Sponsors
Premier Sponsors
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Their products empower more than 3 billion people around the world to share ideas, offer support and make a difference. Learn more at https://about.facebook.com.
Pachama
Pachama is a technology company on a mission to restore nature to solve climate change. Harnessing the latest advancements in satellite imagery, remote sensing and machine learning, Pachama estimates the carbon stored in our forests and monitors forest growth over time. By introducing a new standard of quality to carbon markets, Pachama connects responsible companies with technology-verified carbon credits from the world’s highest quality forest restoration projects.
SC Johnson
SC Johnson is a family company dedicated to innovative, high-quality products, excellence in the workplace and a long-term commitment to the environment and the communities in which it operates. Based in the USA, the company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of household cleaning products and products for home storage, air care, pest control and shoe care, as well as professional products. It markets such well-known brands as GLADE®, KIWI®, OFF!®, PLEDGE®, RAID®, SCRUBBING BUBBLES®, SHOUT®, WINDEX® and ZIPLOC® in the U.S. and beyond, with brands marketed outside the U.S. including AUTAN®, BAYGON®, BRISE®, KABIKILLER®, KLEAR®, MR MUSCLE® and RIDSECT®. The 134-year-old company, which generates $10 billion in sales, employs approximately 13,000 people globally and sells products in virtually every country around the world. Learn more at http://www.scjohnson.com.
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance. With approximately 262,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States.
Wells Fargo has committed to work throughout its value chain -- products and services, operations and culture, and strategic philanthropy -- to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. In 2018 the company committed to provide $200 billion in financing to sustainable businesses and projects by 2030 with more than 50 percent focused on renewable energy, clean technology and green-building transactions that directly support the transition to a low-carbon future. Additional news, insights and perspectives are available at https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/corporate-responsibility/environment/ and Wells Fargo Stories.
Supporting Sponsors
American Forests
We have worked longer than any national nonprofit conservation organization in the United States to protect and restore the country’s forests. Since our founding in 1875, we have been the pathfinders for the forest conservation movement. In the early 1900s, for example, we rallied forest advocates to champion creation of the U.S. Forest Service. In 2018, we won a decade-long campaign persuading Congress to provide stable funding for preventing and fighting forest fires. Now we are focused on building a reforestation movement in America, from cities to large, rural landscapes. We all rely on forests in order to survive and thrive, given the power they have to filter our air and water, provide jobs, mitigate climate change and more. But our forests are being degraded and destroyed at a rapid pace and large scale. If we take care of our forests, they will take care of us. Learn more at www.americanforests.org.
Indigo Ag
Indigo Ag harnesses nature and digital technologies to help the agriculture ecosystem sustainably feed the planet. Indigo’s scientific research and digital platforms have benefitted thousands of farmers. In 2019, the company launched Indigo Carbon, a scientifically backed program providing farmers with new revenue through verified agricultural carbon credits and companies the opportunity to invest in agriculture as a distinguished, impactful climate solution. Headquartered in Boston, MA, with additional offices in Memphis, TN; Research Triangle Park, NC; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Basel, Switzerland. Learn more at https://www.indigoag.com.
Keurig Dr Pepper
Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is a leading beverage company in North America, with annual revenue in excess of $11 billion and 25,000 employees. KDP holds leadership positions in soft drinks, specialty coffee and tea, water, juice and juice drinks and mixers, and markets the #1 single serve coffee brewing system in the U.S. and Canada. The Company’s portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partner brands is designed to satisfy virtually any consumer need, any time, and includes Keurig®, Dr Pepper®, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters®, Canada Dry®, Snapple®, Bai®, Mott's®, CORE® and The Original Donut Shop®. Through its powerful sales and distribution network, KDP can deliver its portfolio of hot and cold beverages to nearly every point of purchase for consumers. The Company is committed to sourcing, producing and distributing its beverages responsibly through its Drink Well. Do Good. corporate responsibility platform, including efforts around circular packaging, efficient natural resource use and supply chain sustainability. For more information, visit, www.keurigdrpepper.com.
Steelcase
For over 105 years, Steelcase Inc. has helped create great experiences for the world's leading organizations, across industries. We demonstrate this through our family of brands - including Steelcase®, Coalesse®, Designtex®, PolyVision®, Turnstone®, Smith System®, Orangebox® and AMQ®. Together, they offer a comprehensive portfolio of architecture, furniture and technology products and services designed to unlock human promise and support social, economic and environmental sustainability. We are globally accessible through a network of channels, including over 800 Steelcase dealer locations. Steelcase is a global, industry-leading and publicly traded company with fiscal 2019 revenue of $3.4 billion. Learn more at www.steelcase.com.
Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) is celebrating its 20th year as one of the world’s leading providers of technology, communications, information and entertainment products and services. Headquartered in New York City and with a presence around the world, Verizon generated revenues of $128.3 billion in 2020. The company offers data, video and voice services and solutions on its award winning networks and platforms, delivering on customers’ demand for mobility, reliable network connectivity, security and control. Verizon is committed to moving the world forward for everyone by expanding digital access, protecting the climate, and preparing people for the jobs of the future. Learn more at https://www.verizon.com/about/responsibility.
Contributing Sponsors
American Forest Foundation
The American Forest Foundation (AFF) is a national conservation organization that focuses on private and family-owned U.S. forests, empowering their owners to protect and improve the clean water, wildlife habitat, carbon storage, and sustainable wood supplies that come from these lands. AFF partners with companies who use or place a high value on forests for their business, to deliver measurable positive conservation impact. Using its experience and understanding of family forest owners, and its vast network of partners, AFF develops innovative solutions that help companies meet their environmental and sustainability goals and provide support to family forest owners in caring for their land. Learn more at www.forestfoundation.org.
Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
We have a presence in approximately 100 countries and regions worldwide and our innovative medicines have reached millions of people in the fight against serious illnesses. We focus on six therapeutic areas: cardiovascular disease, oncology, bone health, neuroscience, nephrology and inflammation. Our medicines typically address diseases for which there are limited treatment options, or they are medicines that provide a viable option to what is otherwise available. Learn more at Amgen.com.
Bank of America
At Bank of America, we’re guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better, through the power of every connection. We’re delivering on this through responsible growth with a focus on our environmental, social and governance (ESG) leadership. ESG is embedded across our eight lines of business and reflects how we help fuel the global economy, build trust and credibility, and represent a company that people want to work for, invest in and do business with. It’s demonstrated in the inclusive and supportive workplace we create for our employees, the responsible products and services we offer our clients, and the impact we make around the world in helping local economies thrive. Learn more at http://bankofamerica.com/environment.
Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is an employee-owned global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company with a more than 100-year track record of innovation in sustainable infrastructure. Since 1915, we have helped our clients improve the lives of people around the world by addressing the resilience and reliability of our most important infrastructure assets. Our revenues in 2020 exceeded US$3.0 billion. Follow us on www.bv.com and on social media.
Cargill
Cargill’s 160,000 employees across 70 countries work relentlessly to achieve our purpose of nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. Every day, we connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive. We combine 154 years of experience with new technologies and insights to serve as a trusted partner for food, agriculture, financial and industrial customers in more than 125 countries. Side-by-side, we are building a stronger, sustainable future for agriculture. Learn more at https://www.cargill.com.
Flex
Flex is the manufacturing partner of choice that helps a diverse customer base design and build products that improve the world. Through the collective strength of a global workforce across 30 countries and responsible, sustainable operations, Flex delivers technology innovation, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions to diverse industries and end markets. Learn more at https://flex.com.
Kwik Lok
Kwik Lok is in the business of “hacking the package” - We innovate clever advantages in food packaging. Starting with the original Kwik Lok in 1954, our practical sustainable closing products get food to the table faster, fresher and safer while reducing waste. As your packaging partner, we deliver production efficiencies and help you respond to evolving customer needs.
Kwik Lok is owned by third generation family leadership, with a vision to drive greater sustainability in the industry. We aim to transition the industry toward a sustainable future through innovation. Our “Fresh Start” initiative includes new products and process improvements that will help lower the carbon footprint of our products for our customers. Learn more at https://www.kwiklok.com.
NCX
With the creation of its carbon marketplace, NCX has reimagined forest carbon markets. We drive never-before scale by opening participation in forest carbon markets to landowners of all sizes while ensuring carbon buyers their purchase is driving real environmental and community impact. A heritage steeped in data, science, and forestry means precise measurements for every acre, every year. Learn more at ncx.com.
P&G Fabric Care
At Procter & Gamble (P&G), sustainability means making every day better for people and the planet through our products, services, operations and supply chain. From responding to natural disasters to providing plant-based products, we continue to innovate products and services to better serve the environment. P&G serves consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®, Dawn®, Downy®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®, Vicks®, and Whisper®. The P&G community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. Please visit https://www.pg.com/ for the latest news and information about P&G and its brands.
South Pole
South Pole is also a leading project developer, and has provided nearly 1,000 projects in over 50 countries with climate finance to reduce over a gigaton of CO2 emissions that meet the highest industry standards for certifying reductions. These projects also provide social benefits to less privileged communities which are particularly vulnerable to climate change.
Watershed
The technology to decarbonize the world exists — it's just too difficult for companies to deploy it today. Watershed is a software platform that changes that, helping the most ambitious companies model their carbon impact, aggressively reduce it, surface carbon data to decision makers across the company, and report on emissions to third-party standards bodies, investors, and governments. Watershed takes unstructured data from across a company’s entire operation, including its supply chain, to calculate a more accurate carbon footprint. Then it provides a plan to help companies reimagine their operations to cut emissions, and permanently remove whatever carbon remains via a trusted carbon removal marketplace. Finally, Watershed surfaces carbon data to the whole company, helping decision makers more easily make everyday choices with carbon impact in mind. Watershed works with the most ambitious private and public companies on their climate plans, including Stripe, Shopify, sweetgreen, Square, and more, and are backed by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins.
Community Partners
Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, a non-profit organization, educates and empowers manufacturers of consumer products to become a positive force for society and the environment, helping to bring about a new industrial revolution.
Biomimicry Institute
The Biomimicry Institute is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 that empowers people to seek nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. To advance the solution process, the Institute created AskNature.org, a free online tool that contains strategies found in nature and examples of how they could be used in design. It also hosts a Biomimicry Global Design Challenge and Youth Design Challenge to support project-based education, supports startup innovation through the Launchpad and Ray of Hope Prize® to bring designs to market, and connects innovators through the Global Biomimicry Network. Learn more at https://biomimicry.org.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
WBCSD is a global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world. We help make our member companies more successful and sustainable by focusing on the maximum positive impact for shareholders, the environment and societies.
Our member companies come from all business sectors and all major economies, representing a combined revenue of more than USD $8.5 trillion and 19 million employees. Our global network of almost 70 national business councils gives our members unparalleled reach across the globe. Since 1995, WBCSD has been uniquely positioned to work with member companies along and across value chains to deliver impactful business solutions to the most challenging sustainability issues.
Together, we are the leading voice of business for sustainability: united by our vision of a world where more than 9 billion people are all living well and within the boundaries of our planet, by 2050. Learn more at wbcsd.org
Closed Loop Partners
Closed Loop Partners is a New York-based investment firm comprised of venture capital, growth equity, private equity, project-based finance and an innovation center focused on building the circular economy. The firm has built an ecosystem that connects entrepreneurs, industry experts, global consumer goods companies, retailers, financial institutions and municipalities. Learn more at www.closedlooppartners.com.
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
GRI is an international independent organization that helps businesses, governments and other organizations understand and communicate the impact of business on critical sustainability issues such as climate change, human rights, corruption and many others.
Climate Now
Climate Now is a multimedia, expert-driven resource on the science and economics of climate change, covering the key scientific theories underpinning our understanding of how and why the climate is changing, clean energy technologies, important research, and policies relevant to the climate crisis and the energy transition. Our mission is to provide policy makers, business leaders, investors and journalists with the scientific and economic context necessary to make good decisions about policy formulation, capital allocation, and narrative focus.
BSR
BSR works with its global network of more than 250 member companies to build a just and sustainable world. From its offices in Asia, Europe, and North and South America, BSR develops sustainable business strategies and solutions through consulting, research, and cross-sector collaboration. Visit bsr.org to learn more about BSR's more than 20 years of leadership in sustainability.
Conservation International
Conservation International works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity. Since our inception, we’ve helped to protect more than 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million square miles) of land and sea across more than 70 countries. Currently with offices in 29 countries and 2,000 partners worldwide, our reach is truly global.
Future 500
Ceres
Ceres is a non-profit organization advocating for sustainability leadership. We mobilize a powerful network of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy.
Forum for the Future
Forum for the Future is one of the world’s leading sustainability non-profits. For over 20 years we’ve been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future. We specialise in addressing critical global challenges by catalysing change in key systems, from food to apparel, energy to shipping. We do this by convening transformational collaborations to drive change, by partnering with organisations to help them lead by example, and by building a global community of pioneers and change makers. Together we are reinventing the way the world works. Find out more at forumforthefuture.org or by following @Forum4theFuture on Twitter.
World Climate Foundation
World Climate Foundation is an impact-oriented organisation that works with inspiring leaders from government, business, financial institutions and civil society organisations to build resilience, and enabling the necessary transformation that addresses both the climate change and biodiversity crises. Through its collaborative, high-level network the World Climate Foundation identifies and accelerates cross-sector implementation of markets, technologies and policies, at the required scale, to realise change.
The Sustainability Consortium
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) is a global organization transforming the consumer goods industry to deliver more sustainable consumer products. We are dedicated to improving the sustainability of consumer products. Our Members and partners include manufacturers, retailers, suppliers, service providers, NGOs, civil society organizations, governmental agencies and academics. Each member brings valuable perspectives and expertise. TSC convenes our diverse stakeholders to work collaboratively to build science-based decision tools and solutions that address sustainability issues that are materially important throughout a product’s supply chain and lifecycle. TSC also offers a portfolio of services to help drive effective implementation.
Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC)
Green Sports Alliance
UN Global Compact
As a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. Launched in 2000, the mandate of the UN Global Compact is to guide and support the global business community in advancing UN goals and values through responsible corporate practices. With more than 9,500 companies and 3,000 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and more than 70 Local Networks, it is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world. For more information, follow @globalcompact on social media and visit our website at www.unglobalcompact.org.
Capitals Coalition
The Capitals Coalition unites the Natural Capital Coalition and the Social & Human Capital Coalition to transform the way decisions are made by including the value provided by nature, people & society.
CDP
CDP works to transform the way the world does business to prevent dangerous climate change and protect our natural resources. We see a world where capital is efficiently allocated to create long-term prosperity rather than short-term gain at the expense of our environment. Learn more at https://www.cdp.net.
Pyxera Global
We leverage the unique strengths of corporations, governments, social sector organizations, educational institutions, and individuals to enhance the abilities of people and communities to solve complex problems and attain mutually beneficial goals. With a quarter century of experience in more than 90 countries, our team is passionate and dedicated to navigating challenges and pinpointing purposeful global engagement opportunities for our clients and partners.
Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council
The Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support and recognize purchasing leadership that accelerates the transition to a prosperous and sustainable future.
Nori
Founded in 2017, Nori is on a mission to enable global engagement for mitigating and reversing climate change via carbon removal. Our blockchain-backed marketplace provides transparency and protection against double-counting issues present in other carbon markets. By providing a marketplace where anyone in the world can pay for and get paid for removing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide, Nori acts as a financial mechanism that will create new opportunities for climate innovation and carbon removal.
Renewable Thermal Collaborative
The Renewable Thermal Collaborative (RTC) is the global coalition for companies, institutions, and governments committed to scaling up renewable thermal energy – energy used for industrial processes and the heating and cooling of buildings. RTC members recognize the growing demand and necessity for renewable thermal solutions that deliver sustainable, cost-competitive options at scale. The RTC works with its members and sponsors to address technology, market, and policy barriers, and to accelerate renewable thermal development and deployment.
Intentional Endowment Network
The Intentional Endowments Network is a peer learning network of colleges, universities, and other mission-driven institutional investors working together to achieve their risk and return objectives through investment actions that create a thriving, sustainable economy.
Competent Boards
3BL Media
Founded in 2009, 3BL Media is a leading news distribution and content marketing company focused on niche topics including sustainability, health, energy, education, philanthropy, community and other social and environmental topics. 3BL Media’s unrivaled content distribution platforms and Brand Studio promote the environmental, social, governance (ESG) initiatives of leading companies, nonprofits and NGOs. Learn more at 3blmedia.com
Net Zero Partner
Watershed
The technology to decarbonize the world exists — it's just too difficult for companies to deploy it today. Watershed is a software platform that changes that, helping the most ambitious companies model their carbon impact, aggressively reduce it, surface carbon data to decision makers across the company, and report on emissions to third-party standards bodies, investors, and governments. Watershed takes unstructured data from across a company’s entire operation, including its supply chain, to calculate a more accurate carbon footprint. Then it provides a plan to help companies reimagine their operations to cut emissions, and permanently remove whatever carbon remains via a trusted carbon removal marketplace. Finally, Watershed surfaces carbon data to the whole company, helping decision makers more easily make everyday choices with carbon impact in mind. Watershed works with the most ambitious private and public companies on their climate plans, including Stripe, Shopify, sweetgreen, Square, and more, and are backed by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins.