Accelerating the Circular Economy
As the leading convening of professionals building the circular economy, Circularity 23 offers thought-provoking keynotes, actionable breakouts, a solutions-oriented expo and unparalleled networking opportunities. Join the growing community of visionaries and practitioners to move beyond incremental action, catalyze systems change and accelerate the circular economy.
To build a just, resilient world that operates within planetary boundaries, we must transform our systems, structures and strategies. It’s time to unlearn linear systems. It’s time to move from extractive to regenerative. It’s time for the circular economy.
By attending Circularity 23, you’ll hear from innovative thought leaders and practitioners, participate in engaging sessions and form new connections, leaving you with the knowledge and resources to accelerate the circular economy.
Featured Speakers
Alyssa Macy
Alyssa Macy is a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon and was raised on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. She is of the Wasco, Navajo, and Hopi descent. Most recently, she served her Nation as the Chief Operations Officer where she was responsible for $33 million in tribal programming and services. Her previous experiences include working transportation, campaign management, communications and international advocacy within United Nations bodies. She is a published writer and co-authored the first ever national report on Native American voting in 2005. Alyssa has been a foster parent to 6 children and her oldest daughter is in her second year of college. In her spare time, she spends time reading, traveling, and spending time outdoors. She is a graduate of Arizona State University where she received her B.S. in Justice Studies and did her graduate studies at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis.
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Mike Werner
Mike is Lead for Circular Economy at Google where he is responsible for leading the organization to eliminate waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use, and drive the development and use of safer chemistry and healthy materials across their operations, products, and supply chains and enable others to do the same. While at Google, Mike also led the product sustainability and environmental compliance team in their consumer hardware division.
Prior to Google, Mike led safer chemistry and biocompatibility initiatives at Apple and product sustainability for Haworth Inc, a global contract office furniture manufacturer. Mike has worked in the green building and product design space for 15 years including with renowned green architect Bill McDonough.
Mike holds a BS in Chemistry from Villanova University. In addition to serving on the board of directors for the Healthy Building Network, he also serves on advisory boards for several organizations including the Green Science Policy Institute, ChemForward, and Materiom.org. Mike previously served as a sustainability advisor to the Department of Homeland Security and National Institute of Building Sciences.
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Recovering Critical Materials From the Untapped Urban Mine
Carmen Gama
Carmen Gama is Director of Circular Design at Eileen Fisher Inc.
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Sewing Circular: The Essential Design Principles
Tim Dunn
Tim Dunn is Head of Environmental Sustainability and Compliance at Best Buy, a multinational retailer committed to enriching lives through technology. Tim has been in the environmental field for over fifteen years, with a background in environmental policy and business operations. At Best Buy, Tim has been at the forefront of sustainability, developing and implementing strategies that drive the business forward while protecting the environment, conserving natural resources, and systematically improving Best Buy’s environmental performance. Tim began his career at Best Buy in 2009, and in his tenure his accomplishments have included shaping environmental policies related to state and federal waste and recycling infrastructure, implementing national electronics recycling programs, and developing global audit programs driving toward a safer and more environmentally responsible recycling supply chain.
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Recovering Critical Materials From the Untapped Urban Mine
Joy Banner, PhD
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Shining a Light on Frontline Communities
Erin Simon
Erin works to drive positive change across industries by leading WWF’s packaging and material science program. Key to conservation is the overall protection of the planet’s natural resources, and packaging plays a vital role in that.
Through her efforts, she works with business and industry to help them make informed, sustainable material choices for their products and packaging. Her work focuses on the major commodities that go into packaging, which come in many different forms and materials, and how to integrate sustainability into the decisions and trade-offs that must be evaluated across a product’s lifecycle.
Erin works with companies to strategically address their packaging work streams by focusing on developing transparency in the supply chain for the major packaging materials and pursuing strategies that reduce the environmental impact of these materials through responsible sourcing.
Prior to joining WWF, Erin worked at Hewlett Packard for 10 years as a packaging engineer responsible for the design and implementation of laser jet printer and media packaging. Her expertise is in material science, design innovation, procurement, manufacturing, and logistical and point of purchase aspects of packaging.
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Navigating the Negotiations: An Update on the Global Plastics Treaty
The Plastics Treaty: Next Steps on Negotiations
Michael Smith
Michael is a General Partner at Regeneration.VC, an early stage venture fund supercharging consumer-powered climate innovation. He has founded and operated media and real estate businesses and enjoyed an extensive career as a global touring DJ. He led numerous environmental initiatives and has been an active investor in early to later stage impact companies. Starting in the late 90s, Michael ran marketing and digital platforms for Smith Broadcasting, a group of 20 network TV stations, which eventually sold to Boston Ventures. Shortly thereafter, he followed a lifelong passion in becoming a touring DJ, performing alongside Guns N Roses, Rihanna, and Diplo. In 2006, Michael launched and scaled The Playlist Generation, a leading background music provider to over 10,000 retail locations. In 2010, he co-founded Creative Space, an adaptive reuse real estate firm responsible for 80 projects in LA & SF.In 2015, he formed Ponvalley, an environmental initiative with philanthropic, research, and impact investing practices. Within two weeks following the 2016 election, Michael assembled an emergency climate summit with Former VP Al Gore, Gen. Wesley Clark, the Dept. of Energy, and Harvard leadership. He currently serves on the boards of PVBLIC Foundation, the American Renewable Energy Institute, and the Sustainable Change Alliance. He is a founding advisor to Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative and served as a Venture Fellow at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School. Michael is a graduate of Northwestern University. He resides in Santa Barbara with his wife and two kids.
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Funding the Future: Unlocking Circular Investments
Randi Marshall
Randi Marshall is the Head of Government & Public Affairs, U.S. at H&M, where she leads the fashion brand’s regional public policy strategy and stakeholder engagement efforts regarding sustainability and circularity. Prior to H&M, Randi held government relations roles at Zillow, AOBA, and Stateside Associates, and served as a policy advisor for the Mayor of the District of Columbia, Chairman of the DC City Council, and the Massachusetts State Senator representing Boston and Jamaica Plain.Randi holds a master’s degree in public administration with a concentration in public policy from the University of Baltimore, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Massachusetts Boston. A native of the California Bay Area, Randi now resides in Washington D.C. with her husband and 3-year-old daughter.H&M
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A Fresh Look at Fashion Policy
Dylan de Thomas
Dylan de Thomas is Vice President of Industry Collaboration for The Recycling Partnership, working with the team there to increase both the quantity and quality of the curbside collected recyclables across the U.S. Previous to joining the Partnership, he worked for Resource Recycling for a decade, directing and producing content for three publications and three conferences covering various aspects of the recycling industry. Now, when he isn’t indulging his hobby of recycling container photography he can be found with his family and an assortment of domestic animals at their home in Portland, Oregon.
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Exploring EPR: The State Policy Landscape
Ramona Liberoff
Ramona Liberoff is Executive Director of PACE (the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy) at the World Resources Institute, a global public-private platform based in the Hague, Netherlands. After a career leading innovation teams for global clients, she pivoted into impact finance and innovation, including roles as COO of the Innogy Innovation Hub, blended finance for impact ventures in emerging markets, and SPRING Accelerator in Africa and Asia. She is also a founder and early investor in a number of impact ventures in energy, climate and transport.
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Funding the Future: Unlocking Circular Investments
Veena Singla, PhD
Veena Singla is a Senior Scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Adjunct Assistant professor at Columbia University. Her work seeks to address health disparities linked to harmful environmental exposures using an interdisciplinary approach incorporating environmental health, exposure science, public health and policy expertise. Her research investigates how toxic chemicals and pollution related to systems of materials use, production and disposal threaten the health of impacted communities.Veena specializes in the communication of complex scientific information at the intersection of research and policy and has testified to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Alaska state legislature, and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She currently serves on the US EPA's Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee, the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors, the Board of Directors for Clean Production Action, and as Associate Director for the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Program.Veena previously was the Associate Director of Science and Policy at the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed a postdoctoral teaching fellowship at Stanford University and was an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in cell biology from UCSF.
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Cutting through the Chemical Recycling Noise
"Circularity is a great opportunity to learn from the leaders, big and small, pioneering circular solutions across industries. The event brought forward tangible insights as well as inspiration–immensely helpful whether you are starting off on your journey or looking to explore new edges."
“Circularity has set the bar for ‘real world real work real impact’ when it comes to transformational sustainability. It’s probably the best forum for brands who want to move past greenwashing toward embedding circularity into their day to day business operations, supply chains and quarterly P&L."
“Circularity creates a key venue for insight sharing and collaboration––both important elements to advancing the circular economy. Across topics from supply chain technology to policy, we have been thrilled to connect with the innovative companies and thought leaders that come together at Circularity.”
“We've attended Greenbiz's Circularity conference every year since inception and the gathering has made a significant impact on our work. Our coalition partners, which span activist-to-industry leaders across the plastic value chain, NGOs, solution providers, and scientists regularly attend. In addition to top tier relevant content, the ability to meet so many leaders all in one place is invaluable.”
“What an incredible opportunity to see the circular economy community in action. From innovators to Fortune 500 corporates, the event brought together a global audience of problem solvers with a shared mission. Left tired and inspired!”
Emerging Leaders
The Emerging Leaders program aims to elevate, cultivate and support the next generation of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) leaders in the climate community. Learn more and apply to be a Circularity 23 Emerging Leader by April 10th.
Big Little Talks
Do you have a big idea to share with the leading community of visionaries and practitioners advancing the transition to a circular economy? Big Little Talks at Circularity 23 will feature big-thinkers with game-changing ideas about how to accelerate the circular economy. The winning video will be played live as part of the keynote program at Circularity 23. The deadline to submit a video is April 5th.
Accelerate
Accelerate at Circularity 23 is a fast-pitch competition featuring entrepreneurs with innovative technologies, products and services advancing a circular economy. Selected finalists will pitch from the Circularity main stage to an audience of business, government and thought leaders. Apply by March 24th!
Expo
The Circularity 23 Expo will feature more than 50 organizations embracing circular principles to spur innovation, confront climate change, respond to shifting customer demand and collaborate across the value chain.
Circularity 23 Health & Safety Policies
GreenBiz Group, producers of Circularity 23, recognize the need to provide attendees with the safest experience possible. Based on the latest CDC recommendations and informed by the American Public Health Association we’ve developed the following health and safety policy:
All in-person Circularity 23 attendees are required to provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination or proof of a negative Covid-19 test prior to arriving at the event. We will provide additional information in the upcoming weeks on how to upload your proof of vaccination or negative test results soon.
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At The Recycling Partnership, we are solving for circularity. We mobilize people, data, and solutions across the value chain to unlock the environmental and economic benefits of recycling and a circular economy. We work on the ground with thousands of communities to transform underperforming recycling programs; we partner with companies to achieve packing circularity, increase access to recycled materials, and meet sustainability commitments; and we work with government to develop policy solutions to address the systemic needs of our residential recycling system and advance a circular economy. Since 2014, we have diverted 500 million pounds of new recyclables from landfills, saved 968 million gallons of water, avoided more than 500,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases, and driven significant reductions in targeted contamination rates. Learn more at recyclingpartnership.org
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Seattle Public Utilities
Tetra Pak is a world-leading food processing and packaging solutions company. Working closely with its customers and suppliers, Tetra Pak provides safe, innovative and environmentally sound products that each day meet the needs of hundreds of millions of people in more than 160 countries.
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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.
At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 111,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €78.6 billion in 2021. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S.
The Coca-Cola Company is a total beverage company with products sold in more than 200 countries and territories. Our company’s purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. We sell multiple billion-dollar brands across several beverage categories worldwide. We’re constantly transforming our portfolio, from reducing sugar in our drinks to bringing innovative new products to market. We seek to positively impact people’s lives, communities and the planet through water replenishment, packaging recycling, sustainable sourcing practices and carbon emissions reductions across our value chain. Together with our bottling partners, we employ more than 700,000 people, helping bring economic opportunity to local communities worldwide.
Climate change and sustainability continue to rise on the agendas of governments and organizations around the world with rapidly evolving drivers and expectations. Businesses face regulatory requirements and the need to meet stakeholder expectations as well as respond to the opportunities presented for revenue generation and cost reduction. This means a fundamental and complex transformation for many organizations and the embedding of climate change and sustainability into core business activities to achieve short-term objectives and create long-term shareholder value. EY’s global, multidisciplinary teams combine core experience in assurance, tax, transactions and advisory with climate change and sustainability skills and deep industry knowledge.
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Sponsored: Delivering and Measuring Social Impact in a Climate-Focused World
International Paper is a leading global producer of renewable fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper products with manufacturing operations in North America, Latin America, Europe, North Africa and Russia. We produce corrugated packaging products that protect and promote goods and enable world-wide commerce; pulp for diapers, tissue, and other personal hygiene products that promote health and wellness; and papers that facilitate education and communication. We are headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., employ more than 50,000 colleagues and serve more than 25,000 customers in 150 countries. For more information about International Paper, please visit internationalpaper.com. Explore our commitment to a renewable future at internationalpaper.com/renewable.
rePurpose Global
rePurpose Global is the world's leading plastic action platform, pioneering solutions that enable organizations to take action on their plastic footprints and support waste entrepreneurs to recover plastic from nature.Through rePurpose Global’s impact projects, we are building waste management systems and infrastructure where they’re most needed to fight plastic pollution. We are eliminating millions of pounds of plastic waste from nature every year on behalf of our global coalition. rePurpose Global is not just recovering plastic waste, but have a range of solutions that support brands to take action on their plastic footprints, and operate at the cutting edge of plastic action, by driving collaboration and action at a global scale.To find out more visit the rePurpose Global website here or check out this 4-minute introduction video. Together, we can reduce waste, improve lives, and restore nature's balance.
Rubicon (NYSE: RBT) is a digital marketplace for waste and recycling, and provider of innovative software-based products to businesses and governments worldwide. Creating a new industry standard by using technology to drive environmental innovation, the company helps turn businesses into more sustainable enterprises, and neighborhoods into greener and smarter places to live and work. Rubicon’s mission is to end waste. It helps its partners find economic value in their waste streams and confidently execute on their sustainability goals. Learn more at Rubicon.com.
Minneapolis-based Target serves guests at nearly 1,900 stores and at Target.com. Building on our heritage as a responsible business, we’re constantly putting the needs of people, communities and the planet at the heart of how we work today, to help build a better tomorrow. We are committed to addressing the environmental impacts of our business within our operations and across our value chain because we believe operating a sustainable business and using resources responsibly responsibility will allow us to serve our guests for generations to come. And we are working toward a future where everyone, regardless of their race or background, has equal access to opportunities and in which everyone feels welcome, valued and respected. For more information, visit www.target.com/corporateresponsibility.
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.
WestRock partners with our customers to provide differentiated, sustainable paper and packaging solutions that help them win in the marketplace. WestRock’s team members support customers around the world from locations spanning North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Learn more at
Anthesis is the sustainability activator. Proud to be a B Corp, we seek to make a significant contribution to a world which is more resilient and productive. We do this by working with cities, companies, and other organisations to drive sustainable performance. We develop financially driven sustainability strategies, underpinned by technical expertise and delivered by innovative collaborative teams across the world.
The company combines the reach of big professional services groups with the deep expertise of boutiques. Anthesis has clients across all industry sectors and from innovative start-ups to corporate multinationals such as Reckitt, Cisco, Tesco, Nestlé, and Target. The company brings together 1,100+ experts operating in 40 countries around the world and has offices in Andorra, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Middle East, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the US.
Aqua ChemPacs is the industry leader in manufacturing and contract packaging of quart size water-soluble liquid chemical packs. You can have your brand on this new technology! Simply add eco-friendly ChemPacs to quarts and buckets, add water and you are ready to clean! No cutting or tearing. The entire ChemPac dissolves easily in water. Over the last year alone, we have prevented 36 million bottles, the equivalent of 6,804,000 pounds of plastic, from reaching landfills. Aqua ChemPacs has recently begun operating out of our new, state of the art facility. Advanced high-tech production, packaging, new computer systems and custom software are in place. We are trusted by major brands and Fortune 500 companies. Aqua ChemPacs will help you solve your sustainability objectives and help you differentiate yourself on retail shelves and to your clients.
Aucto provides solutions that empower organizations to manage and streamline their asset recovery efforts. AuctoARS is a circular supply chain software that enables companies to identify surplus assets across the business, automate approvals, and choose to redeploy internally and/or resell externally on the public marketplace. The marketplace connects sellers directly to global buyers who are looking to source quality equipment, machinery, and materials. Headquartered in San Francisco and Toronto, the platform is being used in over 70 countries to help organizations achieve sustainability goals, meet compliance mandates, all while maximizing asset value.
Brooks Running sells its performance footwear, apparel, run bras, and accessories worldwide. Brooks’ purpose is to inspire everyone to run their path by creating the best gear, tools, and experiences. Founded 1914, Brooks is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and is headquartered in Seattle.
Davies is Proud to be America’s Office Furniture Solution Provider. For over 70 years, Davies has been at the forefront of the sustainability movement with our sustainable recycling programs and remanufacturing of grade A Office Furniture Systems from industry leaders like Steelcase, Haworth, Herman Miller, Knoll, etc... into fully customized, "like-new" condition at a fraction of the price of our competitors. We put an emphasis on delivering value and closing material loops because we believe in innovation, creation and waste reduction. Visit our Booth to learn how we can get you into the office of your dreams.
Deloitte provides industry-leading audit and assurance, tax and legal, consulting, financial advisory, and risk advisory services to nearly 90% of the Fortune Global 500® and thousands of private companies. Our professionals deliver measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in capital markets, enable clients to transform and thrive, and lead the way toward a stronger economy, a more equitable society, and a sustainable world. Building on its 175-plus year history, Deloitte spans more than 150 countries and territories. Learn how Deloitte’s 415,000 people worldwide make an impact that matters at www.deloitte.com and learn more about our sustainability, climate, and equity offerings by visiting www.deloitte.com/us/sustainable-future.
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FiscalNote ESG Solutions empowers organizations to take charge of their entire ESG strategy through technology and expertise. Choose from a combination of the Equilibrium award-winning platform, a global advisory service, essential ESG intelligence, and a peer community. From getting started with strategic insights, benchmarking, reporting, and getting audit ready to embedding ESG into your organization’s DNA, FiscalNote ESG Solutions is tailored to fit your organization's unique ESG journey.
Good Filling is a first of its kind automated refiller of homecare, personal-care, and beverage products, running 25+ locations throughout the Northeast. Through our expansive network of high-rise apartment complexes, we make circular economies more sustainable, more affordable, and more convenient than single use purchasing at retail and e-commerce. Simply Bring Your Own Bottle (BYOB), select your product, pay, and dispense: it’s that easy. As the largest automated refiller, we hope to redefine the Consumer Packaged Goods market by promoting reuse over single-use. Good Filling Sanitization Stations offer refills for soaps, cleaners and detergents, while Good Filling Hydration Stations offer refills for cold brew coffees, nitro coffees and teas. Our mission is to make waste reduction and plastic reuse more accessible for all.
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation works to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. We develop and promote the idea of a circular economy, and work with business, academia, policymakers, and institutions to mobilise systems solutions at scale, globally.
Upstream® was founded in 2003 as a public-interest, non-profit organization by a group of Zero Waste activists in the US and Canada. While working together in the 1990s, these leaders felt too many environmental groups were only focused on “downstream” or “end of pipe” solutions like recycling and composting. But they knew we can’t recycle or compost our way to a sustainable future. We have to work “upstream” to redesign the systems generating all the waste in the first place.
So we’ve been hard at work for nearly 20 years - ideating, co-creating and accelerating real-world practical solutions to plastic pollution and today’s throw-away culture. We're building a movement to "make throw-away go away" through business, policy and cultural innovation.
The Retail Industry Leaders Association is the US trade association for leading retailers. RILA partners with leading retailers to meet the challenges of a dynamic economy. Through collaboration and thought leadership, we advance ideas that foster free markets, competition, economic growth, and sustainability.
The U.S. Plastics Pact is a solutions-driven consortium founded by The Recycling Partnership and the World Wildlife Fund, launched as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact network, connects diverse public-private stakeholders across the plastics value chain to rethink the way we design, use, and reuse plastics, to create a path forward to realize a circular economy for plastic in the United States.
In line with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s vision of a circular economy for plastics, which unites more than 850+ organizations, the U.S. Plastics Pact brings together businesses, not-for-profit organizations, research institutions, government agencies and other stakeholders to work toward scalable solutions tailored to the unique needs and challenges within the U.S. landscape, through vital knowledge sharing and coordinated action.
Pyxera Global leverages the unique strengths of corporations, governments, social sector organizations, educational institutions, and individuals to enhance the abilities of people and communities to solve complex problems and attain mutually beneficial goals. With a quarter century of experience in more than 90 countries, the Pyxera Global team is passionate and dedicated to navigating challenges and pinpointing purposeful global engagement opportunities for our clients and partners.
Metabolic advises governments, businesses, and NGOs on how to adapt to a fast-changing global context, while creating disruptive solutions that can dramatically shift how the economy functions. We crunch data, provide strategies and tools, build pilots, and create new ventures that develop scalable solutions to critical problems. Core to achieving our mission is the transition to an economy that is regenerative and ‘circular’ by design.
BSR™ is a sustainable business network and consultancy focused on creating a world in which all people can thrive on a healthy planet. With offices in Asia, Europe, and North America, BSR™ provides its 300+ member companies with insight, advice, and collaborative initiatives to help them see a changing world more clearly, create long-term value, and scale impact.
The purpose of the Biomimicry Institute is to naturalize biomimicry in the culture by promoting the transfer of ideas, designs, and strategies from biology to sustainable systems design. We accomplish this by tackling one massive sustainability problem at a time through our Youth Design Challenge and providing learners of all ages with AskNature as a tool to begin the solution process. We support researchers, scientists, and entrepreneurs in bringing their nature-inspired designs to market through the Biomimicry Launchpadprogram and Ray of Hope Prize®, and we anticipate dozens of new biomimetic innovations will result, creating a healthier world for all. In our latest endeavor, we launched Design for Decomposition as part of a broader Systems Change initiative where we are taking the research learned through industry analysis and working with collaborators to test the most viable decomposition technologies that are commercially viable but have yet to scale, and pilot technologies that convert wasted clothes and textiles into biocompatible raw materials.
The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute is dedicated to powering innovation for the circular economy through products that have a positive impact on people and planet.
Through the Cradle to Cradle Certified® Products Program, the Institute sets the global standard for products that are safe, circular and made responsibly. Cradle to Cradle Certified® is used by future-focused designers, brands, retailers and manufacturers across the value chain to innovate and optimize materials and products according to the world’s most advanced science-based measures for material health, product circularity, renewable energy and climate, water and soil stewardship, and social fairness.
Verra was founded in 2007 by environmental and business leaders who saw the need for greater quality assurance in voluntary carbon markets. We now manage the world’s leading voluntary carbon markets program, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program, as well as a suite of other programs, incubate new ideas to generate meaningful environmental and social value at scale, and advance the use of these programs worldwide.
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition is a membership-based collaborative that believes in the power of industry to make packaging more sustainable. As the leading voice on sustainable packaging, we are passionate about creating packaging that is good for people and good for the environment.
Our mission is to bring sustainable packaging stakeholders together to catalyze actionable improvements to packaging systems and lend an authoritative voice on issues related to packaging sustainability.
Post Script Media is the leading producer of podcasts that explore life on our overheating planet. Our award-winning work ranges from original podcasts to studio productions for clients. With podcasts that examine the intersection of climate with culture, politics, business, tech, and more, we tell stories about climate change that surprise, uplift, and connect to everything.
The Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) is the global leader in supply chain organizational transformation, innovation and leadership. As the largest non-profit association for supply chain, ASCM is an unbiased partner, connecting companies around the world to the newest thought leadership on all aspects of supply chain.
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.
Since 2005, our leadership team has invested in over 40 climate tech startups alongside our angel-investor partners at the Clean Energy Venture Group, prominent venture capital firms, leading OEMs, global materials companies, oil majors, and more.
Beyond funding, we provide hands-on guidance through dedicated leadership coaching, strategic marketing, IP development and active board participation. Our collection of 19 Venture Partners guide our startups and enhance our value with their deep technical and operating experience.
gener8tor is a nationally-ranked venture capital firm and 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.
Founded by RMI and New Energy Nexus, Third Derivative (D3) is accelerating the rate of climate innovation through our inclusive ecosystem approach, which rapidly finds, funds, and scales climate tech globally. We launched in December 2020 with 46 companies, the largest cohort of climate tech companies in the world.
By uniting and aligning committed investors, large corporates, and market and policy experts with the world’s most promising climate tech startups, D3bridges finance and resource gaps to increase speed to market. Our flexible and highly curated accelerator program enables startups to focus on their unique needs and opportunities.
Today D3’s collaborative ecosystem includes $4T market cap of corporate partners, $8B AUM of investor partners (across five continents), and over 100 startups addressing climate challenges across all major emissions sectors. Together, we are moving markets to achieve a brighter, more equitable climate future.
The Circulars Accelerator is advancing the global transition to a more circular economy, connecting organizations prioritizing circular innovation, with disruptors seeking to scale circular solutions. The accelerator plays a pivotal role in catalyzing circular innovation across the globe.
Led by Accenture in partnership with Anglo American, Ecolab and AWS and hosted digitally on the World Economic Forum’s platform for SDG innovation, Uplink.
Closed Loop Partners is a New York-based investment firm comprised of venture capital, growth equity, private equity, project-based finance and an innovation center focused on building the circular economy. The firm has built an ecosystem that connects entrepreneurs, industry experts, global consumer goods companies, retailers, financial institutions and municipalities.
Greentown Labs aims to be a supportive, collaborative, and inspiring community for early-stage entrepreneurs to grow their businesses. In light of that mission, we don’t take any equity in our member companies. Instead, members pay monthly fees based on their lab and office space. We bring in revenue from other sources, including partnerships and grants, to keep membership fees low for our startups.
Raise Green is the marketplace for impact investing in climate solutions. From solar farms on Maui, to water reuse systems in Phoenix, to geothermal power installations in Alaska, the solutions to climate change are taking shape all around us – powered by heroic entrepreneurs and innovators who are not content to wait for big energy and leaders in government to get their act together. And thanks to RaiseGreen you don't have to be a solar finance guru or a billionaire to participate in this frontline work. For as little as 100 dollars we enable investors to supercharge the efforts of those building a better tomorrow – and give them a chance to earn a healthy return in the process.
4WARD.VC’s “Partner in Crime” Climate Accelerator is disrupting the outdated venture industry with the world’s most hands-on, sales & traction-focused accelerator for elite early stage climate companies.
We invest $100k for 5% in CRAZY ASS, world class climate founders tackling MASSIVE problems in areas including Food & Agriculture, Construction & Manufacturing, Commerce & Circularity, Recycling & Waste Reduction, Energy & Renewables, Transportation & Mobility and open up our network and that of our 50+ industry expert mentors to unlock unparalleled growth and scaling through a process we call “networked growth hacking” involving warm introductions to dozens (if not hundreds) of potential customers, corporates, partners and investors.
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.