Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],

It’s that time of the year again when everyone professes their love for sustainability. Beginning earlier this week and lasting until 18 November, Egypt plays host to the annual congregation of nations that will try to thrash out a consensus on global climate policy. 

This is the 27th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) that signed the United Nations’ original 1992 climate agreement. (I wrote about COP26 and some of the consequent agreements and challenges last year.) And nobody really expects the rich nations to either keep their funding promises, or include loss-and-damage financing into their budgets. But this year, at least, the latter issue is on the table for discussion for the first time. 

Meanwhile, those who can are jumping into the annual season with their own fares. 

The Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress released a new report last week claiming that more than 800 million jobs, a quarter of the global workforce, are vulnerable to being disrupted due to climate change. They also included this rather depressing chart on the world’s most vulnerable regions in this regard:

McKinsey, too, launched its Sustainability Academy in late October.