Sponsors
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/
Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises is dedicated to building a better future through our leading communications, automotive and media companies. Our major operating subsidiaries include Cox Communications and Cox Automotive, and we are strategically investing in new industries and emerging technologies, with sizeable interests in clean technology and health care. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Cox is a global company with nearly $20 billion in annual revenues and brands that include Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book and Cox Homelife. Founded in 1898 by Ohio Governor James M. Cox, the company is a family-owned business committed to its people, communities and planet. To learn more about Cox, visit coxenterprises.com or view our collective impact report at coxcsrreport.com.
Microsoft
Microsoft is accelerating progress toward a more sustainable future by reducing our environmental footprint, accelerating research, helping our customers build sustainable solutions and advocating for policies that benefit the environment. We are committed to being carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050, will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975.
To learn more about our progress to become a carbon negative, water positive, zero waste company by 2030 and to protect ecosystems by building a Planetary Computer, please read the Microsoft 2020 Environmental Sustainability Report.
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/
Supporting Sponsors
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/
Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises is dedicated to building a better future through our leading communications, automotive and media companies. Our major operating subsidiaries include Cox Communications and Cox Automotive, and we are strategically investing in new industries and emerging technologies, with sizeable interests in clean technology and health care. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Cox is a global company with nearly $20 billion in annual revenues and brands that include Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book and Cox Homelife. Founded in 1898 by Ohio Governor James M. Cox, the company is a family-owned business committed to its people, communities and planet. To learn more about Cox, visit coxenterprises.com or view our collective impact report at coxcsrreport.com.
Microsoft
Microsoft is accelerating progress toward a more sustainable future by reducing our environmental footprint, accelerating research, helping our customers build sustainable solutions and advocating for policies that benefit the environment. We are committed to being carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050, will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975.
To learn more about our progress to become a carbon negative, water positive, zero waste company by 2030 and to protect ecosystems by building a Planetary Computer, please read the Microsoft 2020 Environmental Sustainability Report.
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
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.
AT&T
AT&T is bringing it all together – helping people mobilize their worlds – with advanced mobile services, next-generation TV and high-speed internet services, and smart solutions for businesses. This connectivity is powering our economy. Increasingly, technology is helping create a better, more sustainable world – from connected cars and homes to smarter, more resilient energy grids, to tools that help businesses conserve scarce water resources. Our goal is to create a better, smarter, more connected future.
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.
ENGIE Impact
ENGIE Impact delivers sustainability solutions and services to corporations, cities and governments across the globe. Comprised of existing and proven ENGIE Group portfolio businesses, ENGIE Impact brings together a wide range of strategic and technical capabilities, to provide a comprehensive offer to support clients in tackling their complex sustainability challenges from strategy to execution. ENGIE Impact, is part of the ENGIE Group, a global leader in the zero-carbon transition. Learn more at www.engieimpact.com.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The Firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of customers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
Native
Native, a Certified B Corporation and public benefit corporation, works with leading global brands including allbirds, Aveda, Ben & Jerry's, Clif Bar, Keurig Dr Pepper, and Salesforce to catalyze greater climate action. For more than 20 years, we have built, verified, and certified over 80 high impact projects in carbon removal and soil sequestration, regenerative agriculture, methane capture, and community-scale renewable energy that reduce emissions, strengthen supply chains, improve community livelihoods and health and well-being, and protect and enhance biodiversity. Through our innovative Help BuildTM financing model, we enable new climate actions and community-based project opportunities left behind by the voluntary carbon market to accelerate the zero carbon transition. We invite you to read about our latest regenerative agriculture initiative with wool growers, learn more about our work at https://native.eco/ and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.
NCX
NCX's Natural Capital Exchange enables you to offset your carbon footprint by supercharging the growth of America's forests. Giving carbon credit buyers the opportunity to directly pay landowners to grow their trees longer, creating older, more carbon-rich forests. In partnership with Microsoft AI for Earth, NCX forest data scientists developed the first high-resolution forest map of every acre of America. This data is used to optimize carbon payments to create real, immediate, scalable, and efficient climate impact with landowners in your state and your supply chain. Learn more at ncx.com.
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 7,500 customers and powered by 130 awarded patents. OneTrust ESG is powered by the OneTrust Athena™ AI and robotic automation engine, and integrates seamlessly with the full OneTrust platform, including OneTrust Privacy Management Software, OneTrust DataDiscovery™, OneTrust DataGovernance™, OneTrust Vendorpedia™, OneTrust GRC, OneTrust Ethics, OneTrust PreferenceChoice™, and OneTrust DataGuidance™.
To learn more, visit OneTrust.com or connect on LinkedIn.
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.
Participating Sponsors
Longevity Partners
Operating in 38 countries for more than 100 institutional investors across all asset classes, Longevity Partners provides all services required to future-proof property investment portfolios. From carbon foot-printing to climate risk and ESG strategy development and implementation, our experts provide all the tools to respond to ESG performance requirements from pension funds and asset owners. Longevity works hand-in-hand with real estate owners to position their assets for the demands of tomorrow, while improving the well-being of users and net operating income today.
The company advises on anticipated legislation and designates achievable benchmarks for companies to improve ESG and outperform their competitors. Asset managers must be aware of how they can optimise their assets’ resiliency to extreme weather events, better manage regulatory risks and improve the quality of their products over time to respond to client demand.
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.
Community Partners
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund (business.edf.org), a leading international nonprofit organization, creates transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. EDF links science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships. Connect with us on our EDF+Business blog, Twitter and the Supply Chain Solutions Center.
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.
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. sustainabilityconsortium.org
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.
Mission Possible Partnership
The Mission Possible Partnership is the command center for an ambitious effort to trigger a net-zero transformation of these seven industrial sectors, leveraging the convening power, talent, and expertise of world-leading organizations on climate action. Our goal is to propel a committed community of CEOs from carbon-intensive industries, together with their financiers, customers and suppliers, to agree—and more importantly, to act—on the essential decisions required for decarbonizing industry and transport in this decade.
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
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.
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.
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.
Sustainability Partners
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 the World's First Plastic Credit Platform dedicated to making planetary action delightfully accessible for purposeful people and companies of any size, anywhere. Its one-stop solution platform empowers anybody to take meaningful environmental action and go Plastic Neutral by financing innovators on the frontlines of fighting for our planet's future. Since inception, the venture has created environmental impact for people across 26 countries and 100+ purposeful brands, and in doing so, it is eliminating 2.5 million pounds of plastic waste every year and positively impacting the lives of 9,500 waste workers and marginalized 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.