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Featured Speakers
Kim Knickle
Kimberly Knickle is research director of the ESG & Sustainability practice at Verdantix. Her research areas include ESG regulations and reporting, ESG risk, supply chain sustainability, circular economy, social impact, and sustainable finance. Knickle has worked for more than 20 years in the IT industry, providing research and analysis to help companies invest wisely in new technologies. Before joining the analyst industry, she held various roles in IT services, engineering, and product safety testing, beginning her career at Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. Knickle holds a MBA from Boston University and a BS in electrical engineering from Cornell.
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Evaluating Sustainability Software Solutions
Steven Rothstein
Steven M. Rothstein is the founding Managing Director of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets. Ceres Accelerator aims to transform the practices and policies that govern capital markets in order to accelerate reduction of the worst financial impacts of the climate crisis and other sustainability threats. Steven’s 40 years of experience will be critical to explore the most effective strategies for the Accelerator to focus on and move capital markets towards climate sustainability.Steven has had a successful career starting, managing and growing several non-profit, social change and government organizations. After college he was one of the founding team of Citizens Energy Corporation, the world’s only non-profit oil company. This enterprise, and its related organizations, grew to provide tens of millions of service for low income and needy individuals through oil, natural gas, electricity, energy conservation, pharmaceuticals and renewable energy. After several years, Steven went on to manage a Massachusetts $300 million human service state agency’s programs and facilities for people with intellectual disabilities. He then started and ran Environmental Futures, a management and market consulting company serving a wide range of enterprises in the US and internationally seeking to grow their environmental work. He also ran the New England market for Constellation’s entry and expansion into this market as a successful electricity broker. His career also includes running the world renowned, Perkins School for the Blind, as well as Citizen Schools and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.He has worked at local, state, federal and international levels of government. Steven served on many non-profit and government boards. He has spoken and written extensively and worked with partners in the corporate, non-profit, government and philanthropy sectors.Steven has a BA with Honors in Political Science from Williams College and an MBA from Northeast
Dr. Zoe Chance
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Mastering Influence to Drive Change
Dave Stangis
Dave Stangis is Partner and Chief Sustainability Officer at Apollo, where he oversees the firm’s cross-functional sustainability efforts including strategy, reporting, ESG, climate initiatives, and employee engagement. He is also a member of the Firm’s Leadership Team. Prior to joining Apollo, Dave founded 21C Impact, an advisory firm dedicated to delivering a differentiated impact on business results with a focus on ESG and corporate sustainability initiatives. Previously, he was Chief Sustainability Officer at Campbell Soup Company where he created and led the company’s ESG, Corporate Citizenship, Sustainability & Public Affairs strategies. Dave joined Campbell from Intel Corporation, where he served as the Company’s first Global Director of Corporate Responsibility.
Dave currently serves as a mentor to the AgFunder Network. He previously served as Executive Adviser at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Entrepreneur in Residence at Babson College, and Instructor in Villanova University’s Sustainable Enterprise Executive Education program.
Dave earned his BS in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Detroit Mercy, MS in Occupational & Environmental Health from Wayne State University, and MBA in Finance and General Management from the University of Michigan.
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How We Built This: Creating a Sound Sustainability Program
Scott Shaffer
Scott Shaffer has a track record of engineering execution and partnership his entire career. With a strong focus on customers and customer engagement, Scott creates a positive environment for ideas to nurture creators and innovators. A software developer by training, Scott earned his B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. Scott has spent his professional career leading worldwide teams of engineers of all stripes. He has spent time in leadership positions at Compaq, HP, EMC, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He has been responsible for industry leading products such as HPE ProLiant Servers, Compaq Insight Manager, EMC Control Center, and many more.
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Building an Internal Network of Change Agents
Chisara Ehiemere
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Using the ROSI Methodology to Build a Stronger Sustainability Business Case
Kristen Siemen
Appointed to Chief Sustainability Officer in February 2021, Kristen Siemen helps to lead General Motors to a future with zero emissions as the company continues to take bold actions against climate change, including GM’s commitment to become carbon neutral in its products and operations by 2040. Under Siemen’s leadership, GM has received numerous recognitions including JUST Capital’s MOST JUST Companies, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices Gold Class for corporate sustainability leadership, and Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies for demonstrating exceptional leadership and commitment to business integrity.
Siemen is also passionate about promoting inclusion and gender equality. She was instrumental in creating GM’s career reentry program, “Take 2,” serves as GM’s key executive for the Society of Women Engineers and is the co-lead for the GM Women Ally Program. Since transitioning into her role as CSO, Siemen has garnered several individual recognitions for exemplary leadership, most notably including Crain’s Notable Leaders in Sustainability, Future 50 Tech, and Sustainability Mag’s Top 100 Women in Sustainability. Siemen serves on the Oakland University School of Engineering & Computer Science Advisory Board, where she received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering.
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Using the ROSI Methodology to Build a Stronger Sustainability Business Case
Melanie Chow
Melanie Chow is the Vice President of Mission and Sustainability for Danone North America. Melanie and her team lead the company’s strategy and implementation plans to deliver on the Danone Impact Journey – the company’s roadmap for impact across health/nutrition, nature, and people/communities. Melanie’s experience centers on advising mission-driven organizations on delivering their social impact and sustainability goals. Previously, Melanie was at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where she was a Principal and senior leader in BCG’s social impact and sustainability practice in the U.S., U.K. and Middle East North Africa. While at BCG, she provided strategy and management consulting expertise to the world’s largest and most influential Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) teams, Non-Profit Organizations (NGO), foundations, and government aid organizations across a variety of missions aligned to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Melanie has particular expertise in leading cross-functional teams on strategy development, program planning and delivery, and impact measurement. Before BCG, Melanie held corporate strategy and corporate development/M&A roles at Neuberger Berman and Ernst & Young. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Brown University. Melanie lives in Manhattan and is originally from Westchester, NY. Outside of work, Melanie is on the strategy committee for Hot Bread Kitchen, a non-profit in NYC that creates economic opportunity for immigrant women and women of color through careers in food; the board of the Queens Museum of New York; and the board of the Danone Institute of North America. She is an active yogi and certified yoga teacher, and she spends her spare time traveling. Melanie is based in the White Plains office.
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Becoming a B Corp: Is Certification Right for Your Company?
Lisa Manley
Lisa Manley is Vice President of Sustainability at Mars, Incorporated where she oversees the Thriving People portfolio of initiatives, which includes respecting human rights, increasing incomes for smallholder farmers and unlocking opportunities for women. Lisa joined Mars in 2017 to refine and help launch the Sustainable in a Generation Plan. Since its launch, she has been focused on building momentum in the Plan through distinct sustainability strategies, dynamic communications, strategic NGO partnerships, diverse stakeholder engagements and visible leadership. Lisa has worked on sustainable business strategy, communications and stakeholder engagement for the past 23 years. She is recognized externally as a leader in sustainability, speaking regularly in stakeholder forums and publishing viewpoints on relevant issues. She’s worked in-house at The Coca-Cola Company in the United States and Europe and served as a consultant to numerous Fortune 100 companies – always focused on integrating social and environmental sustainability into business strategy. Lisa has shaped globally recognized initiatives on climate action, water stewardship, sustainable packaging, diversity & inclusion, and unlocking opportunities for women. The first woman in her family to graduate from college, Lisa holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Virginia. Outside work, Lisa serves on the Board of SMYAL, an organization working to empower LGBTQ youth. She and her wife, Christina, enjoy travel, golf, tennis, hiking and biking.
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Driving Living Wages Across Supply Chains
Chris Gaither
Chris Gaither is an executive coach who helps senior sustainability leaders drive wide-scale change and replenish their energy to do the work the Earth so desperately needs. He serves on the coaching faculty at X, Alphabet’s innovation lab, and has supported the growth of leaders and teams at such companies as Apple, Google, Levi Strauss, Airbnb, and Daily Harvest, as well as startups and nonprofits. To all his work, Chris brings his fierce love for planetary healing, his storytelling expertise, and his leadership experience on Apple’s Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives team. As director of strategy and engagement, he oversaw values-driven programs and campaigns experienced by millions of Apple customers and employees around the world.
Previously, he served in senior communications roles at Apple and Google, and he spent a decade as a business journalist covering Silicon Valley for the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. He is a member of the Climate Coaching Alliance, the Humanitarian Coaching Network, and the Forbes Coaches Council.
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Shifting from Extractive to Regenerative Leadership
Katheryn Scott
Katheryn Scott is the lead author on two DOE Pathway to Commercial Liftoff Reports on Industrial Decarbonization and Long Duration Energy Storage. She combines her engineering and commercial expertise on the market analysis for the Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT). Across DOE, Kate focuses on the economic opportunities of deploying clean energy technologies to support decarbonization goals. Her work can be found at liftoff.energy.gov. Prior to joining OTT, Kate worked as consultant at Bain & Company, received a B.S. from MIT in Material Science and Engineering and a M.MSc. in Global Affairs and Policy on a Schwarzman Scholarship in Beijing.
"GreenBiz is your annual reminder that we have the numbers, the might, the tools, and the mass market support to address the existential crisis we’re facing. It’s a thrill to bring together the changemakers in business who are solving wicked, systemic problems, and to create the means for them to learn from each other’s approaches."
"It was a welcomed experience to have purposeful inclusion of topics, presenters, and sessions representing people of color and communities most impacted by environmental crises."
"This was my first year at GreenBiz and I felt right at home. I was truly inspired by all of the speakers and the other attendees. The format provided vital new ways of thinking about our collective roles, new ideas and approaches as well critical time for engagement and building community. I look forward to coming back and being apart of this fantastic community."
“GreenBiz is the number one event for sustainability professionals to learn what leading organizations are doing, identify new solutions, and build a broad network of peers. You need to be there.”
“GreenBiz is not just a conference - it’s a community where seasoned and new sustainability leaders come together to roll up their sleeves and share inspiration to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges."
"It's like Coachella for sustainability nerds."
"The event [GreenBiz 23] convened over 1,700 changemakers and set the tone for what businesses can expect for the rest of the year. It also served as a positive reminder that ESG will not go away. Solving systemic problems remains the top priority for business, and there is hope in the means created to tackle these problems."
"Learned my lesson to ALWAYS bring warm clothes to the desert in February. What a great event and good memories. Looking forward to 2024."
"For many years, sustainability conferences have centered around the why, decarbonization and sustainability concepts, and goal setting. GreenBiz23 conference marked a clear shift to action."
"The most poignant moment for me came when a woman flagged me down in the hallway and said, ‘You don’t remember me, but we sat together at one of these events years ago and your words inspired me to pursue a career in the sustainability field.’ How cool is that?"
Who You'll Meet
GreenBiz 24 will bring together more than 2,500 sustainable business professionals and leaders beyond the sustainability function, including CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, heads of legal, supply chain, human resources, investor relations and others.
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Nearly 50% of attendees are from companies with an annual revenue of $1B+
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More than 200 companies sent teams of 3 or more to GreenBiz 23
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More than 55% of attendees are at the director level or above
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40% of speakers are VP-level & above
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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 2022 Environmental Sustainability Report | Microsoft CSR.
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Constellation Energy
We are the nation’s largest producer of carbon-free energy and the leading competitive retail supplier of power and energy products and services for homes and businesses across the United States. Headquartered in Baltimore, our generation fleet produces enough energy to power 15 million homes and is helping to accelerate the nation’s transition to clean energy with more than 32,400 megawatts of capacity and annual output that is 90 percent carbon-free.
Our family of retail businesses serves approximately 2 million residential, public sector and business customers, including three-fourths of the Fortune 100. We are helping these customers reach their own climate goals through innovative clean energy solutions, including an upcoming, new 24/7 carbon-free energy matching product.
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One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees. Their projects span the globe and are done in partnership with local communities and environmental organizations to create an impact for nature, people, and wildlife. One Tree Planted was founded in 2014 and in 2023 achieved a milestone of supporting 100 million trees globally. We can't wait for you to join our mission!
Prologis is the global leader in logistics real estate. We lease modern and sustainable logistics facilities to 6,200 customers, including major brands, third-party logistics providers and small-to-mid-size companies. Our 1 billion square foot portfolio gives us tremendous scale, which benefits our customers. A leader in sustainable development, we’re growing our energy-related lines of business, including EV charging and infrastructure and onsite solar. We’re partnering with our customers to support their transition to zero-emission commercial fleets.
Prologis has been carbon neutral in its operations since 2019. Our new goal of net zero emissions across our value chain by 2040 includes several interim targets to support our progress:
1. 1 GW of solar generation capacity (supported by storage) by 2025
2. Carbon neutral construction by 2025
3. Net zero for operations by 2030
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PwC
PwC’s purpose—to build trust in society and solve important problems—is at the core of everything we do. It guides how we serve our clients, our people and the world. To help our clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes, PwC provides professional services across two segments: Trust Solutions and Consulting
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Diligent is the largest governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS provider, serving more than one million users from over 25,000 organizations around the globe. Our modern GRC platform ensures boards, executives and other leaders have a holistic, integrated view of governance, risk, information security, ethics and compliance across the organization. Diligent’s modern, integrated GRC platform helps leading organizations simplify and digitize their governance; implement and measure risk manage, ESG goals and controls across the organization; enrich insights with best practices and external benchmarks; strengthen regulatory compliance; and aggregate these insights and data into a holistic view for leadership teams and the board. Our mission is to create a world where every leader is empowered to build successful, equitable, and sustainable organizations.
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.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals.
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 evaluates the carbon stored in our forests and monitors forest growth over time. Pachama has two distinct pathways to help brands meet their climate targets today and create long-term strategies for the future. With Pachama Verified, companies can invest in existing high-quality forest conservation and restoration projects vetted by Pachama’s rigorous evaluation process. Through Pachama Originals, companies can start projects from the ground up, making catalytic investments in the next generation of tech-enabled forest carbon projects.
Pulsora is an enterprise sustainability management platform that empowers businesses to navigate their sustainability operations with ease and expertise. Companies use Pulsora’s all-in-one software to consolidate and manage all of their sustainability business processes, from metrics collection and carbon accounting to analysis and disclosure.
By streamlining and automating sustainability business processes, Pulsora ensures accurate, timely, and compliant reporting and insights, enabling organizations to shift from cumbersome, manual processes to streamlined, automated, and insight-driven operations.
Over 400 corporations around the world trust Pulsora to help them adapt to an ever-evolving sustainability landscape, from private capital firms looking to improve their portfolios’ ESG performance to large enterprises seeking to track sustainability performance across their value chains.
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.
We Don’t Have Time is where the climate conversation continues 24/7—even when the COPs stop. We connect companies, communities, scientists, policymakers, advocates, journalists — everyone, who wants to solve the climate crisis. Through our community, we have an average monthly reach of more than 190 million.
3BL
3BL enables companies to create and share the stories that matter most with key stakeholders.
ADM unlocks the power of nature to enrich the quality of life. We’re a premier global human and animal nutrition company, delivering solutions today with an eye to the future. We’re blazing new trails in health and well-being as our scientists develop groundbreaking products to support healthier living. We’re a cutting-edge innovator leading the way to a new future of plant-based consumer and industrial solutions to replace petroleum-based products. We’re an unmatched agricultural supply chain manager and processor, providing food security by connecting local needs with global capabilities. And we’re a leader in sustainability, scaling across entire value chains to help decarbonize our industry and safeguard our planet. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional and sustainability challenges of today and tomorrow.
Alliance Advisors is an independent advisory firm that supports public & private companies with strategic shareholder & corporate governance advisory services through our global network. We engage with C-suite executives and boards on a year-round basis across multiple services including Shareholder Engagement & Solicitation, Compensation, Governance & Sustainability Advisory, M&A - Activism, Institutional Ownership Intelligence, Proxy Logistics and Retail Outreach strategies. We go beyond, from development to execution of bold, client-first strategies, resulting in winning outcomes.
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.
Amgen
From local communities to global forest ecosystems, the Arbor Day Foundation has been planting trees in the places that need them most for 50 years. Whether your business is new to sustainability or already has a sophisticated plan in place, we can authentically integrate trees into your ESG/CSR goals and drive lasting, measurable impact together.
At BDO, our purpose is helping people thrive, every day. Together, we are focused on delivering exceptional and sustainable outcomes for our people, our clients and our communities. Across the U.S., and in over 160 countries through our global organization, BDO professionals provide assurance, tax and advisory services – as well as sustainability and ESG services – for a diverse range of clients.
BDO is the brand name for the BDO network and for each of the BDO Member Firms. BDO USA, P.A., a Delaware professional service corporation, is the U.S. member of BDO International Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, and forms part of the international BDO network of independent member firms: www.bdo.com
Bristol Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. As global citizens, we work sustainably and responsibly to create a positive impact in the communities where we live and work.
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Cisco
Daggerwing Group is a Top-Ten rated global change consultancy that focuses on the hardest part of change – people – to make change happen and make it stick. Working primarily with Fortune 500 firms, we leverage global teams and partner with our clients on their greatest transformation challenges – everything from operationalizing sustainability strategies, operating model changes and M&As, to major culture shifts and digital, marketing and CX transformations. Using methods rooted in business principles and psychology to tap into why people do and don’t want to change, we break the cycle of change management failure and do change right the first time. We do this by designing and executing strategies that change employees’ mindsets and behaviors, working end-to-end until our client’s people become drivers and advocates of change.
Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) team of 90,000 global professionals deliver world-class customer experiences in service of the more than 4,000 flights that take off each day to over 275 destinations on six continents. With a steadfast commitment to safety and innovation Delta works to connect people to a more sustainable future of travel by leveraging known technologies, investing in the future of sustainable aviation fuel and actively working to advance next-generation solutions. Delta has received industry accolades including the Green Partner in Travel award from the American Society of Travel Advisors, as well as the North American Environmental Sustainability Airline/Airline Group of the Year award from the Centre of Aviation. To learn more about Delta sustainability, visit delta.com/sustainability
Edison Energy
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 nine 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.
At ERM, sustainability is our business.
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.
Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.
Over the last 40 years, FTI Consulting has grown to become a market-leading global consulting firm that brings together distinct capabilities and experts to serve as the trusted advisor to clients when they are facing their greatest opportunities and challenges. FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle—from proactive risk management to the ability to respond rapidly to unexpected crises and dynamic environments.
Our ESG & Sustainability consultants provide extensive support to companies and advisors navigating today’s evolving, and rapidly shifting, ESG-driven demands. From materiality assessments and environmental sustainability reporting, to net zero strategies, supply chain audits, and ESG-related internal investigations, among many other offerings, our diverse group of experts guides you throughout your ESG journey to support a more sustainable and inclusive future for your organization and the world more broadly.
HydroPoint
HydroPoint® is the proven leader in smart water management solutions. Its WeatherTRAK®, Baseline™, and WaterCompass® product lines help companies maximize water savings, reduce operating costs, minimize business risks, and achieve sustainability goals. An EPA WaterSense® Partner of the Year, HydroPoint combines IoT technology, data analytics, and automation to optimize irrigation, flow management, and leak detection. Its solutions deliver visibility and control to commercial, government, education, and community sites.
The International Copper Association (ICA) is the leading advocate for the copper industry. Sustainable development is at the core of the work of the ICA. Our mission is to bring the global copper industry together to develop and defend markets for copper and make a positive contribution to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., ICA has offices in three primary regions: Asia, Europe and North America. ICA and its Copper Alliance® partners are active in more than 60 countries worldwide. ICA and its members understand the time for climate action is now, and we are excited to sponsor Greenbiz22 and share the industry’s commitment to the environment and operating responsibly. For additional information, please visit copperalliance.org.
A certified B Corp, Invert is a leading carbon-reduction company committed to empowering individuals, communities, and businesses to take bold climate action. With a mission to drive global goals for decarbonization, Invert is dedicated to making a measurable impact on our planet's future. We empower action through carbon project origination and financing, sourcing high-integrity carbon credits for businesses, and providing a software platform for organizations to bring employees along the climate-action journey. Please visit our website for more information: Invert.world.
James Hardie Industries plc is the world’s #1 producer and marketer of high-performance fiber cement siding and backerboard and a market leader in Europe for fiber gypsum products. Our company culture is built on providing a foundation of “Zero Harm”, creating a positive impact in communities, and delivering environmentally-responsible innovative solutions to customers.
Russell Reynolds Associates is a global leadership advisory firm. Our 600+ consultants in 47 offices work with public, private, and nonprofit organizations across all industries and regions. We help our clients build teams of transformational leaders who can meet today’s challenges and anticipate the digital, economic, sustainability, and political trends that are reshaping the global business environment. From helping boards with their structure, culture, and effectiveness to identifying, assessing and defining the best leadership for organizations, our teams bring their decades of expertise to help clients address their most complex leadership issues. We exist to improve the way the world is led.
South Pole, a social enterprise recognised by the World Economic Forum's Schwab Foundation, is today the world's leading climate project developer and solutions provider.
Since its founding in 2006, South Pole has developed and provided climate finance to over 850 projects in more than 50 countries that have helped reduce over 200 million metric tonnes of CO2 emissions, and provided measurable benefits to communities vulnerable to climate change.
South Pole also advises governments and thousands of leading companies on their climate journeys to achieve net zero emissions. With its global Climate Solutions platform, South Pole implements comprehensive strategies that help organisations across the world build resilience and turn climate action into long-term business opportunities. Our global team of over 1,200 experts is trusted by many FT500 businesses and world-class investors around the world.
Southwest Gas Corporation is a dynamic energy company committed to exceeding the expectations of our over two million customers throughout Arizona, California and Nevada by providing safe and reliable service while innovating sustainable energy solutions to fuel our communities’ growth. For more information about how Southwest Gas is supporting a sustainable energy future, please visit www.swgas.com/sustainability.
thinkPARALLAX is a full-service sustainability strategy and communications agency on a mission to better the world by driving meaningful sustainability progress, action, and conversation. We partner with influential companies across industries to guide sustainability strategy, reporting, communications, and engagement. Our team of expert strategists and creatives deliver compelling solutions that maximize business and stakeholder value. Learn more at www.thinkparallax.com
United States Steel Corporation
Founded in 1901, United States Steel Corporation is a leading steel producer. With an unwavering focus on safety, the Company’s customer-centric Best for All® strategy is advancing a more secure, sustainable future for U. S. Steel and its stakeholders. With a renewed emphasis on innovation, U. S. Steel serves the automotive, construction, appliance, energy, containers, and packaging industries with high value-added steel products such as U. S. Steel’s proprietary XG3™ advanced high-strength steel. The Company also maintains competitively advantaged iron ore production and has an annual raw steelmaking capability of 22.4 million net tons. U. S. Steel is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with world-class operations across the United States and in Central Europe. For more information, please visit www.ussteel.com.
WAP Sustainability is a global provider of an array of sustainability services to the retail, vendor, and manufacturing communities of consumer products. We specialize in providing our clients with fast and efficient sustainability support, while utilizing leading technology to assure speed and accuracy of our services. Whether conducting a life cycle assessment, ESG Support, product transparency, obtaining certification or verifications, WAP's staff of highly trained professionals allow our clients to stay focused on what they do best, while we handle the rest!
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 https://www.westrock.com.
Workiva Inc. (NYSE: WK) is on a mission to power transparent reporting for a better world. We build and deliver the world's leading regulatory, financial, and ESG reporting solutions to meet stakeholder demands for action, transparency, and disclosure of financial and non-financial data. Our cloud-based platform simplifies the most complex reporting and disclosure challenges by streamlining processes, connecting data, and ensuring consistency.
For more than 30 years the world’s leading companies have trusted 3E to provide the intelligent compliance solutions they need to ensure safety and sustainability—one product, one workplace and one community at a time.
Our unmatched Environmental Health and Safety and Sustainability (EHS&S) and product compliance expertise empowers our clients to improve chemical and workplace safety, product safety and stewardship and supply chain transparency.
We equip customers to capture market opportunity while proactively meeting regulatory obligations and ensuring the safety of their people and products. Clients can accelerate the development and launch of products designed with safety from the start. We provide actionable intelligence that increases the sustainability of products and business processes and improves Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance.
We are deeply committed to serving our more than 5,000 customers worldwide, including many of the world's leading chemical manufacturers, retailers and pharmaceutical companies.
Together we are building a safer world and a more sustainable future.
The Accountability Framework initiative (AFi) is a collaborative programme to protect forests, other natural ecosystems, and human rights by making ethical production and trade the new normal. To achieve this critical transformation, the AFi promotes and supports implementation of the Accountability Framework, a detailed roadmap for setting goals, taking action, and reporting progress towards ethical supply chains. The initiative is led by the AFi Coalition: a diverse group of environmental and human rights organisations from around the world that developed the Accountability Framework and work to drive positive impact in the agriculture and forestry sectors. Visit us at accountability-framework.org.
Agendi develops and implements leading climate and sustainability strategies for companies of all sizes and sectors, whether they are beginning their sustainability journeys or seeking to maintain their leadership position. Our global team of technical and strategic experts provide complex GHG accounting, science-based and net-zero target setting, emissions reductions, carbon removals, risk assessments, and reporting. Agendi’s proven CDP-auditing tools improve scores while assessing TCFD maturity. Our transparency enables clients to define clear roadmaps toward climate goals; many emerge as leaders with complete and accurate disclosures, ambitious SBTi targets, and scenario based TCFD implementation.
Breakthrough empowers shippers with data, technology, and market knowledge to reduce cost, create fair partnerships, and improve transportation network efficiency and sustainability. Our cutting-edge technology leverages a robust dataset of over $25 billion in annual freight spend to uncover freight optimizations and decarbonize transportation networks for the world’s most reputable household brands.
Recognizing a significant environmental opportunity, Camston Wrather has developed an innovative facility in Carlsbad, California, that is uniquely capable of separating the precious metals from the polymers and other materials found in Printed Circuit Boards. End-of-life circuit boards now have a cleaner U.S.-based option for addressing this global problem. GHD, a leading environmental company, has verified that this new facility can process PCB scrap components 90% more efficiently than known extraction methods available in the industry today. As a result, Camston Wrather has the ability to produce verified carbon credits, or VCU’s, which can be shared with customers.
Carbon Direct helps organizations go from climate goal to climate action. We combine technology with deep expertise in climate science, policy, and carbon markets to deliver carbon emission footprints, actionable reduction strategies, and high-quality carbon dioxide removal. With Carbon Direct, clients can set and equitably deliver on their climate commitments, streamline compliance, and manage risk through transparency and scientific credibility.
Our expertise is trusted by global climate leaders including Microsoft, American Express, and Alaska Airlines, as well as by the World Economic Forum, which selected Carbon Direct as an Implementation Partner for the First Movers Coalition. To learn more, visit carbon-direct.com.
Citi’s mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. Through a global network of people, data and relationships, Citi does business in nearly 160 countries and jurisdictions, providing corporations, governments, investors, institutions and individuals with a broad range of financial products and services. Citi has committed to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and to finance and facilitate $1 trillion in sustainable finance by 2030.
Climate Impact Partners, a merger of Natural Capital Partners and ClimateCare, is a leader in developing and delivering high-quality, high-impact carbon market solutions for climate action. For more than 20 years, the company has worked with climate-leading businesses to support more than 600 carbon removal and reduction projects in 56 countries. It creates and manages carbon credit and energy attribute certificate portfolios that enable its clients to offset emissions they can’t yet reduce, put a price on carbon to incentivize change, and meet ambitious climate goals. With a focus on transforming the global economy, improving health and livelihoods, and restoring a thriving planet, Climate Impact Partners is committed to delivering 1 billion tonnes of CO2 reductions.
CSAA
CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer, offers automobile, homeowners and other personal lines of insurance to AAA Members through AAA clubs in 23 states and the District of Columbia. Founded in 1914, the company has been rated “A” or better by AM Best for more than 90 years and is one of the top personal lines property casualty insurance groups in the United States, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The company has been repeatedly named one of the 50 most community-minded companies in America by Points of Light. At CSAA Insurance Group, it’s embedded in our purpose to help our customers prevent, prepare for and recover from life’s uncertainties. Today our home, our planet, is facing significant uncertainties. The insurance industry is at the forefront of the climate crisis. We – and our customers – are seeing first-hand the impacts of climate change. CSAA Insurance Group wants to lead by example and respond to the climate emergency with a sense of urgency and do our part to limit our impact on climate change.
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.
ISS-Corporate helps companies design and manage their governance, compensation, sustainability, and cyber risk programs to align with company goals, reduce risk, and manage the needs of diverse stakeholders by delivering expert advisory, data, and software solutions.
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.
Satelligence simplifies the journey to compliance, empowering you to source deforestation-free, with confidence.
We support companies to transition to sustainable sourcing by pinpointing deforestation risk areas and high-risk stakeholders in your supply chain. We help you comply with sustainability regulations and reduce your scope 3 emissions with a EY-certified methodology, a global buyer-supplier database of supply chain data, satellite technology and boots on the ground. We're trusted by Cargill, Unilever, Mondelez, Bunge, AAK, Rabobank, IKEA, Tony's Chocolonely, and more.
Scope Zero created the Carbon Savings Account (CSA). Think health savings account, but for home technology and personal transportation upgrades that foster employee financial wellness and corporate ESG. For employees, the CSA increases the affordability and accessibility of upgrades that reduce their utility bills, fuel spend, and carbon footprint. The CSA lowers the upfront costs of upgrades with employer matches and referral discounts from CSA marketplace vendors. For employers, the CSA measures, reports, and reduces scope 3 work-from-home and commute emissions. The CSA addresses the annual 2.3B tons of carbon emissions from U.S. residential energy consumption and personal vehicle use.
Tellus Markets creates powerful technology solutions that simplify and enable enterprise climate action. Our flagship offering, Tellus Climate Suite, is an enterprise decarbonization ecosystem that provides a turnkey solution for enterprise sustainability teams. This platform includes three interoperable products for streamlined operation and error-free data transfer: Tellus Sustain, Tellus PPA and Tellus Carbon. Tellus Climate Suite enables users to understand their emissions footprint and take concrete action to meet their climate goals. Our platform combines greenhouse gas accounting with digital marketplaces for users to purchase clean power, carbon credits and RECs, providing the most comprehensive functionality of any climate solution.
To learn more, please visit: https://www.tellusmarkets.com/
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.
The World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global research organization that works with governments, businesses, multilateral institutions and civil society groups to develop practical solutions that improve people’s lives and ensure nature can thrive. Companies turn to WRI’s agenda-setting research, tools, standards and partnerships to define ambition, assess and reduce impacts, and integrate environmental and social sustainability with business strategy.
As a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. Our ambition is to accelerate and scale the global collective impact of business by upholding the Ten Principles and delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through accountable companies and ecosystems that enable change. With more than 17,000 companies and 4,000 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and 60+ Local Networks, the UN Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative — one Global Compact uniting business for a better world. Learn more at unglobalcompact.org.
Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards (WSLA) Alumnae Group
The WSLA Alumnae Group, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is a community of past Women in Sustainability Leadership Award winners: over 95 of the most influential women trailblazers who have become a powerful force in the profession of creating a more sustainable world. The group’s annual awards program, summits, service activities and mentorship opportunities continue to pave the way in sustainability and for future leaders in the field.
The mission of the WSLA Alumnae Group is to create a more sustainable world by growing awareness, promoting advancement, and supporting the development of women in sustainability leadership.
B Lab is a nonprofit organization that serves a global movement of people using business as a force for goodTM. Its vision is that one day all companies compete not only to be the best in the world, but the Best for the World® and as a result society will enjoy a more shared and durable prosperity.
Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) empowers companies to advance biodiversity, sustainability, employee engagement and community relations goals. WHC programs translate corporate sustainability goals and objectives into tangible and measurable on-the-ground actions. Through a focus on building collaboration for conservation with corporate employees, other conservation organizations, government agencies and community members, WHC programs focus on healthy ecosystems and connected communities.
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.
The Intentional Endowments Network is a non-profit, peer-learning network advancing intentionally designed endowments – those that seek to enhance financial performance by making investments that advance an equitable, low carbon, and regenerative economy. Working closely with leading organizations, the network engages leaders and key stakeholders from higher education, foundations, business, and nonprofits. It provides opportunities for learning and education, peer networking, convening, thought leadership and information exchange around a variety of strategies (e.g., ESG integration, impact investing, and shareholder engagement).
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.
Ceres
Ceres is a nonprofit organization working with the most influential capital market leaders to solve the world’s greatest sustainability challenges. Through our powerful networks and global collaborations of investors, companies, and nonprofits, we drive action and inspire equitable market-based and policy solutions throughout the economy to build a just and sustainable future.
GRI is an international independent organization that helps businesses, governments and other organizations understand and communicate the impact of business on critical sustainability issues such as climate change, human rights, corruption and many others.
We are concerned businesses from the natural products industry working collaboratively to catalyze bold action, amplify the voice of business and promote sound policy to reverse climate change. Today, the Climate Collaborative is an independent organization with more than seven hundred companies that have made 2600+ commitments to climate action. Since our founding, the imperative for bold climate action has only continued to grow. We are more committed than ever to working collaboratively with the natural products community and beyond to put our nation and our world on a path to solving the climate crisis and creating a healthier, more just, and equitable world.
Gold Standard enables businesses not only to cut carbon emissions beyond their corporate boundaries, but to tackle some of the biggest barriers to global sustainable development, including poverty reduction, access to clean energy and water, and conservation of natural ecosystems
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.
3BL
3BL enables companies to create and share the stories that matter most with key stakeholders.
The Nature Conservancy is global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive.
Competent Boards™ is the original and premier creator of online environment, social, governance (ESG) and Climate training programs for board directors and senior business professionals.
Our world-class professional development and advisory services help inform boards what is needed to respond successfully to today’s enormous economic, environmental and social challenges. More than 150 of the world’s leading board members, C-suite executives, investors and other experts make up our faculty who contribute to our Designation and Certificate programs. Their knowledge enables us to bring better decision-making and oversight to boardrooms and C-suites around the world.
Although we are headquartered in Toronto, Canada, our remote programs touch all regions of the world.
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.
Climate Access generates the political and public support and social capital needed to advance action by developing and sharing effective communication and engagement strategies and building the capacity of a diverse range of messengers to engage their networks in change. Climate Access aims to motivate people in communities across the country to support strong policies and take steps in their own lives to address climate change through equitable and inclusive citizen engagement and values-based narratives.
Our work involves educating on the basics of GHG accounting, auditing and management, training professionals to meet the highest standards of expertise and ethical conduct, and conducting forward-looking research into critical GHG measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) issues.
Here at ESG Today, we believe that ESG will be the most important investment theme of the next decade. And we’ll be here to report on it in real time, finding companies that either hit or miss on ESG issues, discovering which investment managers are ahead or behind the curve, and helping our readers navigate the risks and opportunities of the new world of sustainable finance and investing. Whether you’re looking to avoid ESG risk in your investments, pursue an active sustainable investment strategy, or find an ESG-savvy investment manager, ESG Today will be your source of news, research, information and analysis.
We Don’t Have Time is where the climate conversation continues 24/7—even when the COPs stop. We connect companies, communities, scientists, policymakers, advocates, journalists — everyone, who wants to solve the climate crisis. Through our community, we have an average monthly reach of more than 190 million.
Carbon Direct helps organizations go from climate goal to climate action. We combine technology with deep expertise in climate science, policy, and carbon markets to deliver carbon emission footprints, actionable reduction strategies, and high-quality carbon dioxide removal. With Carbon Direct, clients can set and equitably deliver on their climate commitments, streamline compliance, and manage risk through transparency and scientific credibility.
Our expertise is trusted by global climate leaders including Microsoft, American Express, and Alaska Airlines, as well as by the World Economic Forum, which selected Carbon Direct as an Implementation Partner for the First Movers Coalition. To learn more, visit carbon-direct.com.
One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees. Their projects span the globe and are done in partnership with local communities and environmental organizations to create an impact for nature, people, and wildlife. One Tree Planted was founded in 2014 and in 2023 achieved a milestone of supporting 100 million trees globally. We can't wait for you to join our mission!
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.