But what help can companies provide to supplier to get there? See here what Walmart is doing. read here

10. (NYTimes) Entering roll-of-the-dice territory...: new research indicates that North Atlantic ocean current could shut down by end of century with unpredictable impact in Europe and around the world. read here

Enjoy and reflect 💭. Warm regards / saludos,

Julio