Sustainability Newsletter

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Welcome back to Evreka's Sustainability Bulletin :) We will be here every Thursday with developments from around the world.

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?? What's the best way to incentivize supplier sustainability? As companies map out how to reduce their environmental footprint and improve the lives of their employees and communities, one of the biggest challenges they face is their supply chain. For example, Carbon Trust research shows that indirect emissions represent between 65 percent and 95 percent of most companies’ carbon impact. So, how does, say, an apparel company make its supply chain more sustainable? In recent years, a small but growing number of large corporations have been experimenting with something called "sustainable supply chain finance." Similar to sustainability-linked loans, these financing programs reward suppliers that meet certain environmental and/or social criteria by offering them a reduced interest rate on a type of credit known as supply chain finance (SCF).Read more

?? Microsoft has set a number of climate and environmental goals. Not only net zero; it wants to be carbon negative by 2030. How it meets those and other targets, let alone how it uses its clout to reshape the tech industry’s approach to climate, rests on a number of people’s shoulders. Read more

?? Legislators from around the U.S. grappled with bottle bills for container deposits this year. Bottle bills were popular this legislative session, with updates and expansions passed or considered in several states. Read more

?? Climate protesters are using art to push the UK?government to take action against climate change. On Tuesday, a group of five people from the activist group Just Stop Oil glued themselves to a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting The Last Supper at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Underneath the image, they wrote the message “No New Oil” with spray paint.?Read more

?? New developments in film and resin technology advance efficiency and circularity goals. Several companies have released new products that are pushing plastics recycling forward, including PCR-specific additives and 83% recycled content films. Here’s a roundup of innovation news.?Read more

?? New York state is going all-in on clean energy and electrification. With an electric grid that serves more than 8 million people and little vacant land to spare, transitioning New York City to clean energy while at the same time electrifying its homes, industry, skyscrapers and vehicles is a tricky undertaking that will require a patchwork of renewable energy sources and a lot of battery storage.?Read more

?? New sand batteries can store energy for months! Sometimes it’s not sunny enough to depend on solar power, or windy enough to turn the windmill. So, Finnish researchers have devised a year-round, 24/7 energy source: a battery?made from sand. Read more