AI and sustainability, Climate holiday-reads, and all the best news from this week

Sustainability news from around the globe for startups and entrepreneurs 🗞

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Top global news

• ‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come

• Eating less meat 'like taking 8m cars off road'

• Rampant heatwaves threaten food security of entire planet, scientists warn

• Drones are showing us sharks like never before

• Climate change turns up the heat on supply chains

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AI and Sustainability

• Crowdsourcing AI Solutions for Climate Change: IAEA, ITU, FAO, UNESCO and the World Bank Launch AI for Good Contest for Start-ups

• The Green Dilemma: Can AI Fulfil Its Potential Without Harming the Environment?

• How to Make Generative AI Greener

• Japan's Green IT: A Game Changer In Environmental Sustainability

• The Role Of AI In Creating A More Sustainable Food System

• The hidden cost of the AI boom: social and environmental exploitation

• How can AI reduce workplace carbon emissions?

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Startups, Business, and Sustainability

• Better Barbiecore? Brands Weigh Conflicting Sustainability Messages

• Seven sustainability trends that will reign in 2023

• Weighing the future of fashion’s alternative materials, post-Mylo

• The truth hurts: how lack of female funding alters the startup landscape

• Investors baffled by watering-down of EU sustainable reporting plan

• Sustainability, and Other Tall Tales

• How startups are looking to create long-term value by integrating ESG

• Majority of business leaders optimistic about meeting sustainability disclosure requirements

• Sustainable finance: funding options for eco-friendly small businesses

From our WONDR community this week…

Socko Launches The Montys: The UK's First 100% Recycled Socks

London, UK - Socko, a female-founded sustainable sock brand based in the UK, has launched a new range of socks that are 100% recycled and made in the UK. The Montys collection is the UK's first 100% recycled socks and features a unisex design, plastic-free packaging, and comes in three different sizes and colours.

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The Museum of Climate Hope is opening in Oxford University Libraries but is also available online here

Adapting to the Anthropocene

• Take a journey through time with the Museum of Climate Hope trail

• I used to ride private planes. Now I’d rather get arrested protesting them

• How forests can become more effective ‘natural climate solutions’

• We must stop climate solutions from killing biodiversity

• Kelp and seaweed forests are overlooked climate change solutions, new research reveals

• As heat records break, the climate movement has the right answers – but the words are all wrong

• How nature can help cities fend off record-smashing heat

• Introducing the Climate Solutions Explorer

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Climate Crisis and the Environment

A man cools off in a fountain in Turin, Italy, during the Cerberus heatwave on Saturday (EPA)

• Extreme weather: the climate crisis in four charts

• World will miss 1.5C warming limit - top UK expert

• ’We can’t escape’: the climate crisis is driving up cost of living in the US west

• Climate Collapse Could Happen Fast

• Let’s hear from climate deniers as they holiday in 48c

• Chicago: Underground climate change is 'deforming' land under buildings and 'things are sinking', says study

• Why Is Europe’s Latest Heat Wave Called Cerberus? It’s Complicated

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Climate Holiday Reads

• Three New Books on Climate Change That Won’t Bum You Out

• ‘It’s not climate change, it’s everything change’: sci-fi authors take on the global crisis

• Books to help you stay inspired to fight climate change

• Extreme Heat Is Here to Stay. Why Are We Not More Afraid? (Review of The Heat Will Kill You First)

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