CurationCurationA newsletter and blog unlike any other, Sustt brings you a weekly round-up of the latest developments in sustainability, with unique insights and lateral thinking into the topics that matter most.
What’s happening? Five energy companies are suing governments for £13bn ($17.8bn) under the...
24th September 2021
What’s happening? You’ve seen what’s happening: the steady rises in gas prices since the...
24th September 2021
What’s happening? The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has partnered with the Hong Kong...
24th September 2021
What’s happening? An estimated 216 million people could be forced to migrate within their own...
17th September 2021
What’s happening? Analysis from Swiss Re has found that climate-related risks could cause a 22%...
17th September 2021
What’s happening? People recently diagnosed with psychotic/mood disorders may need mental...
17th September 2021
What’s happening? Microsoft’s M12 venture capital operation has invested in photo and video...
17th September 2021
What’s happening? The UK should increase its support of alternative protein research, which...
17th September 2021
What’s happening? Anti-abortion website Texas Right to Life has been forced to change web host...
10th September 2021
What’s happening? Pledges by corporate leaders to serve a wider pool of stakeholders beyond...
10th September 2021
What’s happening? Compound Foods has raised $4.5m in seed funding, giving it $5.3m in total...
10th September 2021
What’s happening? Delaying retirement may slow cognitive decline, a paper in SSM –...
10th September 2021
What’s happening? Airbnb founder and CEO Brian Chesky has announced the company will start...
03rd September 2021
What’s happening? China will call on countries to acknowledge the importance of biodiversity to...
03rd September 2021
What’s happening? Seafood company Thai Union has launched a forensic science and DNA...
03rd September 2021
What’s happening? UK firm Lilli will install AI-backed sensors in the homes of 100 people in...
03rd September 2021
What’s happening? Research from the Grantham Institute at LSE has found that exceeding major...
27th August 2021
What’s happening? Infarm is building its second UK Growing Centre, which it claims will be among...
27th August 2021
What’s happening? Increasing the proportion of female directors improves the financial and...
27th August 2021
What’s happening? Greenland is to host its first ever motorsport event between 28-29 August as...
27th August 2021
What’s happening? The first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s...
20th August 2021
What’s happening? AI models used to examine x-rays can identify a patient’s race, but how the...
20th August 2021
What’s happening? Discount food app Too Good To Go, which sells surplus food from restaurants...
20th August 2021
What’s happening? The UK government has published its long-awaited Hydrogen Strategy for a...
20th August 2021
What’s happening? Global temperature increases of 1.5C will be reached in the next 20 years due...
13th August 2021
What’s happening? Big Tech stocks could soon be identified as some of the world’s largest...
13th August 2021
What’s happening? The fast roll-out of electric vehicles in the United Kingdom means the £100bn...
13th August 2021
What’s happening? Deep-sea mining is not necessary for the renewable-energy transition, according...
06th August 2021
What’s happening? A solar-powered project is being tested in the United Arab Emirates that could...
06th August 2021
What’s happening? Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its president, J Allen Brack, is...
06th August 2021
What’s happening? The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has launched Outreach Pro, a tool...
06th August 2021
What’s happening? The G20 has recognised carbon pricing as a tool to combat climate change for...
06th August 2021
What’s happening? Fujitsu is among the firms working with Astroscale on one of the first...
30th July 2021
What’s happening? Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost province in Argentina, has banned the use of...
30th July 2021
What’s happening? The Great Barrier Reef will not be included on a list of “in danger” world...
30th July 2021
What’s happening? The risk of contracting Covid-19 may be significantly increased with...
30th July 2021
What’s happening? The failure of national governments to pursue a green economic recovery from...
23rd July 2021
What’s happening? Native Hawaiian communities have managed to halt building work for the Thirty...
23rd July 2021
What’s happening? Regenstrief Institute-led researchers have received a grant from the National...
23rd July 2021
What’s happening? The Football Association (FA) has condemned the abuse targeted at Marcus...
16th July 2021
What’s happening? The failure to develop a market for carbon capture and storage (CCS) is...
16th July 2021
What’s happening? A new tracker by MSCI, covering around 9,000 companies, has found listed...
16th July 2021
What’s happening? The European Commission is planning a fund to support low-income households...
16th July 2021
What’s happening? A $15m scheme hoping to describe and identify freshwater ecosystem biodiversity...
09th July 2021
What’s happening? German challenger bank Tomorrow will offer a carbon emissions calculator on...
09th July 2021
What’s happening? Abu Dhabi-based G42 Healthcare has partnered with South Korean biotech firm...
09th July 2021
What’s happening? PayPal Holdings has pledged at least $100m to improve gender equality after...
09th July 2021
What’s happening? Pemex, Mexico’s national oil company, has said that fast action by its...
09th July 2021
What’s happening? An extreme heatwave has led to deaths across the north-west region of North...
02nd July 2021
What’s happening? The Stop Ecocide Foundation has drawn up a definition of ecocide with the...
02nd July 2021
What’s happening? The number of planned solar farms in the east of England has doubled in recent...
02nd July 2021
What’s happening? The US state of Colorado has turned to blockchain to help it manage its...
02nd July 2021
On Valentine’s Day 2021, President Biden declared a state of emergency in Texas(1). Severe winter...
25th June 2021
What’s happening? The 40-storey 825 Third Avenue building in Manhattan has been retrofitted with...
25th June 2021
What’s happening? The World Health Organization (WHO) draft Global Alcohol Action Plan has drawn...
25th June 2021
What’s happening? Some Fortune 500 company boards are “recycling” board members to fulfil...
25th June 2021
What’s happening? Nvidia has announced plans to invest over $100m in its Cambridge-1...
25th June 2021
If you have even a passing interest in cryptocurrency, then you will have certainly been aware of...
25th June 2021
What’s happening? Some financial analysts have been proclaiming the presence of an emerging...
17th June 2021
What’s happening? A Nevada law will see “non-functional” grass banned in Las Vegas, while...
17th June 2021
What’s happening? IKEA France has been handed a €1m ($1.2m) fine by a French court after...
17th June 2021
What’s happening? A climate law that would introduce a higher surcharge on car fuels and a levy...
17th June 2021
What’s happening? Data from Bank of America showed investments into ESG (environment, social and...
11th June 2021
What’s happening? Burger King will donate to the Human Rights Campaign for every Ch’King...
11th June 2021
What’s happening? A deal to limit global temperature rises to under 1.5C will only be achieved...
11th June 2021
What’s happening? Apple employees have urged the tech giant to embrace flexible working as part...
11th June 2021
What’s happening? A severe drought in Brazil, the world’s leading exporter of coffee, orange...
04th June 2021
What’s happening? A study by the Robert Gordon University expects that 65% of offshore energy...
04th June 2021
What’s Happening? Research from the website Comparethemarket.com has found the average cost of...
04th June 2021
What’s happening? China has said that married couples will be allowed to have up to three...
04th June 2021
What’s happening? Arctic “zombie fires” – fires from previous years that survive...
27th May 2021
What’s happening? Chevron’s shareholders have voted in support of a Follow This proposal for...
27th May 2021
What’s happening? The government of Sierra Leone has agreed a $55m deal with China that will see...
27th May 2021
What’s happening? Match Group has introduced a tool designed to stop offensive messages on the...
27th May 2021
What’s happening? In order for the world to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century – which is...
21st May 2021
What’s happening? Fair, a multi-lingual digital bank, has launched a service to improve financial...
21st May 2021
What’s happening? The risk of memory decline among older people may be reduced by online and...
21st May 2021
What’s happening? Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the company will no longer accept bitcoin due to...
21st May 2021
What’s happening? The US economy could receive a $186bn boost and 875,000 new jobs if access to...
13th May 2021
What’s happening? Smartphones have become the place where people “live”, a book published by...
13th May 2021
What’s happening? Water officials in drought-stricken California have presented a draft...
13th May 2021
What’s happening? A fuel pipeline that supplies the US’s East Coast has shut down following a...
13th May 2021
Corporate donors such as Bank of America and Walmart, along with Asian-American business leaders,...
07th May 2021
What’s happening? A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a network of lakes, marshes and streams...
07th May 2021
What’s happening? The New York Police Department (NYPD) has cancelled a contract worth around...
07th May 2021
What’s happening? Potentially dangerous particles leach from disposable plastic face masks (DPFs)...
07th May 2021
What’s happening? Sensi has developed an AI-based machine that rewards consumers for recycling...
29th April 2021
What’s happening? Climate campaigners are challenging ExxonMobil over its claims its algal...
29th April 2021
What’s happening? Heatherwick Studio has revealed a concept for an electric vehicle (EV) that can...
29th April 2021
What’s happening? The US has agreed to export raw materials to India to manufacture the...
29th April 2021
What’s happening? Volunteer organisation the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is debating...
23rd April 2021
What’s happening? The UK government will create the Global Ocean Wildlife Analysis Network, a...
23rd April 2021
What’s happening? Dublin City University, in collaboration with micro-mobility technology company...
23rd April 2021
What’s happening? Microsoft, Boeing and JPMorgan are among the firms to join the newly...
23rd April 2021
What’s happening? Last year saw methane concentrations in the atmosphere rise by 14.67 parts per...
16th April 2021
What’s happening? Factors that could help predict a woman’s age at natural menopause have been...
16th April 2021
What’s happening? US support for Japan’s multi-decade plan to release radioactive water...
16th April 2021
What’s happening? A law requiring Massachusetts to assess the social impact of infrastructure...
16th April 2021
What’s happening? The UN’s COP26 climate change conference may have to be postponed a...
08th April 2021
What’s happening? US start-up Watershed has developed an online calculator enabling companies...
08th April 2021
What’s happening? Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) researchers have created an...
08th April 2021
What’s happening? Republican lawmakers are attacking corporations that have voiced opposition to...
08th April 2021
What’s happening? UK GPs’ leader Martin Marshall has said doctors have been frustrated by...
01st April 2021
What’s happening? Junior employees in consulting, law or financial services are facing burnout at...
01st April 2021
What’s happening? Netflix has utilised the University of Bristol’s DIMPACT tool to...
01st April 2021
What’s happening? Putting the Asparagopsis taxiformis form of seaweed in cattle feed is a viable...
01st April 2021
What’s happening? Austrian researchers have developed an alternative metric to GDP and methods...
25th March 2021
What’s happening? Starbucks will work alongside coffee farmers to reduce carbon emissions and...
25th March 2021
What’s happening? UK start-up Deep Branch has raised €8m ($9.5m) to convert CO2 into animal...
25th March 2021
What’s happening? Former US President Donald Trump has said he is working on launching his own...
25th March 2021
What’s happening? Amazon has expanded its FC Games programme, which gamifies tasks at its...
18th March 2021
What’s happening? The Genesis Women’s Shelter in Dallas, Texas reported it encountered a loss...
18th March 2021
What’s happening? Chevron, Schlumberger and Microsoft have partnered to build a facility that...
18th March 2021
What’s happening? Three world heritage listed marine sites in Australia – the Great Barrier...
17th March 2021
What’s happening? Today is the World Day Against Cyber Censorship which highlights the ongoing...
12th March 2021
What’s happening? The energy use from growing cannabis legally in Colorado generates more CO2...
11th March 2021
What’s happening? A retinal implant that can provide artificial vision to blind people has been...
11th March 2021
What’s happening? Senior officials from the Biden administration have signalled they wish to work...
11th March 2021
What’s happening? Anuvia Plant Nutrients has secured $103m in Series C funding. The...
11th March 2021
Our thoughts on International Women’s Day. Plus, your last chance get Sustt+ free for one year....
08th March 2021
What’s happening? US President Joe Biden has restored the US’ internal estimate of the...
05th March 2021
What’s happening? Endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the environment are driving an increase in...
05th March 2021
What’s happening? Gig economy workers are increasingly turning to or developing...
05th March 2021
What’s happening? Female climate activists are targeted with misogynistic comments, and...
05th March 2021
What’s happening? Up to 85,000 Irish women and girls may be struggling to access period products,...
05th March 2021
What’s happening? A report card from the Australian government has found that the Great...
25th February 2021
What’s happening? Between June and November 2020, Denver’s Support Team Assisted Response...
25th February 2021
What’s happening? Mister Loo, which operates a chain of pay toilets in Thailand, saw sales grow...
25th February 2021
What’s happening? Turkish firm Bizero is piloting delivery robots as a way of preventing delivery...
25th February 2021
What’s happening? The construction of huge arrays of solar panels in the Sahara Desert could...
19th February 2021
What’s happening? US President Joe Biden has issued an executive order focusing on enhancing...
19th February 2021
What’s happening? The electricity consumption of bitcoin mining is around 121.36 TWh annually...
19th February 2021
What’s happening? Type 2 diabetes drug semaglutide could be a potential “game-changer” in...
19th February 2021
What’s happening? Shell has unveiled plans to become a major player in selling renewable energy...
19th February 2021
What’s happening? Canadian start-up Eavor has raised $40m in a funding round that included bp...
16th February 2021
What’s happening? The average level of air pollution in cities worldwide is around four times...
12th February 2021
What’s happening? RWE and bp have each secured 3 GW of capacity in the Crown Estate Round 4...
12th February 2021
What’s happening? The US economy is not taking into account the economic contribution that...
12th February 2021
What’s happening? The EU’s 2050 net-zero emissions goal could have a significant...
12th February 2021
What’s happening? Climeworks is among the climate-focused firms receiving investment from...
05th February 2021
What’s happening? The Ganges river and two nearby waterways are releasing up to three billion...
05th February 2021
What’s happening? The Australian mining industry is struggling to attract young talent due to a...
05th February 2021
What’s happening? A Flinders University study has discovered that tidal wetlands and protected...
05th February 2021
What’s happening? Some UK firms are creating databases to keep track of staff who have been...
30th January 2021
What’s happening? Scientists at MIT have designed a system that could capture nitrogen oxide...
30th January 2021
What’s happening? This story has been reported to death, and has received attention from...
30th January 2021
What’s happening? Apple has launched the “Time to Walk” feature for the Apple Watch, which...
30th January 2021
What’s happening? The European Commission has confirmed it will bring in a mechanism allowing...
30th January 2021
What’s happening? Underwater seagrass meadows may be naturally trapping millions of fragments of...
30th January 2021
What’s happening? China has launched its own national emissions trading scheme (ETS). The...
23rd January 2021
What’s happening? French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will...
23rd January 2021
What’s Happening? Chemicals company Ineos has donated £100m ($136.2m) to the University of...
23rd January 2021
What’s happening? A virtual summit of EU leaders saw angst directed towards pharmaceutical firms...
23rd January 2021
What’s happening? Amazon has become the latest technology company to act against social network...
16th January 2021
What’s happening? The Tuni glacier in Bolivia is shrinking more quickly than previously...
16th January 2021
What’s happening? The Trump administration’s auction of drilling rights in 1.6 million acres of...
16th January 2021
What’s Happening? UK downloads of health apps have substantially increased during the course of...
16th January 2021
What’s happening? The climate damage resulting from organic meat production is just as severe as...
09th January 2021
What’s happening? Over 220 Google employees have formed the Alphabet Workers Union, following...
09th January 2021
What’s happening? Israel is facing criticism from human rights organisations for excluding...
09th January 2021
What’s happening? The Covid-19 pandemic has forced US venture capitalists to abandon the...
09th January 2021
What’s happening? Global corporate pledges to slash emissions to net-zero have rapidly increased,...
09th January 2021
What’s happening? Pakistan could generate PKR43bn ($270m) in revenues with the recently launched...
02nd January 2021
What’s happening? The US FDA has approved trials by British American Tobacco’s (BAT)...
02nd January 2021
What’s happening? Google has agreed a Saudi Arabian cloud services deal with a division of...
02nd January 2021
What’s happening? AXA has proposed an alliance of firms from across the insurance industry...
02nd January 2021
What’s happening? Environmental Market Solutions researchers have developed a system using AI,...
02nd January 2021
What’s happening? Nine-year-old environmental activist Licypriya Kangujam has become the youngest...
19th December 2020
What’s happening? The Lancet Citizens’ Commission has been launched in India, with the aim...
19th December 2020
What’s happening? A “fertilisation effect” that has seen rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels...
19th December 2020
What’s happening? Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has promised to carry out a review of the firing of...
19th December 2020
What’s happening? Alternative conservative news networks Newsmax and One American News (OAN) are...
19th December 2020
What’s happening? Sony and other organisations have told the Japanese government they may look...
12th December 2020
What’s happening? Black Americans are the least willing to have a Covid-19 vaccine when one...
12th December 2020
What’s happening? Video apps, including one developed by the American Civil Liberties Union,...
12th December 2020
What’s happening? UK forces employment charity the RFEA and TechVets have partnered to train...
12th December 2020
What’s happening? China intends to increase its ability to modify weather and will expand an...
12th December 2020
What’s happening? Aston Martin CEO Tobias Moers has said the firm will investigate how a report...
05th December 2020
What’s happening? Apple, Coca-Cola and Nike are among several major US brands that have been...
05th December 2020
What’s happening? A climate lawsuit lodged by six Portuguese youth activists against 33 countries...
05th December 2020
What’s happening? Key countries the UK is looking to make post-Brexit deals with are all...
05th December 2020
What’s happening? French President Emmanuel Macron faces a political balancing act amid potential...
05th December 2020
What’s happening? Plug-in hybrid vehicles emit up to eight times more CO2 than carmakers claim in...
28th November 2020
What’s happening? Around 20% of disabled workers have had requests to work remotely rejected by...
28th November 2020
What’s happening? John Kerry, who was President Obama’s Secretary of State, has been appointed...
28th November 2020
What’s happening? Aviva Investors, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management and Nordea Asset...
28th November 2020
What’s happening? Producing a Covid-19 vaccine that can be distributed in poorer countries...
21st November 2020
What’s happening? NUS researchers have developed a process of transforming crustacean waste into...
21st November 2020
What’s Happening? Amazon customers can now order prescriptions via the Amazon Pharmacy store,...
21st November 2020
What’s happening? State decision-making in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) should prioritise the...
21st November 2020
What’s happening? A £12bn ($16bn) 10-point green plan that could create around 250,000 jobs has...
21st November 2020
What’s happening? TikTok has partnered with Shopify to enable merchants to advertise and sell...
14th November 2020
What’s happening? A climate tax should be imposed on food with a heavy environmental impact by...
14th November 2020
What’s happening? Some Shell advertisements, including for its US electric vehicle-charging firm...
14th November 2020
What’s happening? Social media platform Parler topped the US download chart following Donald...
14th November 2020
What’s happening? The election of Joe Biden as US president could bring the Paris Agreement...
14th November 2020
What’s Happening? Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that their Covid-19 vaccine candidate has...
14th November 2020
What’s happening? PwC, Linklaters and the NHS are among the members of the #10000BlackInterns...
07th November 2020
What’s happening? Large fish species, including shark and tuna, are carbon stores that should...
07th November 2020
What’s happening? Campaign group ShareAction has released researchfinding that Barclays, Credit...
07th November 2020
What’s happening? Reviewers at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have said they have...
07th November 2020
What’s happening? Baseless claims about the integrity of the US presidential election made by...
07th November 2020