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
Adobe
Adobe gives everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transforming how companies interact with their customers across every screen. Learn more at http://www.adobe.com.
General Motors
Over the last 100-plus years, General Motors has been at the forefront of the automotive revolution. Today, we’re a leader in a new transformation, one that will create a safer and smarter world, and our vision for a future with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion drives every decision we make. Why? It’s the right move for our customers, our employees and future generations. Learn more at gm.com.
Salesforce
Salesforce is the world’s #1 customer relationship management (CRM) platform. At Salesforce, we consider the environment to be a key stakeholder and we are committed to harnessing our culture of innovation to improve the state of the world. We leverage the power of our people and our products to reduce the impact that we and our customers have on the planet. Salesforce achieved net-zero greenhouse gas emissions globally and delivers customers a carbon neutral cloud. Learn more at http://salesforce.com/sustainability
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a leading financial services company that has approximately $1.9 trillion in assets, proudly serves one in three U.S. households and more than 10% of small businesses in the U.S., and is a leading middle market banking provider in the U.S. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 37 on Fortune’s 2021 rankings of America’s largest corporations. In the communities we serve, the company focuses its social impact on building a sustainable, inclusive future for all by supporting housing affordability, small business growth, financial health, and a low-carbon economy. News, insights, and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories.
Supporting Sponsors
AES
The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) is a Fortune 500 global power company accelerating the future of energy. Together with our many stakeholders, we're improving lives by delivering the greener, smarter energy solutions the world needs. Our diverse workforce is committed to continuous innovation and operational excellence, while partnering with our customers on their strategic energy transitions and continuing to meet their energy needs today. Learn more at aes.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OneTrust
As society redefines risk and opportunity, OneTrust empowers tomorrow’s leaders to succeed through trust and impact with the Trust Intelligence Platform. The market-defining Trust Intelligence Platform from OneTrust connects privacy, GRC, ethics, and ESG teams, data, and processes, so all companies can collaborate seamlessly and put trust at the center of their operations and culture by unlocking their value and potential to thrive by doing what’s good for people and the planet. Learn more at OneTrust.com.
Pachama
Pachama is a technology company on a mission to restore nature to solve climate change. Harnessing the latest advancements in satellite imagery, remote sensing and machine learning, Pachama estimates the carbon stored in our forests and monitors forest growth over time. By introducing a new standard of quality to carbon markets, Pachama connects responsible companies with technology-verified carbon credits from the world’s highest quality forest restoration projects.
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.
We Don't Have Time
We Don’t Have Time is a movement and a tech startup that leverages the power of social media to hold leaders and companies accountable for climate change. The founders and backers of We Don't Have Time are ordinary people with various backgrounds and experiences. Aware, but not experts in this field, our lowest common denominator is that all of us at some point in life “woke up” and started to worry and learn about the Earth’s health. We each took a decision: “I will no longer be passive and just watch. If I don’t do anything, who will do it for me?” That was the seed for We Don't Have Time. And it’s our shared belief, motivation and ambition.
Contributing Sponsors
LEAF Coalition
Emergent was created to urgently address the climate and biodiversity crises by incentivizing reductions in deforestation to maximize climate, ecosystem, and sustainable development benefits. As a non-profit intermediary, Emergent engages between tropical forest countries and the private sector—creating a new marketplace in large-scale transactions of high-integrity carbon credits at the jurisdictional level. To accelerate public-private support for tropical forests, Emergent launched The Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance (LEAF) Coalition with the goal to halt deforestation by 2030. LEAF currently includes more than 20 public-private participants. In its first year (2021), the Coalition mobilized $1bn in financing, kicking off the largest-ever public-private effort to protect tropical forests. https://www.emergentclimate.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.
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.
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.
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.
Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. A pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be the world’s largest independent biotechnology company, reaching millions of patients around the world and developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential. Amgen is one of the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average, is part of the Nasdaq-100 index, and in 2021, Amgen was named one of the 25 World’s Best Workplaces™ by Fortune and Great Place to Work™ and one of the 100 most sustainable companies in the world by Barron’s.
Neste
Neste is the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, and renewable feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals industry uses - and developing chemical recycling to combat plastic waste pollution. The company produces renewable products in Finland, the Netherlands and Singapore with a current annual nameplate capacity of 3.3mt. In early 2023, the capacity will increase to 4.5mt. In 2021, 92% of the renewable raw material inputs globally were waste and residues. Last year, Neste’s renewable and circular solutions helped customers reduce GHG emissions by 10.9mt. The company aims at increasing this figure to 20mt annually by 2030. Neste has consistently been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies. In 2021, Neste's revenue stood at EUR 15.1bn. Read more: https://bit.ly/3IZKm0W
Arbor Day Foundation
The Arbor Day Foundation uses trees to solve the most pressing global issues we face today. As we enter our 50th year, we’re more committed than ever to fulfilling our vision and empowering our Corporate Partners to achieve their ESG goals through the meaningful, measurable work we do. Together with our global network, we’ve planted over 500 million trees in more than 50 countries since 1972. For more information, visit www.arborday.org/partnerships.
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.
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, renewable hydrogen and green fuels facilities, and bioenergy plants. Moreover, Ørsted provides energy products to its customers. Ørsted is the only energy company in the world with a science-based net-zero emissions target as validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), and Ørsted aims to deliver a net-positive biodiversity impact from all new renewable energy projects it commissions from 2030 at the latest. Ørsted ranks as the world’s most sustainable energy company in Corporate Knights' 2022 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. Find out more at www.orsted.com
Carbon XPrizes
XPRIZE is the world-recognized leader in designing and operating large-scale incentive prize competitions. The XPRIZE Foundation stands out for its audacious prizes, the leveraged impact its prizes produce, and the organization’s superior ability to execute operationally complex field trials and measure success. XPRIZE competitions reward teams for performance, not potential. Leveraging the expertise and knowledge of its deep bench of advisors and judges, XPRIZE competitions catalyze entire markets by incentivizing entrepreneurship, and radical innovation.
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.
ChargeNet Stations
ChargeNet Stations is building the electric vehicle charging solution of the future. As more electric vehicles hit the road, our mission is to develop a charging experience that delivers low-cost renewable charging to quick-serve restaurant customers while providing much-needed reliability to the grid, all while providing a clean, super-friendly user experience. Our cloud-based software optimizes and stacks solar, storage, and charging into one consolidated solution that can be seamlessly integrated into retail and restaurant point-of-sale systems. By further utilizing consumer data, we optimize customer electric vehicle charging, allowing for increased operational efficiency and station utilization.
PwC
PwC is a community of solvers coming together in unexpected ways to build trust in society and solve important problems. Our clients are at the core of everything we do and we are committed to their success. To help our clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes, PwC provides professional services across two segments: Trust Solutions and Consulting Solutions. Within these segments we bring a range of capabilities to help organizations solve faster, solve more and realize more value. These capabilities include ESG: we work together with you to make the right choices to position your company for a sustainable tomorrow.
ClearTrace
ClearTrace is an energy data and carbon accounting platform providing companies with the digital infrastructure to mitigate environmental risk, prove their climate achievements and create new market opportunities within the evolving energy landscape. Through an advanced software platform developed by experts in the energy, data and banking sectors, ClearTrace delivers 100% traceable and verifiable energy and carbon records for its clients. For more information, visit https://cleartrace.io/.
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.
ClimateTrade
ClimateTrade is a blockchain-based climate pioneer, aiming to empower large-scale decarbonization through constant innovation. The ClimateTrade marketplace allows companies to offset their climate impact transparently and efficiently by purchasing carbon, plastic and biodiversity offsets, as well as renewable energy certificates or iRECs directly from more than 60 certified projects in over 20 countries all aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Blockchain technology brings unique added value by guaranteeing full transparency, traceability, speed and lower costs for all transactions, while delivering a groundbreaking user experience.
The ClimateTrade API, Widget and Whitelabel allow clients to integrate marketplace functionalities into their own platform, automatically calculating the carbon footprint of a product or service and giving customers the option to offset it at or after check-out. https://climatetrade.com/
Tritium
Founded in 2001, Tritium (NASDAQ: DCFC; DCFCW) designs and manufactures proprietary hardware and software to create advanced and reliable DC fast chargers for electric vehicles. Tritium’s compact and robust chargers are designed to look great on Main Street and thrive in harsh conditions, through technology engineered to be easy to install, own, and use. Tritium is focused on continuous innovation in support of our customers around the world. For more information, visit tritiumcharging.com.
Climateworks Foundation
Vanguard Renewables
CustomerFirst Renewables
CustomerFirst Renewables (CFR) is a global climate adviser dedicated to helping clients navigate complexity and take ambitious steps on their climate journey. CFR provides deep market insight, analytical problem-solving, and change management expertise so that clients can switch to renewable energy and make progress on other large-scale climate and water resiliency commitments with confidence and internal alignment. Founded in 2010 as one of the first renewable energy advisory services firms in North America solely focused on large energy end-users, CFR has a long and proven track record advising leading brands and global organizations with distributed energy footprints. Clients turn to CFR at all stages of their journey, from strategy development to competitive procurement and implementation to performance management. Learn more at customerfirstrenewables.com.
Watershed
Watershed is a leading climate software platform, whose mission is to help decarbonize the global economy by giving companies the tools and services they need to take meaningful action on their greenhouse gas emissions. The platform empowers businesses to measure and analyze their complete carbon footprint, take action to reduce and remove those emissions, and report on progress to stakeholders and regulators. Watershed helps companies like Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Twitter, and Spotify turn their net zero ambitions into reality, fast. Watershed is backed by Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Al Gore, and their advisors include Mark Carney (founder of TCFD and GFANZ) and Christiana Figueres (architect of the Paris Climate Agreement).
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.
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 a purpose-led company whose mission is to provide the world's most trusted business sustainability ratings. Businesses of all sizes rely on EcoVadis’ expert intelligence and evidence-based ratings to monitor and improve the sustainability performance of their business and trading partners. Its actionable scorecards, benchmarks, carbon action tools, and insights guide an improvement journey for environmental, social and ethical practices across 200 industry categories and 175 countries. Industry leaders such as Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Unilever, LVMH, Bridgestone, BASF and JPMorgan are among the 95,000 businesses that collaborate with EcoVadis to drive resilience, sustainable growth and positive impact worldwide. Learn more on ecovadis.com
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.
IBM
IBM is the global leader in business transformation through an open hybrid cloud platform and AI, serving clients in more than 170 countries around the world. Today 47 of the Fortune 50 Companies rely on the IBM Cloud to run their business, and IBM Watson enterprise AI is hard at work in more than 30,000 engagements. IBM is also one of the world’s most vital corporate research organizations, with 28 consecutive years of patent leadership. Above all, guided by principles for trust and transparency and support for a more inclusive society, IBM is committed to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. For more information about IBM visit: www.ibm.com.
Participating Sponsors
Ameresco
Founded in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading independent clean technology integrator and renewable asset developer, owner and operator. Our comprehensive portfolio includes energy efficiency, infrastructure upgrades, asset sustainability and renewable energy solutions throughout North America and Europe. Ameresco’s sustainability services include upgrades to a facility’s energy infrastructure and the development, construction and operation of renewable energy plants. Leveraging budget neutral solutions — including energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs), power purchase agreements (PPAs) and off-balance sheet Energy as a Service (EaaS) contracts — we eliminate the financial barriers that traditionally hamper energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Ameresco has successfully completed energy saving, environmentally responsible projects with Federal, state and local governments, K12 school districts, college campuses, healthcare institutions, airports, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers.
Center for Resource Solutions (CRS)
For 25 years, the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) has created policy and market solutions to advance sustainable energy. To this mission, CRS administers the Green-e® certification program, the leading certification program for high-quality and third-party verified renewable energy, carbon offsets and biomethane products in the voluntary market. Businesses and brands also show their leadership in the program, with participants including Bank of America, Procter & Gamble and Garden of Life. Additionally, CRS recently launched the Clean Energy Accounting Project (CEAP), to develop standardized, stakeholder-reviewed clean energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting guidance addressing outstanding questions in voluntary and regulatory markets.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of our communities. Through collaboration, providing resources and building technology, our mission is to help build a more inclusive, just and healthy future for everyone. We’re helping address climate change through venture investments, grants, and more. We’re proud to support organizations developing innovative and equitable approaches to mitigating climate change, including carbon dioxide removal. For more information, please visit www.chanzuckerberg.com.
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.
Equilibrium
About Equilibrium, a FiscalNote company - 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.
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/.
Grassroots Carbon
Kvarøy Arctic
Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2022, Kvarøy Arctic is a sustainable, third-generation family-owned salmon farm based in the Arctic Circle in Norway. For over 44 years, they have been committed to providing delicious, Fair Trade Certified salmon, without compromising either the environment or the welfare of the fish. Complete responsibility, innovative aquaculture practices, transparency, and traceability are their core values. They are an open book telling you exactly how they sustainably farm their salmon, what's in the diet, how they harvest them, and the transportation routes that bring them to you. Their salmon are not only raised in a way that is most healthful for the fish, but for the planet and the world’s waters too! You can find them at www.kvaroyarctic.com
LevelTen Energy
LevelTen Energy provides renewable transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the clean energy economy. Visit LevelTenEnergy.com to learn more.
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/.
PowerFlex
Pure Strategies
Pure Strategies is a sustainability consulting firm empowering brands and retailers to realize meaningful environmental and social improvement. Founded in 1998, our team of experts has provided customized sustainability solutions to help our clients build sustainability strategies and programs, set sustainability goals, create sustainable supply chains, and optimize products and sustainable packaging.
Scale Microgrid
Scale is a vertically integrated distributed energy platform, with a core focus of designing, building, financing, owning and operating cutting-edge distributed energy assets that offer cheaper, cleaner, and more resilient power. Their team of energy and financing experts accelerate growth in distributed energy projects by providing financing to technology providers, energy developers, and OEMs, while also directly helping large energy-consuming customers to take charge of their energy infrastructure and future-proof their businesses.
Smart Rain
Smart Rain believes in adding true value to our customer’s properties through our unique and revolutionary ideas. Smart Rain’s Smart Irrigation Controller is one of the most sophisticated and technically advanced controllers on the market today. SMART RAIN SMARTCONTROLLER™ COMES WITH: 7-inch full-color touchscreen display, Remote access, 48 zones capability, Multiple flow sensors, and master valve capability, Moisture & Rain sensor capability, EPA WaterSense Certified, and Lifetime Warranty. There’s no better way to monitor and manage your water usage than with Smart Rain’s SmartController and our three smart water sensors. You’ll save money while being proactive about caring for the environment in a time of severe drought.
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Startup Sponsors
International Biochar Initiative
The International Biochar Initiative (IBI) provides a global platform for fostering stakeholder collaboration, good industry practices, and environmental and ethical standards to support biochar systems that are safe and economically viable. Biochar provides a ready-to-deploy, nature-based carbon removal means with co-benefits for agriculture, storm water management, and carbon negative building materials, among other uses. IBI is made up of more than 500 members based in 60 countries – learn more and join the biochar movement: www.biochar-international.org
Patch
Patch is a platform for negative emissions. It integrates with businesses to calculate their carbon footprint and systematically compensates by funding verified carbon removal projects. Whether 1 kilogram or 1000 tonnes of carbon-dioxide, Patch helps automate sustainability goals with just a few lines of code. Our API gives developers the opportunity to leverage data already captured to neutralize their carbon impact via a diverse selection of carbon sequestration projects. Learn more at https://www.usepatch.com.
Convening Partners
U.S. Green Building Council Los Angeles (USGBC-LA)
USGBC-LA is about people – Passionate, practical, and informed professionals and advocates who work together to transform Southern California into a more sustainable region for all. USGBC-LA is the best place for anyone to learn the “why”, “who” and “how” of living sustainably, because business as usual is no longer an option. Our members and volunteers believe in creating a more sustainable built environment through education, innovation, and impactful action.
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 the leading innovation platform, connecting startups, corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we're present in 35+ locations across 5 continents. We offer corporate innovation programs and help our corporate partners in every stage of their innovation journey, from education to execution. We also organize startup acceleration programs and have built an in-house VC to drive innovation across multiple industries where we've invested in hundreds of successful companies including Dropbox, Guardant Health, Honey, Lending Club, N26, PayPal, and Rappi.
Cleantech Open
The Cleantech Open is a non-profit organization that runs the world’s largest accelerator for cleantech startups. Our mission is to find, fund and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental and economic challenges. Since our founding in 2005 in Silicon Valley and Boston, we have expanded to 33 countries, have worked with over 700 companies, nearly half of which have been successful in raising external capital now totaling over $800 million. Learn more at http://www.cleantechopen.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/.
Canadian Technology Accelerator
The Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) can give your firm a head start in a foreign market. CTA programs are located in major tech hubs and support firms in a wide range of technology sectors. Each CTA program focuses on helping businesses take advantage of what the local market has to offer.
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.
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/
Advanced Energy group
IDEO
IDEO is a global design company. We believe a better future is for all of us to design. We are a community of designers, entrepreneurs, engineers, teachers, researchers, and more. Our shared values and beliefs influence the work that we do, and the impact we hope to achieve.
Ceres
Community Partners
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
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.
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.
Greener By Default
Greener by Default applies behavioral economics research to food policy, empowering institutions to serve inclusive, sustainable plant-forward food.
RMI
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 https://www.newenergynexus.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.
Pique Action
A public benefit company with a mission to fight climate change with viral storytelling. We are the opposite of doom scrolling. We make micro-documentaries on big climate solutions.
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
Capitals Coalition
The Capitals Coalition unites the Natural Capital Coalition and the Social & Human Capital Coalition to transform the way decisions are made by including the value provided by nature, people & society.
Antenna
Business For Nature
Business for Nature is a global coalition that brings together business and conservation organizations and forward-thinking companies. Together, we demonstrate and amplify a credible business voice on nature calling for governments to adopt policies to reverse nature loss in this decade.
We work with more than 70 international and national partners and a diverse group of businesses from all sectors, sizes and geographies. We encourage companies to commit and act to reverse nature loss, and advocate for greater policy ambition. Our Strategic Advisory Group ensures our work is grounded in real business and act as ambassadors for the coalition.
Our work is made possible by the generous funding from the European Commission, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (via the World Economic Forum’s Nature Action Agenda), the MAVA Foundation and Porticus. Business for Nature is hosted at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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.
CharIN
CharIN is the leading global association with over 280 members dedicated to promote interoperability based on the Combined Charging System (CCS) as the global standard for charging vehicles of all kinds.
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.
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
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)
For 25 years, the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) has created policy and market solutions to advance sustainable energy. To this mission, CRS administers the Green-e® certification program, the leading certification program for high-quality and third-party verified renewable energy, carbon offsets and biomethane products in the voluntary market. Businesses and brands also show their leadership in the program, with participants including Bank of America, Procter & Gamble and Garden of Life. Additionally, CRS recently launched the Clean Energy Accounting Project (CEAP), to develop standardized, stakeholder-reviewed clean energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting guidance addressing outstanding questions in voluntary and regulatory 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.
Accelerate Partners
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.
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.
Unreasonable Group
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.
Startup Basecamp
Startup Basecamp launched a membership based community platform for founders, experts and investors around the world who are seeking to contribute to the fight against climate change.
Climate Capital
Media Partners
We Don't Have Time
We Don’t Have Time is a movement and a tech startup that leverages the power of social media to hold leaders and companies accountable for climate change. The founders and backers of We Don't Have Time are ordinary people with various backgrounds and experiences. Aware, but not experts in this field, our lowest common denominator is that all of us at some point in life “woke up” and started to worry and learn about the Earth’s health. We each took a decision: “I will no longer be passive and just watch. If I don’t do anything, who will do it for me?” That was the seed for We Don't Have Time. And it’s our shared belief, motivation and ambition.
Past Sponsors
Adobe
Adobe gives everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transforming how companies interact with their customers across every screen. Learn more at http://www.adobe.com.
General Motors
Over the last 100-plus years, General Motors has been at the forefront of the automotive revolution. Today, we’re a leader in a new transformation, one that will create a safer and smarter world, and our vision for a future with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion drives every decision we make. Why? It’s the right move for our customers, our employees and future generations. Learn more at gm.com.
Salesforce
Salesforce is the world’s #1 customer relationship management (CRM) platform. At Salesforce, we consider the environment to be a key stakeholder and we are committed to harnessing our culture of innovation to improve the state of the world. We leverage the power of our people and our products to reduce the impact that we and our customers have on the planet. Salesforce achieved net-zero greenhouse gas emissions globally and delivers customers a carbon neutral cloud. Learn more at http://salesforce.com/sustainability
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a leading financial services company that has approximately $1.9 trillion in assets, proudly serves one in three U.S. households and more than 10% of small businesses in the U.S., and is a leading middle market banking provider in the U.S. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 37 on Fortune’s 2021 rankings of America’s largest corporations. In the communities we serve, the company focuses its social impact on building a sustainable, inclusive future for all by supporting housing affordability, small business growth, financial health, and a low-carbon economy. News, insights, and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories.