Sponsors
Foundational Sponsor
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.
Premier Sponsors
Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. Learn more at amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.
Bloom Energy
Bloom Energy’s mission is to make clean, reliable energy affordable for everyone in the world. Bloom Energy’s product, the Bloom Energy Server, delivers highly reliable and resilient, always-on electric power that is clean, cost-effective, and ideal for microgrid applications. Bloom’s customers include many Fortune 100 companies and leaders in manufacturing, data centers, healthcare, retail, higher education, utilities, and other industries.Learn more at https://www.bloomenergy.com/
Nutrien
As the world’s largest provider of crop inputs, services and solutions, Nutrien plays a critical role in feeding the future by helping growers to increase food production in a sustainable manner. We’re moving the agriculture industry and the world forward – today and for generations to come. Learn more at www.nutrien.com.
Shell Energy
Shell Energy’s purpose is to Power Progress Together by providing more and cleaner energy solutions. Shell Energy offers a comprehensive suite of tailored products and solutions, including: rapidly growing capacity, trading and technical expertise and smart energy solutions, serving customers across the commercial and industrial sectors. With the scale and expertise of Shell behind us, we’re a global leader in innovation across the entire energy value chain -- from generation, trading, supply, to behind-the-meter solutions. Shell Energy is your guide, making it easier to manage day-to-day energy needs while increasing efficiency, reducing cost, and advancing your decarbonization goals. Shell Energy has the resources and vision to meet the evolving energy needs of customers today and tomorrow, working toward a better energy future.
Supporting Sponsors
OneTrust
OneTrust ESG simplifies the gathering, storing and assessing of your company's ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) data and metrics. OneTrust ESG comes with a powerful assessment platform, that helps identify and track both internal and third-party risks and manage ESG goals to make a successful ESG program. OneTrust ESG is a part of OneTrust, the #1 most widely used privacy, security and governance platform used by more than 10,000 customers and powered by 150 awarded patents. OneTrust ESG is powered by the OneTrust Athena™ AI and robotic automation engine, and integrates seamlessly with the full OneTrust platform. To learn more, visit OneTrust.com.
WSP
WSP USA is one of the nation’s largest environmental, engineering and professional services firms, with 12,000 employees in 175 offices across the U.S. WSP USA’s Climate, Resilience & Sustainability experts design Future Ready™ strategies that help organizations mitigate emissions, adapt to changing conditions, and identify climate-related risks and opportunities to become more resilient. We are a trusted partner in developing effective, equitable solutions across the entire process of climate preparedness. Reckon with the past. Innovate for the future. Learn more at wsp.com.
Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions
Your ambitious goals call for creative solutions. Forward-thinking ideas designed to help your business operate more reliably, more economically and more sustainably. That’s where Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions comes in. As a nationwide leader in renewable and sustainable energy, we know how to connect you to the energy infrastructure that your business needs today – and for decades to come.
Ecolab
A trusted partner at nearly three million commercial customer locations, Ecolab (ECL) is the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services. Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions, data-driven insights and personalized service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. Learn more at www.ecolab.com.
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.
Honeywell
Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT) is transforming the way every building operates to help improve the quality of life. We are a leading building controls company with operations in more than 75 countries supported by a global channel partner network. Commercial building owners and operators use our hardware, software and analytics to help create safe, efficient and productive facilities. Our solutions and services are used in more than 10 million buildings worldwide. For more information, please visit buildings.honeywell.com or follow us on Twitter @Honeywell.
Liberty Mutual
At Liberty Mutual, we believe progress happens when people feel secure. As one of the largest global property and casualty insurers, we operate according to high standards of governance and behavior. Underpinned by our conviction that insurance is a force for social good, we are well positioned to address environmental and social challenges and deliver security for employees, customers, businesses, communities and the environment. As we embrace this next decade, we are more motivated than ever to ensuring Liberty Mutual continues to make a difference as we tackle the world’s most pressing challenges.
Neste
Neste creates sustainable solutions for transport, business, and consumer needs and is one of the world’s largest producers of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) produced from waste materials. Our wide range of renewable products enable our customers to achieve their climate goals. In 2019, renewable products made by Neste prevented 9.6 million tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere and, in 2020, Neste placed 3rd on the Global 100 list of the most sustainable companies in the world. Learn more at: https://www.neste.us/
Contributing Sponsors
Chemours
At Chemours, we make the chemistry that helps create a more colorful, capable, and cleaner world, and we do this while striving to minimize our footprint. Our chemistry is essential to transportation, technology, energy, infrastructure, and communications, and so is our sense of responsibility. We call this balance responsible chemistry. It is embodied by the way our work contributes to a better world, solving the seemingly unsolvable, and it is articulated through our 10 Corporate Responsibility Commitment goals. Everything we do as a company is an expression of responsible chemistry and of our Corporate Responsibility Commitment.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric energy companies in the United States. Based in San Francisco, PG&E delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. PG&E offers a full portfolio of options to help customers save energy and reduce their carbon footprint. PG&E is also working to build climate resilience into its business along with the communities it serves. To learn more, visit www.pgecorp.com/sustainability and www.pgecurrents.com.
Corteva Agriscience
Corteva Agriscience is a publicly traded, global pure-play agriculture company that provides farmers around the world with the most complete portfolio in the industry - including a balanced and diverse mix of seed, crop protection and digital solutions focused on maximizing productivity to enhance yield and profitability. With some of the most recognized brands in agriculture and an industry-leading product and technology pipeline well positioned to drive growth, the company is committed to working with stakeholders throughout the food system as it fulfills its promise to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. Learn more at https://www.corteva.com/.
Renewable Energy Group
Renewable Energy Group (REG) is leading the energy industry's transition to sustainability by transforming renewable resources into high-quality, cleaner fuels. REG is an international producer of cleaner fuels and one of North America’s largest producers of advanced biodiesel. REG solutions are alternatives for petroleum diesel and produce significantly lower carbon emissions. REG utilizes an integrated procurement, distribution and logistics network to operate 12 biorefineries in the U.S. and Europe.
Deloitte
Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world’s most admired brands, including 80 percent of the Fortune 500 and more than 6,000 private and middle market companies. Our people work across more than 20 industry sectors to deliver measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in our capital markets, inspire clients to make their most challenging business decisions with confidence, and help lead the way toward a stronger economy and a healthy society.
Rubicon
Rubicon is a software platform that provides smart waste and recycling solutions for businesses and governments worldwide. Using technology to drive environmental innovation, the company helps turn businesses into more sustainable enterprises, and neighborhoods into greener and smarter places to live and work. Rubicon’s mission is to end waste by helping its partners find economic value in their waste streams and confidently execute on their sustainability goals. Learn more at www.rubicon.com.
Devvio
Devvio introduces trust, transparency and simplicity to the ESG space, guiding organizations through the process of implementing projects, reporting results, and improving ratings.
Our comprehensive platform, called DevvESG, delivers the world’s first open platform and verifiable source of truth for ESG data and tokens—and importantly, we link that data to real projects and assets.
The result? We ensure that all parties in the ESG ecosystem—investors, regulators, third-party ratings providers, and more—have access to authentic and verifiable data, providing a common source of truth for ESG.
Schneider Electric
At Schneider, we believe access to energy and digital is a basic human right. We empower all to do more with less, ensuring Life Is On everywhere, for everyone, at every moment.
We provide energy and automation digital solutions for efficiency and sustainability. We combine world-leading energy technologies, real-time automation, software and services into integrated solutions for Homes, Buildings, Data Centers, Infrastructure and Industries.
We are committed to unleash the infinite possibilities of an open, global, innovative community that is passionate with our Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values. Learn more at www.se.com/us.
DNV-GL
DNV is an independent assurance and risk management provider, operating in more than 100 countries, with the purpose of safeguarding life, property, and the environment. Whether assessing a new ship design, qualifying technology for a floating wind farm, analyzing sensor data from a gas pipeline or certifying a food company's supply chain, DNV enables its customers and their stakeholders to manage technological and regulatory complexity with confidence. As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our broad experience and deep expertise to advance safety and sustainable performance, set industry standards, and inspire and invent solutions.
We provide assurance to the entire energy value chain through our advisory, monitoring, verification, and certification services. As the world's leading resource of independent energy experts and technical advisors, we help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry. We are committed to realizing the goals of the Paris Agreement, and support our customers to transition faster to a deeply decarbonized energy system.
SkyNRG
SkyNRG is the pioneer and a global leader in sustainable aviation fuel with the industry's most extensive dedicated sustainable aviation fuel team.
Our ambition and purpose are to build a more sustainable aviation industry by making sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) available for everyone, driven by sustainable practices throughout the supply chain. By partnering with us - and thus using SAF - we help our customers reach their GHG emission reduction targets.
EcoVadis
EcoVadis is the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains. Backed by a powerful technology platform and a global team of domain experts, EcoVadis’ easy-to-use and actionable sustainability scorecards provide detailed insight into environmental, social and ethical risks across 200 purchasing categories and 160 countries. Industry leaders such as Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, L’Oréal, Subway, Nestlé, Salesforce, Michelin and BASF are among the more than 75,000 businesses on the EcoVadis network, all working with a single methodology to evaluate, collaborate and improve sustainability performance in order to protect their brands, foster transparency and innovation, and accelerate growth. Learn more on ecovadis.com, Twitter or LinkedIn.
Terrestrial Energy
Terrestrial Energy is a developer of small and modular nuclear power plants that use its proprietary Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) technology. IMSR technology is non-Light Water Reactor and Generation IV technology. It represents a step-change improvement in economics, versatility and functionality of nuclear power plants that is possible only through Generation IV technology. IMSR power plants will provide resilient, reliable, dispatchable, zero-carbon and cost-competitive electric power, as well as high-grade industrial heat for use in many industrial applications, such as chemical synthesis, hydrogen production and desalination, and in so doing, extend the application of nuclear energy far beyond electric power markets. IMSR power plants have the potential to make important contributions to industrial competitiveness, energy security, and economic growth. Their deployment will support rapid global decarbonization of the primary energy system by displacing fossil fuel combustion across a broad spectrum and can scale to meet net-zero policy goals of major industrial economies. Using an innovative design, and proven and demonstrated molten salt reactor technology, Terrestrial Energy is engaged with regulators and industrial partners to complete IMSR engineering and to commission first IMSR power plants in the late 2020s.
Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak is a world leading food processing and packaging solutions company. Working closely with our customers and suppliers, we provide safe, innovative and environmentally sound products that each day meet the needs of hundreds of millions of people in more than 160 countries. With more than 25,000 employees around the world, we believe in responsible industry leadership and a sustainable approach to business. Our promise, “PROTECTS WHAT’S GOOD™," reflects our vision to commit to making food safe and available, everywhere. More information about Tetra Pak is available at www.tetrapak.com/en-us.
Edison Energy
Edison Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), provides independent, global advisory solutions to help large corporate, industrial, and institutional clients better understand and navigate the choices and risks of managing energy. Through an integrated portfolio approach, Edison Energy enables decision-makers in organizations to deliver on their strategic, financial and sustainability goals. Providing a suite of specialized services across sustainability, analytics, renewables, supply, and demand, Edison Energy addresses the three biggest challenges in energy today: cost, carbon, and complex choices. For more information about Edison Energy visit www.edisonenergy.com.
Thoughtworks
Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery. We are on a mission to develop and accelerate the adoption of more climate-friendly software, tools, and services that generate sizable environmental dividends while optimizing cost savings for our clients. Our new open-source solution, Cloud Carbon Footprint, provides the visibility to measure and monitor cloud usage data, and provides tailored recommendations to help clients take action and achieve their sustainability goals.
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Uber
Uber’s mission is to create opportunity through movement. We started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how do you get access to a ride at the touch of a button? More than 25 billion trips later, we're building products to get people closer to where they want to be. By changing how people, food, and things move through cities, Uber is a platform that opens up the world to new possibilities.
ENGIE Impact
ENGIE Impact accelerates sustainability transformation for corporations, cities and governments. We help organizations embed sustainability into their operational strategies, allowing them to bridge the gap between sustainability commitments and realized results that capture economic value and make organizations more competitive over the long term.
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.
Enviva
Enviva is the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets, a renewable and sustainable energy source used to generate electricity and heat. We export our pellets to power plants in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Japan that previously were fueled by coal, enabling them to reduce their lifecycle carbon footprint by more than 85 percent. We make our pellets in the U.S. Southeast using sustainable practices that protect Southern forests, employ about 1,200 people, and support many other businesses in the U.S. Southeast. Our mission is to displace coal, grow more trees, and fight climate change. To learn more about Enviva, please visit our website at www.envivabiomass.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.
ABB
ABB is a technology leader with a comprehensive offering for digital industries. With a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB is today a leader in digital industries with four customer-focused, globally leading businesses: Electrification, Industrial Automation, Motion, and Robotics & Discrete Automation, supported by its common ABB Ability™ digital platform. Learn more at www.abb.com.
Google Nest
Nest is a portfolio of devices and services that deliver energy, safety, security and helpful solutions for your home. Nest smart home products include smart speakers, smart displays, streaming devices, mesh Wi-Fi routers, thermostats, smoke detectors, and security systems including smart doorbells, smart locks, and Nest Renew.
Acario Innovation
Acario Innovation is the Silicon Valley-based corporate venture capital and open innovation arm of Tokyo Gas. Acario is focused on partnering with and funding market-leading companies in the new energy economy and sustainability sectors. We are active in decarbonization and hydrogen technologies, new energy services, and digital transformation . As a dedicated subsidiary of Tokyo Gas, Acario plays a key role in TokyoGas’ efforts to achieve its Compass 2030 vision of becoming a net-zero company.
HP Inc.
HP Inc. creates technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere. Through our product and service portfolio of personal systems, printers and 3D printing solutions, we engineer experiences that amaze. As part of our Sustainable Impact strategy, HP is taking bold and comprehensive steps to drive climate action, protect human rights and accelerate digital equity. We hold ourselves accountable by striving for some of the most comprehensive goals in our industry. Learn more at www.hp.com/sustainableimpact.
AutoGrid
The world’s leading energy companies turn to AutoGrid to integrate all distributed energy resources, turn on new revenue streams and drive deeper engagement with their customers. Our suite of Energy Internet applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver clean, affordable and reliable energy in a distributed energy world. By pioneering the science of flexibility management, AutoGrid enables energy providers to mine the Energy Internet’s rich data lode to extract flexible capacity from distributed energy resources.
HydroPoint
HydroPoint® is the proven leader in smart water management solutions. Its WeatherTRAK®, Baseline™, and WaterCompass® product lines help companies maximize water savings, reduce operating costs, minimize business risks, and achieve sustainability goals. An EPA WaterSense® Partner of the Year, HydroPoint combines IoT technology, data analytics, and automation to optimize irrigation, flow management, and leak detection. Its solutions deliver visibility and control to commercial, government, education, and community sites.
BayWa r.e.
BayWa r.e. provides advice, delivery and support for renewable energy solutions, including solar, wind, bioenergy and geothermal. With more than 25 years of experience and 4.5 GW of renewable energy transactions completed globally, our team combines local expertise with global experience and a stable financial foundation. We are committed to enabling the success of the clients we serve, the communities in which we operate and providing leadership in the fight against climate change.
Johnson Controls
Johnson Controls’ Building Technologies & Solutions is making the world safer, smarter and more sustainable – one building at a time. Our technology portfolio integrates every aspect of a building – whether security systems, energy management, fire suppression or HVACR – to ensure that we exceed customer expectations at all times. We operate in more than 150 countries through our unmatched network of branches and distribution channels, helping building owners, operators, engineers and contractors enhance the full lifecycle of any facility. Our arsenal of brands includes some of the most trusted names in the industry, such as Tyco®, YORK®, Metasys®, Ruskin®, Titus®, Frick®, PENN®, Sabroe®, Simplex® and Grinnell®. Learn more at www.johnsoncontrols.com or follow @JCI_Buildings on Twitter.
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.
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.
BlueTriton Brands
BlueTriton Brands provides people with an unrivaled portfolio of bottled waters for healthy hydration. Brands such as Nestlé Pure Life®, Arrowhead®, Poland Spring®, Perrier® and San Pellegrino® have driven BlueTriton Brands to be the third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume in the U.S. Based in Stamford, Connecticut with some 8,500 employees, BlueTriton Brands is committed to reducing its environmental footprint across operations. As a natural resource company, BlueTriton Brands sustainably manages our 47 spring sources and maintains more than 20,000 acres of natural watershed area. The company is also committed to creating shared value and being a good neighbor in the 140 communities where it operates in the U.S.
Ørsted
The Ørsted vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy. Ørsted develops, constructs, and operates offshore and onshore wind farms, solar farms, energy storage facilities, and bioenergy plants, and provides energy products to its customers. Ørsted ranks as the world's most sustainable energy company in Corporate Knights' 2021 index of the Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the world and is recognised on the CDP Climate Change A List as a global leader on climate action. Headquartered in Denmark, Ørsted's shares are listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen (Orsted). In 2020, the group's revenue was DKK 52.6 billion (EUR 7.1 billion).
Participating Sponsors
Natural Capital Partners
Natural Capital Partners, the leading experts on carbon neutrality and climate finance, works with more than 300 clients in 34 countries, including Microsoft, Logitech, Interface, HP and Nestle Waters, to deliver climate action solutions of the highest quality. Through a global network of projects which reduce carbon emissions, generate renewable energy, build resilience in supply chains, conserve and restore forests and biodiversity, and improve health and livelihoods, Natural Capital Partners’ clients are able to meet carbon neutrality and net zero targets. The CarbonNeutral Protocol, which is managed by Natural Capital Partners, provides a robust framework for clear, transparent and high quality carbon neutral action for businesses to achieve carbon neutrality, including CarbonNeutral® product certification.
One Tree Planted
One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees! They lead reforestation projects in North America, South America, Africa, and Asia by working with local communities and only native tree species that are grown in nearby nurseries. Each project focus is different, and can include forest fire restoration, agroforestry, watershed health, biodiversity, environmental disaster recovery, climate, and social impact. Many projects have overlapping objectives, creating a combination of benefits that contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Beyond such projects, One Tree Planted believes that truly engaging people who want to have a personal experience is critical to raising awareness through action. That's why they also organize volunteer events throughout the world in order to help get more hands in the dirt to help the planet! Learn more at https://onetreeplanted.org/.
Persefoni
Persefoni is a SaaS company that enables enterprises and institutional investors to measure, analyze, plan, forecast, and report on their carbon footprint. The Persefoni platform leverages AI to provide users contextual sustainability performance scores for their organization and enables them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor as their financial ones. Built for both reporting companies and institutional investors, Persefoni is a complete carbon footprint management system.
Puro.earth
Puro.earth is the world’s first B2B marketplace, standard and registry focused solely on carbon removal. Our mission is to mobilize the world’s economy to reward carbon net-negative emissions. We do this by helping voluntary corporate buyers accelerate carbon dioxide removal at an industrial global scale. Puro.earth provides carbon removal as a service, through identifying suppliers, verifying their carbon removals and issuing CO2 Removal Certificates (CORCs), an integral part of long-term procurement portfolios to fulfill net-zero pledges. Aiming at climate and economic impact, Puro.earth is driving forward a market of carbon negative industries, enabling a new revenue stream to accelerate their growth. In 2021, Nasdaq acquired a majority stake in Puro.earth. Visit us at https://puro.earth or on LinkedIn Puro.earth CO2 Removal Marketplace and Twitter @PuroCO2Removal.
QuantumScape
QuantumScape is a leader in the development of next generation solid-state lithium-metal batteries for use in electric vehicles. The company’s solid-state lithium-metal battery technology will enable electric vehicles to charge faster and have a longer range than what is currently available today and be safer, longer-lasting, and cheaper. This drives QuantumScape’s mission to revolutionize energy storage to enable a sustainable future.
3Degrees
3Degrees, a certified B Corporation, makes it possible for businesses and their customers to take urgent action on climate change. We help organizations around the world achieve renewable energy and decarbonization goals through our work with global Fortune 500 companies, utilities, and other organizations that want to join the fight against climate change. The 3Degrees team has deep expertise in sustainability consulting, environmental markets, renewable energy and carbon project development, transportation decarbonization solutions, and utility renewable energy programs. Together with our customers, 3Degrees helps develop and implement creative solutions that ensure environmental integrity and make good business sense. Learn more at 3degrees.com.
CIBO
Founded by Flagship Pioneering, with the idea of applying advanced science and technology to generate a deep understanding of land and agricultural systems at scale, CIBO is focused on accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture. Combining scaled scientific ecosystem simulation and advanced computer vision in an integrated cloud-based platform, CIBO delivers solutions that support the needs of both growers and enterprises on their journey to regenerative agriculture. The result for the environment is a reduction in greenhouse gases, a food system that is more resilient to climate change, and the prevention of nitrogen and phosphorus leaching into our water systems. CIBO is a 2021 Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards finalist and was named 2021 AgTech Breakthrough “AI-based AgTech Company of the Year.” Learn more at cibotechnologies.com.
Climate Interactive
Climate Interactive is a think tank that creates tools and resources to help people explore connections, play out scenarios, and see what works to address climate change, inequity, and related issues like energy, health, and food. Climate Interactive’s unique tools and analysis distill complex science and data into forms accessible to a wide range of audiences with computer modeling, systems thinking, organizational learning, and cutting-edge facilitation practices.
The mission of the Sustainability Initiative is to provide the best education, apply academic rigor to real world problems, and empower leaders everywhere to act, professionally and personally, so that humans and nature can thrive for generations to come. We do this through the joint efforts of MIT students, faculty, alumni, researchers, and partners in business, government, NGOs, and hybrid organizations
Freightwaves
FreightWaves is the world’s leading provider of freight market forecasting, data, news and analysis. Logistics and supply chain firms depend on FreightWaves for benchmarking, analytics, monitoring and forecasting of pricing, capacity, demand, energy and carbon intelligence. The company provides the freshest data and market insights through SONAR, a subscription SaaS platform, and through the world’s largest streaming media network focused on logistics and supply chain information
Genentech
Genentech is a leading biotechnology company dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. Our transformational discoveries include the first targeted antibody for cancer and the first medicine for primary progressive multiple sclerosis. Learn more at https://www.gene.com/.
Hammer of the Gods
Hammer Of The Gods (HOT-G) is building the developer experience tools and infrastructure for all edge computing. Our open-source technology is bringing security, monitoring, orchestration, and observability for on-device computing across a spectrum of edge devices and sensors. Visit https://hotg.dev/
Community Partners
Gold Standard
Gold Standard was established in 2003 by WWF and other international NGOs to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions featured the highest levels of environmental integrity and also contributed to sustainable development. With the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals, we launched a best practice standard for climate and sustainable development interventions, Gold Standard for the Global Goals, to maximise impact, creating value for people around the world and the planet we share.
Institute for Market Transformation
The Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization promoting energy efficiency, green building, and environmental protection in the United States and abroad. IMT's work addresses market failures that inhibit investment in energy efficiency and sustainability in the building sector.
E2
Environmental Entrepreneurs is a national community of business leaders who promote sound environmental policy that builds economic prosperity. E2 is the independent business voice for the environment. Learn more at http://www.e2.org.
Pacific Institute
The Pacific Institute is a global water think tank that provides science-based thought leadership with active outreach to influence local, national, and international efforts in developing sustainable water policies. The Pacific Institute’s mission is to create and advance solutions to the world’s most pressing water challenges. From working with Fortune 500 companies to disenfranchised communities, we create and advance innovative sustainable water policies and deliver meaningful results. Visit us at www.pacinst.org and follow us on Twitter @PacificInstitut.
World Climate Forum
Taking place virtually on September 22 during New York Climate Week and the United Nations General Assembly, World Climate Forum NORTH AMERICA 2021 will gather senior policymakers and high-level public and private actors from around the world for action-oriented discussions on advancing net-zero targets across all sectors, required to limit global warming to 1.5 degree, as well as accelerate the green recovery and adaptation. Through a strong and engaging digital platform, World Climate Forum NORTH AMERICA 2021 will present opportunities for the advancement of global climate goals and momentum towards COP26 through public-private collaboration, innovation, policy regulations and sustainable investment strategies.
The Open Group
The Open Group is a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards. Our diverse membership of more than 850 organizations includes customers, systems and solutions suppliers, tool vendors, integrators, academics, and consultants across multiple industries. Further information on The Open Group can be found at www.opengroup.org.
In 2020, The Open Group launched the Open Footprint™ Forum with the aim of developing open, vendor-neutral standards to enable consistent measurement of environmental Footprint data. Find out more at https://www.opengroup.org/openfootprint-forum
Food Tank
We're building a global community for safe, health, nourished eaters .We aim to educate, inspire, advocate, and create change. We spotlight and support environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and poverty and create netowrks of people, organizations, and content to push for food system change.
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.
The Climate Collaborative
The Climate Collaborative is a project of OSC2 and SFTA to catalyze bold climate action among natural products companies. The ClimateCollaborative brings manufacturers, retailers, brokers, distributors, and suppliers together to build existing climate solutions to scale and to find innovative, new ways to help reverse climate change. Follow the Climate Collaborative on Facebook @climatecollab and on Twitter @ClimateColl. Learn more at https://www.climatecollaborative.com.
Youth Climate Leaders
Created in 2018 by four Brazilian women, Youth Climate Leaders (YCL) offers solutions to help young people tackle two main challenges of this century: the climate crisis and structural unemployment. Although young people make up the majority of the global population, they continue to encounter barriers to job opportunities and economic security, while dealing with an uncertain future due to the climate crisis.
To reverse this scenario, YCL aims to empower 1 million young people to lead climate projects as part of a global network. YCL believes that it is possible to propagate professional opportunities for young people through education and bridging gaps with organizations that already operate in this sector. We also offer access to a global network and opportunities in organizations and projects engaged in the transition to a more just and carbon neutral society.
New Energy Nexus
New Energy Nexus works to accelerate the great energy transition by supporting entrepreneurs who are powering the thousands of businesses, technologies, and innovations needed to break open the economic and social opportunities of a clean energy future. Learn more at http://www.energynexus.co.
Sustain SoCal
Sustain Southern California (Sustain SoCal) accelerates cleantech economic growth and sustainability initiatives through innovation, collaboration and education in Southern California.
Climate Action
Established in 2007 and headquartered in London, UK, Climate Action has, for the last six years, worked in a unique, contractual partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – the world’s foremost body on environmental protection and stewardship.
Climate Action establishes and builds partnerships between business, government and public bodies to accelerate international sustainable development and advance the ‘green economy’.
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.
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. The company works with organizations including multinational corporations, SME's, and non-profits to distribute multi-format media assets through social, traditional and new media channels. 3BL Media leverages its expertise in communications, technology and social media to enable organizations to more effectively communicate about their initiatives to the press, investors, consumers and other critical stakeholder groups.
Antenna
Center for Resource Solutions
Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) is a national nonprofit with global impact. It develops expert responses to climate change issues with the speed and effectiveness necessary to provide real-time solutions. Its leadership through collaboration and environmental innovation builds policies and consumer-protection mechanisms in renewable energy, greenhouse gas reductions, and energy efficiency that foster healthy and sustained growth in national and international markets.
Arizona State University
The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability is the hub of Arizona State University’s sustainability initiatives. The ASU Wrigley Institute advances research, education and business practices for an urbanizing world. Its School of Sustainability, the first of its kind in the U.S., offers transdisciplinary degree programs focused on finding practical solutions to social, economic and environmental challenges.
REBA
The Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) is a membership association for large-scale energy buyers seeking to procure renewable energy across the U.S. Today, our membership of over 200, includes stakeholders from across the commercial and industrial sector, non-profit organizations, as well as energy providers and service providers. Learn more at https://rebuyers.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.
The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE)
NACFE, The North American Council for Freight Efficiency, works to drive the development and adoption of efficiency enhancing, environmentally beneficial, and cost-effective technologies, services and methodologies in the North American freight industry. Learn more at https://nacfe.org.
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.
Climate Neutral
Climate Neutral works to decrease global carbon emissions by getting brands to measure, offset, and reduce the carbon they emit. We believe consumers and brands must work together to drive the world toward the zero net emissions future that science tells us we urgently need. We built a simple set of tools and a certification that makes carbon footprinting more accessible, sets clear guidelines for carbon offsetting, and inspires brands to work on reducing emissions directly. When a brand gets certified, it achieves zero net carbon emissions for all of the carbon it creates while making and delivering its products or services for a year. The Climate Neutral Certified label makes it easy for consumers to find certified brands.
Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC)
Ecosystem Marketplace
Ecosystem Marketplace, a project of Forest Trends, is a leading source of news, data, and analytics on markets and payments for ecosystem services – water quality, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity. We believe that by making accessible information on policy, finance, regulation, science, and business, markets for ecosystem services will one day become a fundamental part of our economic system.
RMI
RMI is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization of experts across disciplines working to accelerate the clean energy transition and improve lives. Since our founding in 1982 by Amory Lovins, RMI’s chairman emeritus, we have grown to 300 staff working on four continents with a global reach and reputation.
CharIN
The CharIN Vision: Developing and establishing the Combined Charging System (CCS) as the global standard for charging battery powered electric vehicles. Learn more at https://www.charinev.org.
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.
Veloz
Veloz is a nonprofit organization made up of a high-powered, diverse board and members from key sector companies, agencies and nonprofits. With unparalleled stakeholder leadership, Veloz is uniquely able to accelerate the shift to electric cars through public-private collaboration, public engagement and policy education innovation. Veloz powers Electric For All, a free electric car consumer shopping tool to make it easy to find the electric car that is right for you with incentives, dealer and car lookup features and the Home Charging Advisor. www.electricforall.org
Accelerate Partners
Imagine H2O
Imagine H2O®, the water innovation accelerator, provides entrepreneurs with the resources, insight and visibility to launch and scale water solutions. By partnering with industry and policy experts and a global network of customers and investors, Imagine H2O has become a proven path-to-market for emerging water technology businesses. Participants benefit from access to mentorship, industry exposure, customer and investor connections and strategy, marketing and sales support. Since 2009, Imagine H2O’s accelerator has helped over 70 innovative companies win customers and receive more than $1 in every $10 of early stage investment in the water sector.
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)
Los Angeles has launched its cleantech business incubator to accelerate development of cleantech start-ups by offering flexible office space, CEO coaching and mentoring, and access to a growing network of experts and capital. LACI is the business equivalent of baseball’s farm system: it identifies local talent, nurtures it, and helps it get to market, resulting in more jobs and a bigger green economy in Los Angeles.
Elemental Excelerator
Elemental Excelerator helps startups change the world, one community at a time. Each year, it finds 15-20 companies that best fit its mission and funds each company up to $1 million to improve systems that impact people's lives: energy, mobility, water, agriculture, and beyond. To date, it has awarded over $30 million to 82 companies. Learn more at https://elementalexcelerator.com.
Third Derivative
Founded by RMI and New Energy Nexus, Third Derivative is a global climate technology startup accelerator aimed at accelerating the rate of climate innovation. Our vertically-integrated model rapidly finds, funds, and scales climate tech globally by uniting investors, corporates, market and policy experts, and startups to work together to increase the success and speed to market for climate innovation. Learn more at https://third-derivative.org/.
Urban Future Lab
Urban Future Lab is the center of cleantech innovation in New York. We are leading the way to a more sustainable world by connecting people, capital, and purpose to advance market-ready solutions to address climate change. Learn more at http://ufl.nyc.
Cleantech San Diego
Cleantech San Diego is a nonprofit member organization that positions the greater San Diego region, including Imperial County, as a global leader in the cleantech economy. The organization achieves this by fostering collaborations across the private-public-academic landscape, leading advocacy efforts to promote cleantech priorities, and encouraging investment in the San Diego region.
Cleantech San Diego’s membership includes more than 100 local businesses, universities, governments, and nonprofits committed to advancing sustainable solutions for the benefit of the economy and the environment. Learn more at http://cleantechsandiego.org.
Greentown Labs
Greentown Labs is a community of bold, passionate entrepreneurs creating solutions for today’s biggest climate and environmental challenges. Located in Somerville, MA, and founded in 2011, Greentown Labs is the largest cleantech incubator in North America, operating a 100,000 sq. ft. campus comprised of prototyping and wet lab space, shared office space, a machine shop, electronics lab, and a curated suite of programs and resources. Greentown Labs is home to more than 100 startups and has supported more than 250 startups since its inception. These startups have collectively created more than 6,500 direct jobs and have raised more than $750 million in funding. The incubator’s mission is to provide entrepreneurs with the community, resources, and space they need to thrive. Learn more at www.greentownlabs.com or on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
KitchenTown
KitchenTown champions innovation in all its forms so we can drive positive change in our food system from the ground up.We play a critical role in the development, commercialization, and launch of impact driven and transformational food products.We are actively building a global community of food entrepreneurs and innovators to support each other and create a new sustainable food system.
ReFED
ReFED is a national nonprofit working to end food loss and waste across the food system by advancing data-driven solutions to the problem. ReFED leverages data and insights to highlight supply chain inefficiencies and economic opportunities; mobilizes and connects people to take targeted action; and catalyzes capital to spur innovation and scale high-impact initiatives. ReFED’s goal is a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive food system that optimizes environmental resources, minimizes climate impacts, and makes the best use of the food we grow. For more information, visit refed.com.
Scale for ClimateTech
Scale For ClimateTech reduces the risk, waste, and cost associated with getting a hardware product to market. This free program is designed for hardware entrepreneurs and companies developing products reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and looking to accelerate their manufacturing process from prototype to production. Cohort members receive a dedicated mentor, entry into the New York State hardware ecosystem with founder-friendly contract manufacturers, Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) assessments from industry experts, customized road map development, and introductions to strategic partnerships and investors to commercialize your technology in New York State and beyond. Scale For ClimateTech is supported by the New York State Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and is administered by non-profit entrepreneurship catalyst NextCorps and impact innovation company SecondMuse. The goal of For ClimateTech initiatives is to accelerate innovations likely to have substantial climate impacts for all, and limit greenhouse gas emissions to 40% of 1990 levels by 2030 as established by The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of New York State.
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.
Sustainability Partners
Natural Capital Partners
Natural Capital Partners, the leading experts on carbon neutrality and climate finance, works with more than 300 clients in 34 countries, including Microsoft, Logitech, Interface, HP and Nestle Waters, to deliver climate action solutions of the highest quality. Through a global network of projects which reduce carbon emissions, generate renewable energy, build resilience in supply chains, conserve and restore forests and biodiversity, and improve health and livelihoods, Natural Capital Partners’ clients are able to meet carbon neutrality and net zero targets. The CarbonNeutral Protocol, which is managed by Natural Capital Partners, provides a robust framework for clear, transparent and high quality carbon neutral action for businesses to achieve carbon neutrality, including CarbonNeutral® product certification.
One Tree Planted
One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees! They lead reforestation projects in North America, South America, Africa, and Asia by working with local communities and only native tree species that are grown in nearby nurseries. Each project focus is different, and can include forest fire restoration, agroforestry, watershed health, biodiversity, environmental disaster recovery, climate, and social impact. Many projects have overlapping objectives, creating a combination of benefits that contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Beyond such projects, One Tree Planted believes that truly engaging people who want to have a personal experience is critical to raising awareness through action. That's why they also organize volunteer events throughout the world in order to help get more hands in the dirt to help the planet! Learn more at https://onetreeplanted.org/.
rePurpose Global
rePurpose Global is pioneering the world's first end-to-end sustainability-as-a-service ecosystem that is dedicated to making social and environmental action accessible for anyone, anywhere. Through their leading Plastic Action Platform, they help people and companies calculate, reduce, and offset their plastic footprint while empowering grassroots innovators on the cutting edge of solving for our planet's future. To date, rePurpose Global has created systemic change for people across 26 countries and hundreds of purposeful brands worldwide. On behalf of their global coalition, the venture eliminates millions of pounds of plastic waste from nature every year, and in doing so, positively impacts the lives of 9,500+ marginalized waste workers and community members worldwide.
Bonneville Environmental Foundation
BEF sustainability products and services empower business to be in balance with offset products, environmental programs and custom solutions.