Sponsors
Foundational Sponsor
Amazon
Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, committing to reach net-zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. The Pledge now has more than 300 signatories, including Best Buy, IBM, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Siemens, Unilever, Verizon, and Visa. To reach its goal, Amazon will continue to reduce emissions across its operations by taking real business actions and establishing a path to power its operations with 100% renewable energy, five years ahead of the company’s original target of 2030. Amazon is also delivering on its Shipment Zero vision to make all Amazon shipments net-zero carbon, with 50% net-zero carbon by 2030, and purchasing 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, the largest order ever of electric delivery vehicles. The company is also investing $2 billion in the development of decarbonizing services and solutions through the Climate Pledge Fund. Learn more about The Climate Pledge and Amazon’s sustainability efforts.
Premier Sponsors
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance. With approximately 262,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States.
Wells Fargo has committed to work throughout its value chain -- products and services, operations and culture, and strategic philanthropy -- to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. In 2018 the company committed to provide $200 billion in financing to sustainable businesses and projects by 2030 with more than 50 percent focused on renewable energy, clean technology and green-building transactions that directly support the transition to a low-carbon future. Additional news, insights and perspectives are available at https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/corporate-responsibility/environment/ and Wells Fargo Stories.
Supporting Sponsors
AMPLY Power
AMPLY Power is a comprehensive electric vehicle charging and energy management provider for fleets operating trucks, buses, vans and light-duty vehicles. Our intelligent charge management software, OMEGA™, optimizes charging for lowest cost energy, while offering improved resilience and reliability, all in a user-friendly dashboard. OMEGA leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide everything a fleet operator needs to effectively manage and optimize their EVs. Paired with our Charging-as-a-Service model, our vehicle and charger agnostic approach allows us to handle all the details of charging a fleet’s EVs, guaranteeing performance and dramatically reducing upfront capital. By bundling CapEx, OpEx, and energy into a fixed rate, fleet operators are able to forecast and manage costs long-term. Learn more at www.AMPLYpower.com.
DevvESG
DevvESG creates products that reduce risk by bringing trust, transparency and simplicity to the ESG space. Using a guided methodology known as AIR, our products help organizations navigate three distinct stages in their ESG journey—Analyze, Improve and Report (AIR). Calculate your current risk profile including your carbon footprint and ESG score in the Analyze phase, connect to groundbreaking projects and purchase high-quality offset credits in the Improve phase, and fulfill mandatory disclosure requirements in the Report phase, with complete data security and provenance guaranteed by the only ISO-compliant green blockchain in existence. The result? A better baseline analysis of your current ESG performance, better guidance on how to make improvements, better tools to share progress, and better access to authenticated datasets for companies, cities, investors, and more. Join us at www.DevvESG.com.
HP Inc.
HP Inc. is a technology company that believes one thoughtful idea has the power to change the world. Its product and service portfolio of personal systems, printers, and 3D printing solutions helps bring these ideas to life. As part of its Sustainable Impact strategy, HP is taking bold steps to drive climate action, protect human rights and accelerate digital equity, striving for some of the most comprehensive goals in the IT industry. Learn more at www.hp.com/sustainableimpact.
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.
Trane Technologies
Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator that brings efficient and sustainable climate solutions to buildings, homes and transportation through its strategic brands Trane® and Thermo King®, and its portfolio of environmental products and services. The company develops solutions for big sustainability challenges while bringing heating, cooling and refrigerated food, medicine, vaccines and perishables to people around the world. Trane Technologies’ bold 2030 Sustainability Commitments are central to its business strategy and include a pledge to reduce customers’ carbon emissions by one gigaton (2% of the world’s annual emissions) and to achieve carbon-neutral operations. These commitments extend to communities with significant investments in education and workforce development, housing and comfort, and food and wellness. Learn more at www.tranetechnologies.com.
Contributing Sponsors
American Forest Foundation
The American Forest Foundation (AFF) is a national conservation organization that focuses on private and family-owned U.S. forests, empowering their owners to protect and improve the clean water, wildlife habitat, carbon storage, and sustainable wood supplies that come from these lands. AFF partners with companies who use or place a high value on forests for their business, to deliver measurable positive conservation impact. Using its experience and understanding of family forest owners, and its vast network of partners, AFF develops innovative solutions that help companies meet their environmental and sustainability goals and provide support to family forest owners in caring for their land. Learn more at www.forestfoundation.org.
Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is a global leader in sustainable infrastructure solutions. We provide the expert consulting, engineering, technology, and construction capabilities needed to propel our world into a sustainable future. Wherever you are along your journey, from planning through deployment at scale, Black & Veatch has the expertise to help your organization achieve your sustainability and decarbonization goals. Together, we are "building a world of difference." For more information, visit https://www.bv.com/sustainability.
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.
EcoVadis
EcoVadis is the world's most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings. Global supply chains, financial institutions and public organizations rely on EcoVadis to monitor and improve the sustainability performance of their business and trading partners. Backed by a powerful technology platform, EcoVadis’ evidence-based ratings are validated by a global team of experts, and are adapted to more than 200 industry categories, 160 countries, and companies of all sizes. Its actionable scorecards provide benchmarks, insights, and a guided improvement journey for environmental, social and ethical practices. Industry leaders such as Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Unilever, LVMH, Salesforce, Bridgestone, BASF, and ING Group are among the 85,000 businesses that collaborate with EcoVadis to drive resilience, sustainable growth and positive impact worldwide. Learn more on ecovadis.com.
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.
Orsted
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).
Vanguard Renewables
Participating Sponsors
Equilibrium
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Take charge of your impact on people and planet
Create, control, and communicate your ESG360TM story through Equilibrium, a holistic, sustainability data management solution. Go beyond a spreadsheet-based, checkbox approach to take charge of your ESG performance through cutting-edge AI technology, insights, and strategic advisory to drive decisions. Enhance stakeholder relations by measuring, benchmarking, and reporting your success across areas such as carbon accounting, DEI commitments, and regulatory compliance. Learn more at eqm.ai.
Fill it Forward
At Fill it Forward we create reusable products, interactive technologies and global giving initiatives that inspire the world to reuse. We believe choosing to reuse is a simple act of generosity that shows love for our planet and the people on it. Together with 300+ organizations we have funded hundreds of clean water projects and diverted millions of single-use bottles and paper cups from our landfills and oceans. Learn more at www.fillitforward.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Scale Microgrid
Convening Partners
U.S. Green Building Council Los Angeles (USGBC-LA)
Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA)
The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) is a membership association for energy customers seeking to procure clean energy across the U.S. Today, our membership of nearly 300 includes stakeholders from across the commercial and industrial sector, non-profit organizations, as well as energy providers and service providers. Learn more at https://cebuyers.org
Plug and Play
Plug and Play is a global innovation platform. We connect startups to corporations, and invest in over 100 companies every year.
Community Partners
Alliance to Save Energy
The Alliance to Save Energy is a nonprofit organization that promotes energy efficiency worldwide through research, education and advocacy. We encourage business, government, environmental and consumer leaders to use energy efficiency as a means to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment and greater energy security. We work with a variety of people and groups to: Prove that business can be efficient and make money at the same time. Educate consumers about the impact of energy choices – especially on their wallets
Antenna
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.
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.
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.
EVNoire
EVNoire is an award-winning consulting group whose work centers around e-mobility and equity best practices. EVNoire works with everyone from local governments and transit agencies to utilities, auto manufacturers and university partners, to help inform their transportation electrification strategies, including EVs but also electric buses, electric bikes and more.
We have collected many years’ worth of data from working with diverse and frontline communities. We use that data to inform our work, and offer evidence-based strategies for engaging with the general market and diverse audiences about e-mobility in an equitable way. Our work spans many aspects of e-mobility and equity, including climate justice, workforce development, public health, multimodal mobility and creative financing of e-mobility solutions.
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.
Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC)
Center for Resource Solutions (CRS)
Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) creates policy and market solutions to advance sustainable energy.
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.
Verra
Verra is a global leader helping to tackle the world’s most intractable environmental and social challenges by developing and managing standards that help the private sector, countries, and civil society achieve ambitious sustainable development and climate action goals.
Verra’s global standards and frameworks serve as linchpins for channeling finance towards high-impact activities that tackle some of the most pressing environmental issues of our day.
Sustain SoCal
Sustain Southern California (Sustain SoCal) accelerates cleantech economic growth and sustainability initiatives through innovation, collaboration and education in Southern California.
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.
3BL Media
Founded in 2009, 3BL Media is a leading news distribution and content marketing company focused on niche topics including sustainability, health, energy, education, philanthropy, community and other social and environmental topics. 3BL Media’s unrivaled content distribution platforms and Brand Studio promote the environmental, social, governance (ESG) initiatives of leading companies, nonprofits and NGOs. Learn more at 3blmedia.com
Greener By Default
Greener by Default applies behavioral economics research to food policy, empowering institutions to serve inclusive, sustainable plant-forward food.
Circular Carbon Network
The Circular Carbon Network is a non-profit initiative that connects the global community of leaders working to transform waste CO2 into a valuable asset for society. Our core mission is to catalyze more investment and commercial activity in this important emerging sector to help accelerate its growth and realize its full, economic and climate potential.
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.
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.
Accelerate Partners
NREL
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is transforming energy through research, development, commercialization, and deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
OpenGrants
OpenGrants is a grant search engine and marketplace of grant experts for startups, nonprofits, and small business. You can find grants on your own, or hire an expert to help you search, apply for, and manage your grant.
On Deck
On Deck helps people start companies, find their next role, and invest in their careers. Our programs are where top talent comes to accelerate their ideas and careers, surrounded by a world-class community. On Deck Climate Tech exists within On Deck, and is focused specifically on catalyzing early stage climate tech entrepreneurship. We run Build for Climate, an 8-week build sprint that helps aspiring climate tech founders turn an idea into a company.
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.
Greentown Labs
Greentown Labs is a community of climate action pioneers working to design a more sustainable world. As the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, Greentown Labs brings together startups, corporates, investors, policymakers, and many others with a focus on scaling climate solutions. Driven by the mission of providing startups the resources, knowledge, connections, and equipment they need to thrive, Greentown Labs offers lab space, shared office space, a machine shop, an electronics lab, software and business resources, and a large network of corporate customers, investors, and more. With its headquarters in Somerville, Mass. and a recently opened incubator in Houston, TX, Greentown Labs is home to more than 180 startups and has supported more than 400 startups since the incubator’s founding in 2011. These startups have collectively created more than 8,400 jobs and have raised more than $2.2 billion in funding.
Climate Tech Cocktails
Climate Tech Cocktails (CTC) is a burgeoning community of climate tech founders, workers, investors, researchers and ecosystem partners. CTC consists of a podcast, in-person happy hours, a digital community (2022) and rolling fund (2022). Learn more at https://www.climatetechcocktails.com/
Clean Energy Ventures
At Clean Energy Ventures we’re beating back climate change through energy innovation. We fund disruptive, capital-light technologies and business model innovations that can reshape how we produce and consume energy. Each startup we invest in has the potential to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions between our investment and 2050.
Gener8tor
We are a nationally-ranked accelerator that brings together startup founders, investors, corporations, job seekers, universities, musicians and artists. The gener8tor platform includes more than 75 programs spanning startup accelerators, corporate programming, speaker series, conferences, skills accelerators and fellowships. gener8tor believes that everyone deserves opportunities, regardless of race, place or gender. And that is what we consider our mission.
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.
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/.
Past Sponsors
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.