💚🌊 The GreenWave Podcast By Synergy International 🌊💚 Episode 18 was out yesterday and you don't want to miss this one!

Remembering Francis, Climate Champion Pope

🌏 We land first in Australia’s Barossa and Margaret River, where sixth-generation estates slash their water bills with cloud-controlled drip lines and power barrel halls on home-grown sunshine. Wildflowers hum with bees, portable presses cut diesel miles, and bush-fire resilience plans now include turning smoke-tainted fruit into community hand sanitizer.

🏛️ Then we hop to Portugal’s gravity-defying Douro terraces and the cork-scented plains of Alentejo. Think micro-hydro turbines hidden in mountain streams, lynx-friendly wildlife corridors, and Roman clay amphorae resurrected as zero-kilowatt fermenters. Oh—and every cork you pop from these wines? It literally pulls extra carbon out of the sky.

🔬 Expect high-tech cameos too: paper bottles that weigh less than your smartphone, wind-assisted freighters shipping wine on a breeze, and blockchain-verified soil-carbon credits turning terroir into tradable climate assets. It’s the whole sustainability toolkit—served in one smooth, story-driven pour.

🎧 Ready to taste the future? Stream Episode 18 wherever you get your podcasts, then tell us which sustainable sip impressed you most. Because every bottle you choose is a tiny ballot for a healthier planet—and we think that deserves a toast. Check it out here: Episode 18

"If It's Not Profitable, It's Not Sustainable" Come Rain or Shine

🚀 As we've reiterated frequently in our posts here, we're true believers in the basic market truth: “If it’s not profitable, it’s not sustainable.” And if your company also believes that, it's time to double down, not duck out.

👀 A fresh piece in the Harvard Business Review (“Corporate Sustainability Is in Crisis”, Apr 22 2025) caught our attention. The HBR authors warn that tokenistic Corporate Social Responsibility is a sitting duck. Agreed. Sustainability must pivot from side-line storytelling to core-business engineering. Translation: set science-based targets, bake carbon cost into capital budgeting, and incentivise managers on decarbonisation per euro earned—not on glossy PDFs. Read more...

S&P Global Abandons NZFSPA: Joins A Crowded Lifeboat

📉 Throwing some of their own jargon back at them, S&P Global should go on credit watch for a downgrade to sustainability junk with negative outlook.

📰 On 11 April, with a difficult-to-now-find press release absent from the company's website press release section, S&P quietly slipped out of the UN-convened Net-Zero Financial Service Providers Alliance. The alliance – part of the broader GFANZ architecture – was designed to keep data vendors, index houses and second-opinion shops honest on 1.5 °C alignment. Read more...

The Latest Sustainability Developments

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Date: April 30, 2025 Location: Abu Dhabi This conference hosted by Environmental Finalnce will provide a vital platform for issuers, investors, and key stakeholders to engage in discussions shaping the future of sustainable finance in the Gulf. Our track record includes hosting one of the earliest Green Bond conferences, where the Green Bond Principles were first discussed, and we are proud to continue this tradition in the Middle East.

Hydrogen Economy Forum

Date: May 13, 2025 Location: Kuching, Malaysia The Hydrogen Economy Forum aims to discuss the development and implementation of hydrogen as a key component of the future energy economy, featuring experts from various sectors.

World Hydrogen Summit 2025

Date: 20-22 May 2025 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands The World Hydrogen Summit gathers global industry experts to exchange insights, build alliances, and sign agreements to advance hydrogen project developments into the 2030s. world-hydrogen-summit.com

International Hydrogen Technologies Congress

Date: May 25, 2025 Location: Izmir, Turkey This congress focuses on advancements in hydrogen technologies, providing a platform for researchers and industry professionals to discuss innovations and applications in the hydrogen sector.

2025 UN Ocean Conference

Date; 9 June - 13 June 2025 Location: Nice, France The high-level 2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (the 2025 UN Ocean Conference) will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica and held in Nice, France, from 9 – 13 June 2025.

African Energy Week (AEW) 2025

Date: September 29 to October 3, 2025 Location: Cape Town International Convention Centre 2 (CTICC2) in Cape Town, South Africa Organized by the African Energy Chamber, AEW serves as a premier platform uniting African energy stakeholders, global investors, and industry leaders for discussions on the continent's energy future. The event features high-level discussions, networking opportunities, exhibitions, private meetings, deal-signing forums, and project site visits, all aimed at driving industry growth and development.

20th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES)

Date: September 2025 (Exact dates to be confirmed) Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia This conference will gather scientists and professionals to discuss sustainable development in energy, water, and environmental systems. It serves as a platform for sharing research and advancements in these fields.

COP30 – 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference

Date: November 10–21, 2025 Location: Belém, Pará, Brazil The 30th UN Climate Change Conference will convene global leaders to discuss and negotiate actions to address climate change. This marks the first time the conference will be held in the Amazon region, highlighting the importance of rainforest conservation.