Sponsors
Foundational Sponsor
Amazon
As part of its mission to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, Amazon is committed to building a more sustainable business for its employees, customers, and communities. In 2019, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge and committed to reach net-zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. 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 by 2025. Amazon uses nature-based solutions to mitigate carbon emissions outside of our value chain and supplement the carbon-reduction efforts we’re driving across our operations. Learn more about Amazon’s sustainability efforts, its nature based solutions, and The Climate Pledge.
Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) is one of the world’s leading providers of technology, communications, information and entertainment products and services. Headquartered in New York City and with a presence around the world, Verizon generated revenues of $128.3 billion in 2020. The company offers data, video and voice services and solutions on its award winning networks and platforms, delivering on customers’ demand for mobility, reliable network connectivity, security and control. Verizon is committed to moving the world forward for everyone by expanding digital access, protecting the climate, and preparing people for the jobs of the future. Learn more at https://www.verizon.com/about/responsibility.
Premier Sponsors
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.
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. Our longstanding commitment to sustainability and climate action extends across our business operations, product development and advocacy efforts. Learn more at https://www.adobe.com/corporate-responsibility/sustainability.html.
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Ericsson
Ericsson is one of the leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to cellular service providers. We enable the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt, and scale, making our customers successful in a fully connected world. Ericsson is creating a world of limitless connectivity, where mobile technology opens new possibilities to pioneer a sustainable future. Ericsson has set an ambition to be Net Zero across our value chain by 2040. As part of this work, we aim to be Net Zero in our own activities and cut emissions by 50 percent in our supply chain and portfolio by 2030. Learn more: www.ericsson.com/sustainability
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.
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.
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
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Walmart
Walmart helps people around the world save money and live better - anytime and anywhere - in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. The company is committed to help increase economic opportunity, enhance sustainability of value chains and strengthen local community resilience. We know that addressing key social and environmental challenges requires collective efforts both upstream and downstream so, Walmart has convened key suppliers, NGOs and organizations to establish commitments and initiate projects towards a collective goal that will reduce emissions across their respective supply chains 1 Gigaton by 2030. Walmart is inviting others to participate in this “Project Gigaton”. For more information on Project Gigaton or Walmart’s Sustainability initiatives visit www.walmartsustainabilityhub.comor www.corporate.walmart.com.
Supporting Sponsors
Honeywell
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
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.
Innovation Center for US Dairy
The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy® was established in 2008 by farmers through the dairy checkoff to foster collaboration that progresses the industry’s goal of building a healthy and sustainable future for the dairy community, the people it serves, and the planet we all share. The Innovation Center convenes diverse stakeholders and leaders to advance the U.S. dairy community’s positive impact on shared social responsibility and sustainability priorities that include nutrition and health, food security, the environment, animal care, workforce and food safety. Through these efforts, the U.S. dairy community contributes to a more sustainable world for future generations. For more information, visit usdairy.com/about-us/innovation-center.
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.
Silicon Valley Bank
SVB is the financial partner of the innovation economy, supporting innovators and investors who are addressing some of the biggest challenges of our time. Guided by our values, we are committed to helping create a more just, equitable and sustainable world. SVB’s businesses - Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Capital, SVB Private and SVB Securities - together offer the services that dynamic and fast-growing clients require as they grow. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, SVB operates in centers of innovation around the world. Learn more at svb.com/global and read about our ESG work at svb.com/about-us/living-our-values.
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 environmentally responsible products and services. The company’s bold 2030 Sustainability Commitments are central to its business strategy and include its Gigaton Challenge – a pledge to reduce customers’ carbon emissions by one gigaton (a billion metric tons, or, 2% of the world’s annual emissions), and to achieve carbon neutral operations. These commitments also 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.
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.
Ageto
Ageto Energy was founded to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy in power systems. The Ageto ARC Microgrid Controller is a robust, reliable and highly flexible control solution designed to amplify the value of your energy resources in three-phase behind-the-meter and off-grid microgrid installations. The ARC controller acts as the single interface for your entire system, providing autonomous system control and optimization, data collection and visualization, alarm handling and countless other features designed to ease the operation and maintenance of these complex and high investment systems. At Ageto, we are breaking down the cost and complexity barriers that are currently preventing more renewable microgrid projects from moving forward. Learn more at www.agetoenergy.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
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
Contributing Sponsors
Carbon XPrizes
XPRIZE is a global future-positive movement delivering truly radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The first-ever XPRIZE competition, the $10 Million Ansari XPRIZE for sub-orbital spaceflight, captured the world’s imagination and catalyzed a multi-billion-dollar commercial space industry. Today, XPRIZE tackles the world's grandest challenges in exploration, environment and human equity and to date, has launched 23 competitions totaling more than $293 Million in prize purses. Active competitions include the $100 Million XPRIZE Carbon Removal funded by the Musk Foundation, $15 Million XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion, $10 Million XPRIZE Rainforest, $10 Million ANA Avatar XPRIZE, $5 Million XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling and $1 Million Digital Learning Challenge. Donate, sign up or join a team at xprize.org.
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.
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/.
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
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/
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.
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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.
Corteva Agriscience
Corteva Agriscience is a publicly traded, global pure-play agriculture company that provides farmers around the world with the most complete portfolio in the industry - including a balanced and diverse mix of seed, crop protection and digital solutions focused on maximizing productivity to enhance yield and profitability. With some of the most recognized brands in agriculture and an industry-leading product and technology pipeline well positioned to drive growth, the company is committed to working with stakeholders throughout the food system as it fulfills its promise to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. Learn more at https://www.corteva.com/.
Schneider Electric
Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency. We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure, and industries. We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values. Learn more at www.se.com/us.
Coho Climate Advisors
Coho provides advisory services for climate, energy, and water. We provide deep market insight, analytical problem-solving, and change management expertise so that clients can pursue climate and water goals with confidence and internal alignment. We have served over 60 companies and helped them contract for approximately 7 million MWhs of renewable energy, enough to power over 650,000 homes and drive $5+ billion of new investment in renewable energy projects. To learn more, visit www.cohoclimate.com.
ServiceNow
ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) makes the world work better for everyone. Our cloud-based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. So employees and customers can be more connected, more innovative, and more agile. And we can all create the future we imagine. The world works with ServiceNow™. For more information, visit: www.servicenow.com
DNV
DNV is an independent assurance and risk management provider, operating in more than 100 countries. Through its broad experience and deep expertise, DNV advances safety and sustainable performance, sets industry standards, and inspires and invents 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.
For more information, please visit www.dnv.com.
Siemens
At Siemens, we believe in helping you create the perfect place. Safe, reliable, and energy-efficient buildings and infrastructure give you the perfect place to learn, to develop, to grow, to succeed. With our comprehensive portfolio of building automation and control systems, room automation, fire safety products, and security solutions, you get the partner you need. To learn more about the Siemens Building Technologies Division, visit usa.siemens.com/perfect-places.
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.
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 Sustainability Solutions leverage technology to provide the transparency our clients need to make smarter decisions that drive sustainable transformation.
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.
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
TotalEnergies
TotalEnergies Renewables USA brings unrivaled expertise to the commercial solar, energy storage and community solar markets, making us the premier energy transformation partner for commercial and institutional customers committed to their own ambitious sustainability and operational goals. The commercial solutions team joined TotalEnergies through its recent acquisition of SunPower's C&I business, enabling customers to benefit from the combination of the leading C&I development and construction group amplified by TotalEnergies’ unrivaled financing and procurement power. With 30 years and 1,000 projects of solar experience in the U.S. and a century of global energy operations, TotalEnergies offers unmatched strength and stability. As project owners, we are as invested as our customers in the safe, reliable and productive long-term operation of our systems. Visit https://corporate.totalenergies.us/renewables.
Acario Innovation
Acario Innovation is the Silicon Valley-based corporate venture capital and open innovation arm of Tokyo Gas. Acario is focused on partnering with and funding market-leading companies in the new energy economy and sustainability sectors. We are active in decarbonization and hydrogen technologies, new energy services, and digital transformation. As a dedicated subsidiary of Tokyo Gas, Acario plays a key role in Tokyo Gas’ efforts to achieve its Compass 2030 vision of becoming a net-zero company.
Electronic Recyclers International
ERI is the largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company in the United States. ERI is certified at the highest level by all leading environmental and data security oversight organizations to de-manufacture, recycle, and refurbish every type of electronic device in an environmentally responsible manner. ERI has the capacity to process more than a billion pounds of electronic waste annually at its eight certified locations, serving every zip code in the United States. ERI’s mission is to protect people, the planet and privacy. For more information about e-waste recycling and ERI, call 1-800-ERI-DIRECT or visit https://eridirect.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.
Truist Securities
Truist Securities brings together the best of heritage brands SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets to bring you an even-better, full-service corporate and investment banking experience. With a rich history extending back more than 125 years, Truist Securities offers a robust capital markets and investment banking platform that includes a comprehensive array of strategic advisory, mergers and acquisition and capital markets capabilities for corporate and institutional clients, including sales, trading and research services in both fixed income and equity. The firm also provides corporate finance, asset finance, risk management, liquidity and treasury management solutions to meet clients’ full spectrum of financial needs.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Truist Securities encompasses more than 1,400 teammates in offices located across the U.S. Learn more at truistsecurities.com.
American Forest Foundation
The mission of the American Forest Foundation is to deliver meaningful conservation impact through the empowerment of family forest owners. We believe America’s family-owned forests are vital in combating climate change—and we’ve only just begun to unlock their potential. Together with our partner The Nature Conservancy, we developed the Family Forest Carbon Program, a new approach to forest carbon projects in the Voluntary Carbon Market. The Family Forest Carbon Program empowers forest owners to address climate change while earning income from their land and offers companies, who are working to neutralize their residual emissions, high-integrity, third-party verified carbon credits. We know we can solve our biggest environmental challenges when we work together. Learn more about how you can be part of our innovative solutions at forestfoundation.org.
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.
Truterra
Truterra, the sustainability business of Land O'Lakes, helps scale on-farm stewardship by working with and through agretailers. The Truterra business is built on the idea that farmer return-on-investment can generate an environmental return-on-investment. With access to conservation expertise and the latest tools and technology, Truterra helps farmers make decisions about managing their soil – such as adopting minimum or no-till practices, optimizing fertilizer management or planting cover crops – that can both maximize yields and expand stewardship. Truterra collaborates with conservation organizations, government agencies (including USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service) and value chain partners to create new opportunities for added value through innovative market mechanisms such as carbon dioxide removal credits and pay for-success water quality programs. https://www.truterraag.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.
Vanguard Renewables
Vanguard Renewables, based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, is a national leader in developing food and dairy waste-to-renewable energy projects. The Company owns and operates on-farm anaerobic digester facilities in the northeast and currently operates manure-only digesters in the south and west for Dominion Energy. Vanguard Renewables plans to expand nationwide to more than 150 anaerobic digestion facilities by 2026.
The Company is committed to advancing decarbonization by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from farms and food waste, generating renewable energy, and supporting regenerative agriculture on partner farms via Farm Powered® anaerobic digestion.
In 2020, Vanguard Renewables co-founded the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance (“FPSA”) along with Starbucks, Unilever, and Dairy Farmers of America to tackle food waste generated by food and beverage manufacturers. The Alliance is a pre-competitive, collaborative movement to boost food waste reduction and recycling, and to expand renewable energy production across America, while helping to sustain family farms. The FPSA now includes Cabot Creamery, Chobani, Food Tank, Great Lakes Cheese, Hillebrand, Kikkoman, Polar Beverages, Schrieber Foods, Smithfield Foods, and Stonyfield Organic.
Vanguard Renewables is a portfolio company of BlackRock Real Assets.
To learn more, visit: www.vanguardrenewables.com
Arbor Day Foundation
From local streets to international forest ecosystems, the Arbor Day Foundation has been planting trees in the places that need them most for over 50 years. Our global network and decades of experience allow us to connect our partners with the strategic reforestation, community planting, and verified forestry carbon projects that align to your goals. Whether your business is new to sustainability or already has a sophisticated plan in place, we can authentically integrate trees and drive lasting, measurable impact together.
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.
VelocityEHS
Relied on by more than 10 million users worldwide to drive operational excellence and achieve outstanding outcomes, VelocityEHS is the global leader in true SaaS enterprise EHS & ESG technology. The VelocityEHS Accelerate® Platform is the definitive gold-standard, delivering best-in-class solutions for managing for managing your EHS & ESG processes. The VelocityEHS team includes unparalleled industry expertise, with more certified experts in health, safety, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, sustainability, the environment, AI, and machine learning than any EHS software provider. Recognized by the EHS industry’s top independent analysts as a Leader in the Verdantix 2021 Green Quadrant Analysis—VelocityEHS is committed to industry thought leadership and to accelerating the pace of innovation through its software solutions and vision. For more information, visit www.EHS.com.
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, click here.
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/
Veolia
A subsidiary of Veolia group, Veolia North America (VNA) offers a full spectrum of water, waste and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. VNA helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Veolia North America has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 400 locations across the continent. www.veolianorthamerica.com
Veolia’s mission is to resource the world, helping customers address their environmental and sustainability challenges in energy, water and waste. This means improving clients' energy efficiency, better managing their water and wastewater, and recovering resources from their wastes.
Boeing
Boeing is committed to protecting, connecting, and exploring our world and beyond, safely and sustainably. Sustainability is rooted in our company values, our stakeholders’ expectations, and encompasses our focus on environmental stewardship, social progress and inclusion, and values-based, transparent governance of our company. We support our industry’s commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and are partnering across the sector to decarbonize. Learn more about our sustainability efforts here.
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.
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.
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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.
Participating Sponsors
East Bay Community Energy
East Bay Community Energy is the default electricity generation provider for Alameda County and the City of Tracy committed to providing clean energy at low rates. Our mission is to provide more renewable energy at lower rates; and reinvest revenues back into our communities to create local jobs, administer customer programs, and catalyze sustainable development. For more information, go to ebce.org.
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.
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.
San José Clean Energy
San José Clean Energy (SJCE) is the Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) for the City of San José and has been providing renewable electricity to residents and businesses since February 2019. SJCE is a part of a proven model of locally controlled electricity providers, known as CCAs, who now serve over 11 million customers in California. SJCE will play an integral role in achieving San José’s ambitious goal to be carbon neutral by 2030 by supplying the carbon-free energy to support transportation and building electrification and developing programs to shape, manage, and equitably encourage electrification.
FigBytes
FigBytes is a complete sustainability platform, designed to empower future-focused organizations to make positive changes for people and the planet. We transform complex information into simple reporting and functional insights with an intuitive software that captures Environmental, Social, and Governance data from across an organization, its existing systems, and external sources and manages it in a central, cloud-based platform that connects organizational strategy, automates framework reporting, and simplifies stakeholder engagement. The FigBytes platform was purpose-built to address the complex world of sustainability and ESG reporting, is fully integrated to deliver a unified experience, and is comprehensive, addressing carbon accounting and the emerging sustainability issues of tomorrow. Learn how we can help you simplify your sustainability journey at FigBytes.com.
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.
Fill it Forward
Every time you reuse, we give. Fill it Forward is a Certified B-Corporation that works closely with organizations of all sizes to inspire reuse. Amplify your impact with our interactive technology, charitable giving, and sustainable products. Perfect for events, companies, schools, and food service operators. Watch the how it works video and learn more at www.fillitforward.com
Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Silicon Valley Clean Energy is a not-for-profit, community-owned agency providing clean electricity from renewable and carbon-free sources to more than 270,000 residential and commercial customers in 13 Santa Clara County jurisdictions. As a public agency, net revenues are returned to the community to keep rates competitive and promote clean energy programs. Silicon Valley Clean Energy is advancing innovative solutions to fight climate change by decarbonizing the grid, transportation, and buildings. Learn more at SVCleanEnergy.org.
AEP Energy
At AEP Energy, we are energy solvers. We empower businesses, organizations and communities across the country to achieve their unique energy objectives. As your energy partner and one of the nation’s leading commercial energy suppliers, AEP Energy offers end-to-end guidance on energy choices, develops smart solutions and executes strategies. From realizing sustainability missions to reaching financial goals, we achieve the difficult by integrating energy supply, assets, and services to create a customized 360º energy solution that meets your needs. Our products and services range from wholesale and retail energy supply and technology solutions in more than 10 states to nationwide coverage of advisory, procurement and implementation of services.
FiscalNote ESG Solutions
FiscalNote ESG Solutions is the most comprehensive ESG platform and advisory solution on the market helping organizations become sustainability leaders – from getting started with strategic insights, benchmarking, and reporting to embedding ESG into an organization’s DNA. FiscalNote ESG Solutions brings together Equilibrium’s AI-powered platform, award-winning analysis, global advisory, and a peer community to help organizations achieve its ESG goals. Visit: fiscalnote.com/esg
SmartFlower Solar
To make the world a greener place, to bring solar to new heights of technological innovation, and to offer an elegant option to those who believe in sustainability for a better energy and environmental future, that is what SmartFlower Solar aims to do. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, SmartFlower Solar manufactures and markets the revolutionary and patented Smartflower solar energy system. Its product platform consists of the Smartflower, Smartflower +Plus – which has an integrated battery storage component – and the Smartflower EV which is a solar powered electric vehicle charger. The company sells its products globally to a wide range of residential, commercial, and institutional energy users searching for iconic design and optimal solar and energy storage solutions. Learn more at www.smartflower.com.
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.
ALL Power Labs
All Power Labs (APL) is a Berkeley, CA-based company that designs, manufactures, and deploys equipment to convert organic wastes into carbon negative power and products. Our systems are based on biomass gasification, with outputs across electricity, heat, water, cooling, and biochar. We have an international team of engineers and business operations, with machine deliveries to over 50 countries since our founding in 2008. APL launched its Local Carbon Network initiative in 2018 which is a community-powered network that engages local resources and partners to transform biomass and food waste into energy and soil products that provide economic value and positive climate impact within the community.
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/.
SOURCE Global
A Public Benefit Corporation, SOURCE Global, PBC’s mission is to make drinking water an unlimited resource. The company’s SOURCE® Hydropanels use the sun to draw pure water vapor out of the air and transform it into fresh, high-quality, perfectly mineralized drinking water. Unlike piped, well or bottled water, SOURCE water is produced entirely off the grid, in almost any climate, and in places with no reliable access to safe drinking water. SOURCE® Hydropanels are currently serving companies, communities, and consumers in more than 50 countries. For more information, visit www.source.co and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
Ameresco
Founded in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading cleantech integrator and renewable energy asset developer, owner and operator. Our comprehensive portfolio includes energy efficiency, infrastructure upgrades, asset sustainability and renewable energy solutions delivered to clients throughout North America and Europe. Ameresco’s sustainability services in support of clients’ pursuit of net zero include upgrades to a facility’s energy infrastructure and the development, construction, and operation of distributed energy resources. Ameresco has successfully completed energy saving, environmentally responsible projects with Federal, state and local governments, healthcare and educational institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers. www.ameresco.com
Grassroots Carbon
Grassroots Carbon makes it easier for companies to reduce their carbon footprint by offering quantifiable carbon drawdown through soil carbon storage at a scale that matters. GrassrootsCarbon can offer access to over 6 million acres of regeneratively managed land through its proprietary grazing management platform, PastureMap. Through its PastureMap network and transparent business model, Grassroots Carbon helps leading companies remove massive amounts of carbon quickly, reliably, and naturally, while providing ranchers a fair payment for storing carbon in their healthy soil. Recarbonize the Soil™ at BuildGrassroots.com.
South Pole
South Pole, recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Social Enterprise, has been at the forefront of decarbonization since 2006. With its global climate solutions platform, South Pole develops and implements comprehensive strategies that turn climate action into long-term business opportunities for companies, governments and organizations around the world. South Pole is also a leading project developer, and has provided nearly 1,000 projects in over 50 countries with climate finance to reduce over a gigaton of CO2 emissions, and to provide social benefits to less privileged communities who are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Read our most recent report Net Zero and Beyond: A Deep-dive on Climate Leaders and What’s Driving Them for more insights.
ARPA-E
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is the U.S. Department of Energy’s premier high-risk/high-potential innovation R&D agency. We support potentially transformational early-stage energy technologies that could impact the way Americans get, use, and store energy. We fund U.S. innovators in academia, private industry, national laboratories, start-up companies, and small businesses. ARPA-E explores technical white spaces to accelerate innovation critical to enhanced energy security, increased energy efficiency, and reduced energy-related emissions. ARPA-E provides energy innovators with targeted funding and technical assistance to prove the viability of their technology and guidance on how to move successful technologies to the marketplace. Learn more: arpa-e.energy.gov
Heila Technologies
Founded at MIT in 2015, Heila consists of a team of energy experts working to build the future of clean, resilient, and sustainable energy by using innovative yet simple solutions for monitoring, analytics, control, optimization, and O&M for energy systems of all kinds. Heila's EDGE® microgrid control platform is embedded across various industries and sectors, from a local vineyard to large manufacturing plants and from a rural co-op to a US military base. As part of Kohler Power, Heila is expanding the impact of its systems and solutions, strengthening the collective mission to deliver resilient energy to people, companies, and communities worldwide. For more details, please visit heilatech.com.
Spotlight Solar
Spotlight Solar makes beautiful solar structures that are designed for visibility and human engagement. Solar trees and furniture complement larger renewable energy projects that are out of view. Make a statement of clean energy advocacy while providing shade and power for work, study, and relaxation. Learn more at https://spotlightsolar.com.
Blockchain Laboratories
Blockchain Laboratories is building web3 software and systems using innovative carbon neutral blockchain and DLT networks. Blockchain Laboratories is working on DeFi, dApps, and Protocols in the voluntary carbon markets, forest conservation, renewable energy, and real estate. Our founder developed “ESG NFTs” and was one of the first to issue digital assets representing rights to future CO2 sequestered from perpetually conserved forest land. Our disruptive web3 platforms have the potential to rapidly scale funding for things like ecological restoration, and also bring radical transparency to things like the voluntary carbon markets. Blockchain Laboratories is at the forefront of innovation in smart contracts, tokenization, and decentralized data. As a leading innovator in ESG digital assets, we have a competitive advantage with our web3 technology and carbon credit solutions.
Insight Energy
Insight Energy delivers customized energy and sustainability solutions that reduce costs, manage risk and improve competitive position. We partner with over 400 private equity and C&I clients to establish, develop, and execute against decarbonization targets, while maintaining a unique focus on cost savings and EBIDTA impact. Insight Energy is the energy and sustainability division of Insight Sourcing Group, the largest management consulting firm in North America focused exclusively on strategic sourcing and procurement. As procurement and supply chain professionals, Insight Energy provides data-driven recommendations to our clients to accelerate decarbonization efforts across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. Learn more at insightsourcing.com/energy
Terrapass
Terrapass is a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to the fight against climate change. Our mission is to provide the resources necessary for companies and individuals to understand and take responsibility for their climate impact. Learn more at: https://terrapass.com/verge
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.
KERAMIDA
KERAMIDA is a 30+ years old EHS and Sustainability consultancy, conducting major GHG and Sustainability projects, and giving talks on these subjects since the 1990s. KERAMIDA serves businesses, industries, cities and governments across the nation and around the globe. KERAMIDA’s unique expertise in Sustainability and GHG/Climate Action includes strategy, planning, reporting, verification, GHG reductions, data analytics, management system development, and training. KERAMIDA is one of only a few companies in the USA certified to offer GRI, SASB and CDP Sustainability reporting training. Learn more at www.keramida.com. KERAMIDA is proud to sponsor the KERAMIDA Foundation for Sustainable Living, www.keramidafoundation.com.
WatchWire
WatchWire is an entrepreneurial, private equity backed New York City-based provider of sustainability and energy management software-as-a-service and associated professional services to large commercial and corporate real estate, retail portfolios, industrial energy consumers, and utilities. By combining various streams of utility, weather, commodity market, metering, and building data in our integrated sustainability and energy management platform, we provide data-driven services and insights that help clients track and meet their ambitious sustainability goals, while also saving them time and money, reducing risks, and identifying cost saving opportunities. Through our platform, we serve nearly a billion square feet of real estate, thousands of utility accounts, and ~$3 billion in annual utility spend across 49 states and 4 continents. Our clients range from mature sustainability veterans representing GRESB sector leaders, ENERGY STAR Partners of the Year, and progressive thought leaders, to companies just starting the sustainability journey with their first voluntary report(s), as well as clients simply interested in optimizing their utility bill management and reporting practices. Regardless of the ultimate end use case(s), timely, accurate, and complete data is paramount to energy and sustainability management and reporting. Learn more about WatchWire here.
Blue Planet Energy
Blue Planet Energy is making the promise of grid independence a reality. With scalable solutions, Blue Planet Energy enables safe, resilient, clean energy to be delivered through distributed, smart energy storage and microgrids. Featuring Blue Ion technology, our premium products are used in homes, businesses, and communities to provide energy security and independence from the utility grid while driving the increased use of renewable power generation. To learn more about Blue Planet Energy, visit blueplanetenergy.com.
Kraken
Kraken is the world’s leading customer & culture platform for utilities, purpose-built to make the global transition to green energy quicker & cheaper. Our platform provides a best-in-class customer experience. This means a better billing engine & modern CIS/CRM that’s highly customizable and built to support the next generation of use cases including advanced rates, net metering, and connecting & managing DERs. With Kraken, you can roll out new offerings in a matter of months, not years, and without the need for additional external resources. We combine this platform with a pioneering operating model that empowers customer service teams to act with autonomy on behalf of customers, resulting in reduction in cost-to-serve & rapid transformation in positive customer service scores. We support over 25m customer accounts worldwide, including with Origin Energy, E.ON, Tokyo Gas, tracking to 100m accounts by 2027.
WSP
WSP USA is one of the nation’s largest environmental, engineering and professional services firms, with 12,000 employees in 175 offices across the U.S. WSP USA’s Climate, Resilience & Sustainability experts design Future Ready™ strategies that help organizations mitigate emissions, adapt to changing conditions, and identify climate-related risks and opportunities to become more resilient. We are a trusted partner in developing effective, equitable solutions across the entire process of climate preparedness. Reckon with the past. Innovate for the future. Learn more at wsp.com.
Budderfly
Budderfly, the fastest-growing Energy Efficiency as a Service (EEaaS) company in the United States, is the premier sustainability partner for businesses with repeatable footprints, such as restaurant chains, assisted living facilities, retail franchises, and more. Budderfly installs, monitors, and manages a combination of patented technologies, equipment upgrades, and proprietary energy software for its customers at no out-of-pocket cost. Businesses benefit with lower energy bills, a reduced carbon footprint, more reliable operations, and an improved customer and employee experience. Budderfly ranked #2 in energy companies and #10 overall on the 2021 Inc. 5000 America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list. For more information visit www.budderfly.com, or follow Budderfly on Twitter @BudderflyEnergy and LinkedIn @Budderfly Inc.
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
Yotta Energy
Yotta Solar is an Austin, Texas innovator that is simplifying energy storage for microgrids by removing the complexity and cost of centralized stationary storage. Yotta’s patented SolarLEAF™ utilizes a technological breakthrough in smart thermal regulation that enables panel-level energy storage in even the most extreme climates. This creates a symbiotic relationship between the solar panels and energy storage that streamlines project design and installation, eliminates the need for complex HVAC and fire suppression systems, and doesn’t require extra real estate for containerized solutions - resulting in significantly lower project costs. Learn more at www.yottaenergy.com.
BoxPower
BoxPower is a social enterprise creating the future of off-grid power and energy resilience. BoxPower’s ecosystem of software and hardware solutions optimize the performance and accelerate the deployment of solar plus storage microgrids. From energy audit to operation, BoxPower provides turnkey engineering, construction, and management services. BoxPower systems integrate solar power, battery storage, inverters, monitoring and control software, and optional backup generators in a rugged containerized design. BoxPower systems are providing clean, resilient power for utilities, telecom sites, EV charging, agriculture, disaster preparedness, and community electrification. To date, BoxPower has offset more than 30 million pounds of carbon dioxide and is providing power to over 4,000 individuals and businesses. https://boxpower.io
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.
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.
Nasdaq
Nasdaq is a technology company, rewriting the future of global economies and markets by unlocking capital and opportunities through our technology, innovation, and expertise. With industry-shaping insights, unrivaled intel, and cutting-edge financial technology at our fingertips, we don’t chase the opportunities of tomorrow — we create them. Nasdaq’s core businesses include Market Tech, Information Services, Market Services, and Corporate Services.
Nasdaq is committed to supporting companies in the advancement of their ESG practices and has made investments to guide clients from pre-IPO stage through maturity. Nasdaq helps companies of all ESG maturity levels through a unique combination of technology, tools, data, insights and capital market solutions. These offerings are backed by our own experience as a public company, applying and honing these practices over our tenure as a market leader. Learn more at https://www.nasdaq.com/solutions/corporate-esg-solutions.
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.
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/.
Cloverly
Cloverly helps you bring to life climate-positive products and services effortlessly. Using our technology-first marketplace for high-quality verified carbon credits and our API infrastructure, you can embed climate action into your customer experiences with a few lines of code. Leveraging Cloverly, your users can compensate for carbon footprints from their activities with trusted carbon credits within your product and be confident of its impact. https://www.cloverly.com/
PowerFlex
PowerFlex, an EDF Renewables company, is a leading national provider of intelligent onsite energy solutions that support carbon-free electrification and transportation. The Company delivers integrated solar, storage, EV charging, and microgrid systems to businesses and organizations. As a single full-service provider, PowerFlex customizes clean technology solutions to help clients achieve their energy and sustainability goals. Through the comprehensive PowerFlex X platform, PowerFlex leverages patented smart software to control, monitor, and optimize a client's distributed energy resources to reduce cost and maximize return on investment. For more information, visit www.powerflex.com.
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
Marli Technology Solutions
Marli aim to prevent climate change through advanced technologies. We are developing the infrastructure and automation tools necessary to enable individuals and businesses offset their environmental footprint from everyday activities. Marli are working towards making offsetting available to the general population at scale, ensuring the process is simple and enabling the effective funding of environmental projects that can save or absorb CO2 emissions. Utilizing green blockchain, we make it traceable and transparent. Visit us at https://marli.io
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.
Sawatch Labs
Sawatch Labs is the leading analytics firm helping fleets identify opportunities to increase their ROI and meet their sustainability goals. Our advanced analytics and software unlock the potential in your operational data, providing real-time insight at your fingertips. Since 2017, we've been supporting data-driven fleet management, working with fleets nationwide.
Scope Zero
Scope Zero is the creator of a new green employee benefit called a Carbon Savings Account™ (CSA). Employees use CSA funds for eligible home technology and personal transportation upgrades that reduce their utility bills and fuel consumption. The CSA makes these upgrades a financial no-brainer for employees by lowering upfront costs in two ways: employer matches (think health savings account), and referral discounts from partner vendors within the CSA marketplace ecosystem. The CSA is an employee-centric corporate sustainability strategy, as it reduces both employees’ cost of living and employers’ scope 3 work-from-home and commute emissions.
The Supplant Company
The Supplant Company is a plant-based ingredient company that upcycles agricultural side streams (like wheat straw, corn cobs and oat hulls) to develop and manufacture ingredients like Supplant™ sugars from fiber which are better for humans and the environment. Supplant™ sugars from fiber defines an entirely new category of better-for-you and better-for-the-environment sugars and addresses three interconnected problems of 1. global nutrition (fewer calories, a low glycemic response and benefits of a prebiotic) 2. sustainability (upcycling agriculture’s most abundant and underused resource), and 3. food security (making more food from the same land). Learn more at: https://supplant.com/
Brightest
Brightest designs intelligent software to manage, measure, track, and improve your company's sustainability, supply chain, and environmental social governance (ESG) performance. Over 300+ organizations around the world trust Brightest to gather, organize, and analyze data on their top ESG and social impact initiatives, measure emissions targets, reduce and manage environmental risks, and report their results to investors, customers, and other stakeholders. Learn more at https://www.brightest.io
Carbonfuture
Carbonfuture is an end-to-end platform for companies who want to participate in removing carbon from the atmosphere. The climate tech startup offers access to premium carbon removal and participation in the world's most cutting-edge carbon community. Unlike traditional marketplaces, the combination of Carbonfuture’s digital platform, project financing tools, and long-term partnerships ensures a new tier of credit quality, whilst simultaneously reducing friction for growth across the world’s most promising carbon removal technologies. Companies like Microsoft, SwissRe, Klarna, and South Pole trust Carbonfuture to help them meet their climate commitments in a transparent, verifiable and scientifically robust way. Carbonfuture operates globally with offices in Freiburg, Germany and San Francisco, USA. See the latest at carbonfuture.earth.
Climate Salad
Climate Salad is Australia's leading climate tech network, we support climate tech founders with tools, programs and community. Our mission is to help 1,000 climate tech companies and create 10 global successes, Green Unicorns (which we view as companies with a $1B valuation, have 1M customers or have avoided/removed 10M tonnes of GHGe) Find out more about Climate Salad here.
EMC Squared Vehicles
EMC Squared Vehicles is a mobility startup building space efficient electric vehicles. Based in Southern California, we are committed to improving quality of travel & significantly lowering operating cost of vehicle fleets with a highly scalable platform suited for shared usage. Our first product is the smallest enclosed EV in the U.S. with manually swappable li-ion battery packs which enable 24/7 operation. Our business model is B2B. Contact us for the test drive of EV @ www.emc2vehicles.com
Convening Partners
Avida Energy (REEF)
The Refrigerant Emissions Elimination Forum (REEF) is a community of corporate sustainability leaders using their collective expertise and buying power to accelerate action on super-polluting refrigerants, with a focus on HVAC. As the fastest growing source of greenhouse gases, refrigerants have an increasingly important role to play in meeting our climate targets. Unfortunately, few solutions are currently available for HVAC, Heat Pump and Refrigeration buyers to meet their scope 1 zero emissions goals and more needs to be done to drive innovation and improvement.
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 for Climatetech is an elite program for innovative Canadian tech companies, helping with market growth and investment attraction in the US. The CTA Climatetech is a joint program between the Consulates General of Canada in New York, San Francisco, Denver, and Boston providing key resources to Canadian entrepreneurs in the sustainable technology space to help them accelerate their growth into the global market. Meet the 2022 CTA Climatetech cohort in the Startup Pavillion or join our Canada Reception on Monday, October 24th at 4PM!
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
Ceres
ReFED
ReFED is a multi-stakeholder nonprofit, powered by an influential network of the nation’s leading business, nonprofit, foundation, and government leaders committed to reducing U.S. food waste. ReFED takes a data-driven approach to move the food system from acting on instinct to insights to solve our national food waste problem. Llearn more at refed.com
First Movers Coalition
The FMC is a coalition of companies using their purchasing power to create early markets for innovative clean technologies across eight hard to abate sectors. These in-scope sectors are responsible for 30% of global emissions–a proportion expected to rise to over 50% by mid-century without urgent progress on clean technology innovation.
Commitments for the first four sectors (Aviation, Shipping, Steel and Trucking) were launched in November 2021, at COP26 in Glasgow. Details on each of the commitments can be found here. The next two sectors (Aluminium and Carbon Dioxide Removal) will be launched at the May 2022 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. The final two sectors (Chemicals and Concrete) are planned to launch at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Although formulating purchase commitments and aggregating demand against these commitments is core to the FMC, the Coalition’s activities go beyond this. Other activities focus on supporting members in delivering on their commitments and creating an enabling environment.
Community Partners
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.
American Made
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) focuses on creative answers to today's energy challenges. From breakthroughs in fundamental science to new clean technologies to integrated energy systems that power our lives, NREL researchers are transforming the way the nation and the world use energy. NREL works collaboratively with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to administer the American-Made program. This program utilizes prize challenges to accelerate clean tech innovations, advance research, develop community engagement, and build new businesses. Network support, lab vouchers, technical assistance, pitch training, and workforce development are utilized to help innovators succeed along the way.
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.
Plug in America
Plug In America is a non-profit, supporter-driven advocacy group. We are the voice of plug-in vehicle drivers across the country. Our mission is to drive change to accelerate the shift to plug-in vehicles powered by clean, affordable, domestic electricity to reduce our nation’s dependence on petroleum, improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We help consumers, policy-makers, auto manufacturers, and others to understand the powerful benefits of driving electric. We provide practical, objective information to help consumers select the best plug-in vehicle for their lifestyles and needs. Plug In America founded National Drive Electric Week, the world’s largest celebration of the plug-in vehicle, which welcomed over 180,000 attendees across 324 events in 2019, spanning all 50 states.
Sustain SoCal
Sustain Southern California (Sustain SoCal) accelerates cleantech economic growth and sustainability initiatives through innovation, collaboration and education in Southern California.
Post Script Media
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.
Future 500
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
Science Based Targets Network
The Science Based Targets Network aims to transform economic systems and protect the global commons – our air, water, land, biodiversity and ocean.
We bring together experts from more than 45 NGOs, business associations and consultancies to collectively define what is necessary to do “enough” to stay within Earth’s limits and meet society’s needs.
Our work builds on the momentum of the Science Based Targets initiative. It responds to the demand for more methods, guidance and tools to set science-based targets for the whole Earth system. The organizations that make up the Science Based Targets initiative are among our core founding partners.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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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.
Prospect Silicon Valley
ProspectSV is a non-profit commercialization catalyst assisting emerging technology companies with a pathway to market, bringing high-impact solutions forward in the Bay Area. ProspectSV’s team of highly qualified technical and market experts assist startups with a suite of commercialization services and collaborates with Bay Area cities to implement next-generation technologies for our commutes, workplaces, homes, environment and overall quality of life. Drawing together government, business and institutional leadership into collaborative partnership, the ProspectSV team develops local initiatives with an aim toward global impact.
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.
Nature For Justice
We aim for a more just world where people and nature work in tandem to confront the impact of the climate crisis. We’ll do this by mobilizing funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local communities to achieve climate resiliency. A major focus of ours is to advocate for at-risk communities, especially indigenous peoples, confronting the climate crisis. We believe strongly in Nature-based solutions and we will ensure fairness in the distribution of financial and carbon-based benefits to local participating communities. Our work will stand up to the rigors of transparency, peer review, and industry stanards. To scale our impact, we plan to accelerate and replicate successful landscape management techniques such as restoration, improved management, and forest protection. Recent science has demonstrated that these practices can contribute to over 30 percent of the solution in meeting the Paris agreement target.
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.
The Open Group
The Open Group is a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards. Our diverse membership of more than 850 organizations includes customers, systems and solutions suppliers, tool vendors, integrators, academics, and consultants across multiple industries. Further information on The Open Group can be found at www.opengroup.org.
In 2020, The Open Group launched the Open Footprint™ Forum with the aim of developing open, vendor-neutral standards to enable consistent measurement of environmental Footprint data. Find out more at https://www.opengroup.org/openfootprint-forum
Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC)
Climatebase
At Climatebase, we're mobilizing talent for a climate-positive world. We’re focused on solving one of the biggest challenges faced by organizations working on climate: Hiring. Our platform helps people discover climate jobs and transition into the space — and in doing so, we help climate-focused organizations hire the mission-driven talent they need to succeed.
Accelerate Partners
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
Prelude Ventures
Prelude Ventures is a venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs to address climate change. Since 2013, we have invested in over 60 companies across advanced energy, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, advanced materials and manufacturing, and advanced computing. We have a long-term commitment to the sector, accept informed risks, and couple a fundamental emphasis on venture-level returns with an understanding of deep-tech and hardware development timelines. Prelude manages capital exclusively for Simons family philanthropic entities and is a founding member of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.
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.
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
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.
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
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Walmart
Walmart helps people around the world save money and live better - anytime and anywhere - in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. The company is committed to help increase economic opportunity, enhance sustainability of value chains and strengthen local community resilience. We know that addressing key social and environmental challenges requires collective efforts both upstream and downstream so, Walmart has convened key suppliers, NGOs and organizations to establish commitments and initiate projects towards a collective goal that will reduce emissions across their respective supply chains 1 Gigaton by 2030. Walmart is inviting others to participate in this “Project Gigaton”. For more information on Project Gigaton or Walmart’s Sustainability initiatives visit www.walmartsustainabilityhub.comor www.corporate.walmart.com.
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.
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. Our longstanding commitment to sustainability and climate action extends across our business operations, product development and advocacy efforts. Learn more at https://www.adobe.com/corporate-responsibility/sustainability.html.
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Ericsson
Ericsson is one of the leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to cellular service providers. We enable the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt, and scale, making our customers successful in a fully connected world. Ericsson is creating a world of limitless connectivity, where mobile technology opens new possibilities to pioneer a sustainable future. Ericsson has set an ambition to be Net Zero across our value chain by 2040. As part of this work, we aim to be Net Zero in our own activities and cut emissions by 50 percent in our supply chain and portfolio by 2030. Learn more: www.ericsson.com/sustainability
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.
Sustainability Partners
South Pole
South Pole, recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Social Enterprise, has been at the forefront of decarbonization since 2006. With its global climate solutions platform, South Pole develops and implements comprehensive strategies that turn climate action into long-term business opportunities for companies, governments and organizations around the world. South Pole is also a leading project developer, and has provided nearly 1,000 projects in over 50 countries with climate finance to reduce over a gigaton of CO2 emissions, and to provide social benefits to less privileged communities who are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Read our most recent report Net Zero and Beyond: A Deep-dive on Climate Leaders and What’s Driving Them for more insights.
Bonneville Environmental Foundation
BEF sustainability products and services empower business to be in balance with offset products, environmental programs and custom solutions.
Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is non-profit organization founded in 1985 that is dedicated to creating a healthier world through an emphasis on plant-based nutrition and scientific research conducted ethically, without using animals.
Copia
Every day in America, we waste 3 times more food than there are mouths to feed. It is not a lack of food that's the issue, rather an ineffective distribution of that food. Hunger is not a scarcity problem — it's a logistics problem. For the first time ever, we can effectively donate prepared and highly perishable food to those who need it when they need it most. Copia’s technology allows businesses to request pickups of their surplus food. Copia’s platform then dispatches a driver to pick up the donation and deliver it to a nonprofit in need. Businesses that partner with Copia benefit from significant tax savings; robust waste tracking analytics to help reduce future waste; and marketing materials to share environmental and community impact with employees and stakeholders. Copia has diverted more than 1 million pounds of edible food from landfills and distributed over $9M worth of food to local nonprofits. We’re on our way to feeding over 2 million people with great food that would have otherwise been wasted!
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.
TerraCycle
TerraCycle is Eliminating the Idea of Waste® by recycling the "non-recyclable." Whether it's coffee capsules from your home, pens from a school, or plastic gloves from a manufacturing facility, TerraCycle can collect and recycle almost any form of waste. We partner with individual collectors such as yourself, as well as major consumer product companies, retailers, manufacturers, municipalities, and small businesses across 20 different countries. With your help, we are able to divert millions of pounds of waste from landfills and incinerators each month.
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/.