🍃The Sustainability Top 10: ESG risks now also legal risks?

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This week in sustainability we have ESG risks=legal risks?, generating sustainability reporting with AI, H&M’s big international clean energy project, EV battle heating up, biodiversity credits market gaining momentum, a STORY about Plastics stories in the news (fragments in bottled water, billions of costs to health system, recycling innovations, better reuse systems def more problematic that The Mean Girls’ Plastics who are back in movie theaters…), latest stats on green progress, and more…

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

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1. (Bloomberg) ESG risks now also legal risks in the EU?  Litigation finance, long a lucrative enterprise in America, is now becoming big business in Europe as investors eye huge returns as they contemplate the fallout of new laws addressing ESG compliance.  Certain investors are bankrolling the lawsuits. 

2. (GreenBiz) H&M is funding offshore wind in Bangladesh to get garment factories off fossil fuels.  read here