AIA is the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group – with a presence in 18 markets across Asia. For more than a century, AIA has strived to make a significant, positive impact for customers and communities across Asia. This commitment is reinforced by AIA’s Purpose: to help millions of people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives. The Purpose guides AIA’s decisions and actions as an organisation – empowering and enabling people to understand and manage their health, while meeting their long-term savings and protection needs.

With over 40 years of mastery in textiles and apparel, Alpine Group combines data-driven innovation, technology, and vertical capabilities to chart a path forward for the fashion industry. As a globally connected, end-to-end fashion delivery platform that runs from fiber to garment, Alpine Group is helping drive business success for its clients, which include The North Face, Sweaty Betty, American Eagle Outfitters, Walmart and Under Armour.

Alpine Group brings to market consciously crafted, award-winning materials with agility while elevating standards of sourcing and production. It strives to empower and develop over 11,000 team members and strengthen communities worldwide, including in Egypt, which is home to one of the Group’s manufacturing arms, Alex Apparels – Egypt’s number one exporter of apparel to the US.

Paradise Textiles, a dedicated material-science and innovation hub, sits at the heart of Alpine Group. It combines a futurist’s vision with the agility of a seasoned manufacturer to reinvent the fabric of fashion. Paradise Textile’s current slate of award-winning materials have been recognised by the industry for being less wasteful, more regenerative, more circular and with a smaller carbon footprint. This includes its latest textile-to-textile recycled polyester, GreenFuze Circle, which diverts clothing from landfill and gives it a second life.

Paradise Textiles is also setting up the Group’s first knitting and dyeing mill in Egypt, due to be operational in early 2024. The latest development will bring fabric closer to needle, offering speed to market and sustainability benefits for its brand partners.

Alpine Group is the first textile innovation and apparel manufacturing business to undertake the Future-Fit Business Benchmark, a science-based strategic management tool that aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to enable the business to drive meaningful impact. The sustainability strategy is the Group’s business strategy because it paves the way towards the future of the fashion industry where every thread counts, every person counts, and every action counts.

Alpine Group is uniquely positioned and passionate about driving collective change in the fashion industry across the entire value chain, to achieve its purpose of making fashion fit for the future.

Amyris, a leader in biotechnology and top supplier of sustainable ingredients for beauty, health and wellness sectors, will join UNESCO and Schmidt Oceans Institute to discuss why marine conservation is critical to planetary and human health and solutions for curbing industrial practices that threaten our oceans.

Amyris is the only synthetic biology company to bring sustainable molecules from the lab to market and has successfully commercialized 13 used in over 20,000 products reaching more than 200 million consumers globally. The shift to sustainable consumption remains a global imperative and Amyris is using technology and biology to remake the world’s chemistry and provide greater access to ingredients that are better for people, for planet and for business.

Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, airports, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities.

Bentley’s commitment is to develop and support the most comprehensive portfolio of integrated software offerings across professional disciplines, project and asset lifecycles, infrastructure sectors, and geographies. Our software enables digital workflows across engineering disciplines and distributed project teams, from offices to the field, and across computing form factors, including desktops, on-premises servers, cloud-native services, mobile devices, and web browsers.

Comprised of integrated applications and services built on an innovative open platform, each solution is designed to ensure that information flows between workflow processes and project team members to enable interoperability and collaboration, as well as create sustainable infrastructure that helps solve pressing challenges and improve community health.

Our purpose is to empower Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through infrastructure digital twin solutions, helping our users realize more sustainable, predictable, and resilient outcomes. We recognize that the growing threat of climate change requires rapid, unprecedented transformation. Creating future-proofed infrastructure will play a key role in protecting the environment. Empowering SDGs is our most strategic priority for the next decade.

Bentley Systems employs more than 4,500 colleagues and generates annual revenues of approximately $1 billion in 186 countries.

With its four brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad, the BMW Group is the world’s leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles and also provides premium financial and mobility services. The BMW Group production network comprises over 30 production sites worldwide; the company has a global sales network in more than 140 countries.

In 2021, the BMW Group sold over 2.5 million passenger vehicles and more than 194,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax in the financial year 2021 was € 16.1 billion on revenues amounting to € 111.2 billion. As of 31 December 2021, the BMW Group had a workforce of 118,909 employees.

The success of the BMW Group has always been based on long-term thinking and responsible action. The company set the course for the future at an early stage and consistently makes sustainability and efficient resource management central to its strategic direction, from the supply chain through production to the end of the use phase of all products.

Carbon Clean is a global leader in carbon capture solutions for hard-to-abate industries such as cement, steel, refineries and energy from waste. The company’s patented technology significantly reduces the costs of carbon capture when compared to conventional solutions.

The company is leading innovation in the CCUS market and has developed a fully modular technology – CycloneCC – that is set to disrupt the sector. The company’s solutions will help deliver the necessary scaling up of carbon capture to achieve global net zero targets. The technology has been proven at scale in over 44 sites around the world and it has delivered the world’s largest industrial-scale carbon capture and utilisation plant for Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd, India.

The UK-based company has received funding and grant support from the British and U.S. governments and has established partnerships with industry leaders including CEMEX and Veolia. It is also an investor in the Swedish eMethanol shipping fuel company, Liquid Wind.
Carbon Clean is a BNEF Pioneer 2022 company, has been a Global Cleantech 100 company three times (most recently in 2022), features in the inaugural PwC Net Zero Future50 and was chosen as one of CEMEX Ventures Top50 ConTech Startups.

ClimateTrade is a blockchain-based climate marketplace facilitating carbon offsetting and decentralized climate finance. On the ClimateTrade platform, companies looking to offset their carbon footprint get direct access to climate-regenerative projects around the world. These projects have full control over the sale of their carbon credits, and all entities benefit from the transparency and traceability provided by blockchain technology. ClimateTrade also offers an API and a Widget to allow companies to offer carbon-neutral products and services directly from their own platform.

Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America’s largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 7.9 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 51,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 27,500 people.

Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy strategy to create a smarter energy future for its customers and communities – with goals of at least a 50 percent carbon reduction by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The company is a top U.S. renewable energy provider, on track to own or purchase 16,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2025. The company also is investing in major electric grid upgrades and expanded battery storage, and exploring zero-emitting power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.

Ecosphere+ has transacted over 45 million carbon credits since 2016, pioneering best-practice in carbon offsetting. We are a direct project representative, connecting our clients to a global and exclusive supply of high-quality carbon credits that deliver key core benefits for climate, nature and people, underpinned by first class verifications and ratings. Through innovative contract structures, we provide a route to market for the world’s leading carbon credit projects and enable businesses to scale environmental and social action. 

We are impact-driven, with a standards and reporting framework that ensures quality and enables trust. In this way, we have brought integrity and innovation to some of the largest corporate solutions in the carbon market. With a carbon consequence to every decision we make, this market should be the biggest in the world. We advocate for transparency and accountability as the market grows.

Ecosphere+ is a proud B Corp and accredited to ICROA – the chief framework for quality assurance in carbon offsetting.

Enel, which this year celebrates its 60th anniversary, is a multinational energy company and a leading integrated operator in the global energy and renewable energy markets. It is the world’s largest privately owned renewable energy operator and the leading global grid operator with the largest number of retail customers. Enel is present in more than 30 countries worldwide and produces energy with a total capacity of more than 90 GW, distributing electricity through a network of more than 2.2 million kilometers with more than 75 million end users.

Enel Grids is Enel’s global division dedicated to the management of the electricity distribution service worldwide, through thirteen companies with offices in eight countries, employing more than 33,000 colleagues and around 60,000 people who everyday work on the Group’s 2.2 million kilometers of electricity networks serving 75 million customers. The Enel Group is the largest private operator in this sector, and Grid Futurability, the Enel Grids Business Line’s industrial and technological roadmap, is set to transform electricity networks into inclusive and participatory platforms, promoting the involvement and interaction of all categories of stakeholders, opening up new opportunities in terms of innovative business models, and putting the customer and the safety of communities, operators and natural ecosystems at the heart of the infrastructure. Enel Grids’ aim is to ensure that the countries in which it operates have electricity distribution services based on an infrastructure that is resilient, sustainable, and open to the involvement of the many new players entering the energy world.

Enviva is a leading global renewable energy company specializing in sustainable wood bioenergy. We are the world’s largest producer of sustainable wood pellets, which provide a low-carbon alternative to coal and other fossil fuels and are used to generate electricity and heat. We export our pellets to the United Kingdom, Europe, and Japan to replace coal as an energy source, enabling our customers to reduce their lifecycle carbon footprint by more than 85 percent. We produce our pellets in the U.S. Southeast, use sustainable sourcing practices leading the industry, employ more than 1,200 people, and support the communities we operate in. Our mission is to displace coal, grow more trees, and fight climate change.

ERM is the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy.  At ERM 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.

ERM’s diverse team of over 5,500 world-class experts in over 150 offices in more than 40 countries supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability. Through ERM’s deep technical expertise clients are well positioned to address their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues.

ERM Group companies are engaged across the spectrum of new energy solutions including  ERM Dolphyn – a concept design for the production of large scale ‘green’ hydrogen from offshore floating wind.

For more information, please visit www.erm.com and www.ermdolphyn.erm.com

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds and operates digital networks to connect people to opportunity. We provide financial technology and data services across major asset classes that offer our customers access to mission-critical workflow tools that increase transparency and operational efficiencies. We operate exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, and clearing houses that help people invest, raise capital and manage risk across multiple asset classes. Our comprehensive fixed income data services and execution capabilities provide information, analytics and platforms that help our customers capitalize on opportunities and operate more efficiently. At ICE Mortgage Technology, we are transforming and digitizing the U.S. residential mortgage process, from consumer engagement through loan registration. Together, we transform, streamline and automate industries to connect our customers to opportunity.

National Grid lies at the heart of a transforming energy system, spanning the UK and the US. We play a vital role in connecting millions of people to the energy they use safely, reliably and efficiently. But we also drive change through engineering innovation and by incubating new ideas with the power to revolutionise our industry.

National Grid is pioneering ways to decarbonise the energy system; from building interconnectors to allow the UK to share clean energy with our neighbours in Europe, to investing in renewable energy generation in the United States. As one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world, National Grid is at the centre of a clean, fair and affordable energy future, where tackling climate change and reaching net zero is a key priority.

Patch is building the infrastructure for a sustainable economy by enabling gigatonne scale carbon removal. With Patch, companies can embed climate action into their own products, neutralizing the carbon impact of everyday transactions like shipping, travel and financial services, or neutralize the unavoidable emissions within their operations and supply chain. From an API-integration to direct purchase, Patch is the carbon credit platform for businesses and consumers to seamlessly contribute to trusted removal and reduction projects at any scale.

S&P Global Sustainable1 is the central source for sustainable intelligence from S&P Global. Sustainable1 matches customers with the ESG products, insights and solutions from across S&P Global’s divisions to help meet their unique needs. Our comprehensive coverage across global markets combined with in-depth ESG intelligence provides financial institutions, corporations and governments an unmatched level of clarity and confidence to successfully navigate the transition to a sustainable future. Our data and well-informed point of view on critical topics like energy transition, climate resilience, positive impact and sustainable finance allow us to go deep on the details that define the big picture so customers can make decisions with conviction.

Sterling and Wilson Renewable Energy Limited (SWRE) is a global pure-play, end-to-end renewable engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) solutions provider. The company provides EPC services for utility-scale solar, floating solar and hybrid & energy storage solutions and has a total portfolio of 12.6 GWp (including projects commissioned and under various stages of construction). SWREL also manages an operations and maintenance (O&M) portfolio of around 7 GWp solar power projects, including for projects constructed by third parties. Present in 25 countries today, Sterling and Wilson Renewable Energy Limited has operations in India, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australia.

Urenco is an international supplier of enrichment services and fuel cycle products with sustainability at the core of its business. Operating in a pivotal area of the nuclear fuel supply chain for 50 years, Urenco facilitates zero carbon electricity generation for consumers around the world.

With its head office near London, UK, Urenco’s global presence ensures diversity and security of supply for customers through enrichment facilities in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA. Using centrifuge technology designed and developed by Urenco, and through the expertise of our people, the Urenco Group provides safe, cost effective and reliable services, operating within a framework of high environmental, social and governance standards, complementing international safeguards.

Urenco is committed to continued investment in the responsible management of nuclear materials; innovation activities with clear sustainability benefits, such as nuclear medicine, industrial efficiency and research; and nurturing the next generation of scientists and engineers.

The U.S. Grains Council develops export markets for U.S. barley, corn, sorghum and related products including distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and ethanol. With full-time presence in 28 locations, the Council operates programs in more than 50 countries and the European Union. The Council believes exports are vital to global economic development and to U.S. agriculture’s profitability.

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere and see access as foundational to the future of money movement. Learn more at Visa.com.