Sponsors
Premier Sponsor
Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
Supporting Sponsors
Neste
Neste is in the business of fighting climate change. Over the past 15 years, Neste has transformed from a local oil refiner to becoming a global leader in renewable and circular solutions. Today, Neste is a leading producer of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable feedstock solutions for various polymers and chemicals industry uses. In 2021, Neste employed about 4,900 employees and 90% of its profits came from renewable businesses.
Neste is committed to supporting customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 million tons annually by 2030. With production facilities in Finland, Singapore, and the Netherlands as well as a proposed Joint Venture to produce renewable diesel in the US, Neste is the only global renewable fuels producer that produces in three continents.
Bloom Energy
Bloom Energy empowers businesses and communities to responsibly take charge of their energy. Bloom Energy’s fuel-flexible Energy Servers can use hydrogen, biogas, natural gas, or a blend of fuels to create resilient, sustainable, and cost-predictable power at significantly higher efficiencies than traditional, combustion-based resources. Our enterprise customers include some of the largest multinational corporations around the world who turn to Bloom Energy as a trusted partner to deliver reliable, lower carbon energy today and a net-zero future.
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.
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.
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.
Contributing Sponsors
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 is the science-driven forest carbon marketplace delivering large-scale, immediate impact for the climate and communities. By using high integrity data to generate carbon credits that connect corporations to family forests, NCX is democratizing access to markets while enabling real climate action. Learn more at ncx.com.
Planetly
Planetly by OneTrust simplifies carbon accounting and ESG program management. Use the technology to understand, reduce and offset your emissions and operationalize the ESG metrics that are important to your organization and key stakeholders. Planetly enables your organization to analyze your and report ESG metrics in compliance with all relevant standards and drive initiatives across your organization to create sustainable competitive advantage. Planetly by OneTrust is a part of OneTrust, the #1 most widely used privacy, security and governance platform used by more than 12,000 customers and powered by 200 awarded patents. To learn more, visit Planetly.com.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. We’ve announced a set of new, longer-term climate goals to achieve net zero energy and beyond. We’re also committed to partnering with our customers, community organizations, and others to co-create plans towards an equitable and viable clean energy future that leaves no one behind. To learn more, visit www.pge.com/climate.
Watershed
Watershed is the enterprise climate platform. Leading companies like Walmart, Airbnb, Spotify, Klarna, and Twitter use our software to run end-to-end climate programs with quantifiable results. Watershed delivers granular, audit-grade carbon measurement; one-click disclosure and reporting; and real emissions reductions—all in a single, intuitive, enterprise-grade software platform. Watershed customers have access to our exclusive marketplace of scientifically vetted, high-additionality carbon removal projects and high-quality offsets; in-house climate and policy expertise; and ongoing support throughout their climate journey. Watershed’s advisors and investors include Mark Carney, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, Sequoia, and Kleiner Perkins. Watershed is based in San Francisco, Calif., and London, U.K. To learn more, visit watershed.com.
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 Inc. (NYSE:T) is a diversified, global leader in telecommunications, media and entertainment, and technology. Consumers and businesses have more than 225 million monthly subscriptions to our services. AT&T Communications provides more than 100 million U.S. consumers with entertainment and communications experiences across mobile and broadband. Plus, it serves high-speed, highly secure connectivity and smart solutions to nearly 3 million business customers. WarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content to global audiences through its consumer brands, including: HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros., TNT, TBS, truTV, CNN, DC Entertainment, New Line, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Turner Classic Movies. Xandr, now part of WarnerMedia, provides marketers with innovative and relevant advertising solutions for consumers around premium video content and digital advertising through its platform. AT&T Latin America provides pay-TV services across 10 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean and wireless services to consumers and businesses in Mexico.
AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc. Additional information is available at about.att.com. © 2021 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the Globe logo and other marks are trademarks and service marks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
Edison Energy
Edison Energy provides independent, global advisory solutions to help large corporate, industrial, and institutional clients better understand and navigate the choices, opportunities, and risks that will arise from the transition to a net zero future. As stakeholder expectations around corporate sustainability increase, Edison helps companies rise to this challenge by designing and implementing individualized strategies, projects, and programs across sustainability, renewables, transportation electrification, energy optimization, and energy supply. Edison Energy enables organizations to deliver on their strategic, financial, and sustainability goals by addressing today’s key energy challenges: carbon, cost, complexity, and creating energy justice across communities.
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.
Participating Sponsors
FORLIANCE
FORLIANCE GmbH develops, manages and certifies sustainable forest, agroforestry and integrated land use projects and integrates them into sustainability strategies with our clients to achieve their Net Zero Carbon targets. Together with international partners, FORLIANCE has been working in the fields of nature-based project development and voluntary carbon offsetting for 20 years. Our company’s purpose is to create decisive impact on climate and global well-being by connecting meaningful climate protection projects with inspiring businesses and impact investors.
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, Asia and Europe by working with local communities and a mix of native tree species. 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’s Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP) provides businesses, financial institutions, and governmental agencies the software fabric for managing their organization’s climate related data and performance with the same level of confidence as their financial reporting systems. The company’s software solutions enable users to calculate their carbon footprint, perform climate trajectory modeling aligned to temperature rise scenarios set forth by the Paris agreement, and benchmark their impact by region, sector, or peer groups.
NextCorps
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.
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.
Community Partners
Gold Standard
Gold Standard enables companies to meet climate targets and deliver sustainable development impact within and beyond their own corporate value chains. This includes by purchasing high-impact carbon credits that deliver quantified sustainable development benefits for compensation, neutralization or climate impact claims, to value chain interventions to address Scope 3 emissions and report against performance targets in line with the GHG Protocol and Science Based Targets, as well as collective action funds to help investors and companies deliver credible sustainable, climate and biodiversity impacts as well as future proof supply chains.
Gold Standard-certified projects have already contributed to 191 million tons of CO2e prevented from entering the atmosphere and created over $28 Billion in shared value for climate action and sustainable development. Established in 2003 by WWF and other international NGOs, with ISEAL Code Compliant status, and backed by a broad NGO Supporter Network, Gold Standard has 2,300+ projects underway in over 98 countries, creating billions of dollars of shared value from climate and development action worldwide.
Project Vesta
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.
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.
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.
Environmental Defense Fund
One of the world’s leading international nonprofit organizations, Environmental Defense Fund (edf.org) creates transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. To do so, EDF links science, economics, law, and innovative private-sector partnerships. With more than 3 million members and offices in the United States, China, Mexico, Indonesia and the European Union, EDF’s scientists, economists, attorneys and policy experts are working in 28 countries to turn our solutions into action. Connect with us on Twitter @EnvDefenseFund
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.
RMI
RMI is an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit organization of experts across disciplines working to accelerate the clean energy transition and improve lives. RMI decarbonizes energy systems through rapid, market-based change in the world’s most critical geographies to align with a 1.5°C future and address the climate crisis. We work with businesses, policymakers, communities and other organizations to identify and scale energy system interventions that will cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 50% by 2030. For 40 years, RMI has utilized our unique techno-economic expertise and whole-systems thinking to publish groundbreaking research and analysis. We bring together collaborations of rare reach, range and expertise—creating unconventional partnerships and mobilizing action to drive change on the massive scale needed to combat the climate crisis.
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. New Energy Nexus builds ecosystems and runs programs that are locally tailored to support the specific needs of entrepreneurs in that region: providing accelerator services, capital, mentoring, skills and networks to help clean energy entrepreneurs thrive. We know that getting the right resources to entrepreneurs at the right time will unlock the clean energy solutions the world needs to tackle climate change. Learn more at https://www.newenergynexus.com.
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.
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, Asia and Europe by working with local communities and a mix of native tree species. 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 leading Plastic Action Platform dedicated to reducing waste, reviving lives, and restoring nature's balance. Through its pioneering ecosystem of solutions that span across advisory, action, and advocacy, the organization helps people and companies calculate, reduce, and offset their plastic footprint, while empowering grassroots innovators on the cutting edge of solving for the planet's future. On behalf of its global coalition, the organization eliminates millions of pounds of plastic waste from nature every year, and in doing so, positively impacts the lives of 10,000+ marginalized waste workers and community members worldwide. Visit https://www.business.repurpose.global/ to join the movement.
Bonneville Environmental Foundation
BEF sustainability products and services empower business to be in balance with offset products, environmental programs and custom solutions.
Net Zero Partner
Watershed
Watershed is the enterprise climate platform. Leading companies like Walmart, Airbnb, Spotify, Klarna, and Twitter use our software to run end-to-end climate programs with quantifiable results. Watershed delivers granular, audit-grade carbon measurement; one-click disclosure and reporting; and real emissions reductions—all in a single, intuitive, enterprise-grade software platform. Watershed customers have access to our exclusive marketplace of scientifically vetted, high-additionality carbon removal projects and high-quality offsets; in-house climate and policy expertise; and ongoing support throughout their climate journey. Watershed’s advisors and investors include Mark Carney, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, Sequoia, and Kleiner Perkins. Watershed is based in San Francisco, Calif., and London, U.K. To learn more, visit watershed.com.