Headline Partner
BMW Group
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 31 production and assembly facilities in 15 countries; the company has a global sales network in more than 140 countries.
In 2020, the BMW Group sold over 2.3 million passenger vehicles and more than 169,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax in the financial year 2020 was € 5.222 billion on revenues amounting to € 98.990 billion. As of 31 December 2020, the BMW Group had a workforce of 120,726 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.
Knowledge Partner
Roland Berger
Roland Berger is the only management consultancy of European heritage with a strong international footprint. As an independent firm, solely owned by our Partners, we operate 50 offices in all major markets. Our 2400 employees offer a unique combination of an analytical approach and an empathic attitude. Driven by our values of entrepreneurship, excellence and empathy, we at Roland Berger are convinced that the world needs a new sustainable paradigm that takes the entire value cycle into account. Working in diverse teams across all relevant industries and business functions, we provide the best expertise to meet the profound challenges of today and tomorrow.
EV Charging Partner
GRIDSERVE
GRIDSERVE is a tech-enabled international sustainable energy business which develops, builds, owns, operates, and supplies partners with ‘Sun-to-Wheel’ hybrid solar + battery farms, electric vehicle charging, and remote power infrastructure, supported by an electric vehicle leasing and EV solutions business. GRIDSERVE’s team have been responsible for the development, construction and operation of more than a gigawatt of solar energy, energy storage, and electric vehicle charging solutions.
GRIDSERVE is delivering a net zero carbon Sun-to-Wheel ecosystem, to replace the high carbon fossil-fuelled infrastructure that currently supplies the majority of our transport system. The scope of Sun-to-Wheel includes generating low cost, sustainable energy, through large scale hybrid solar + battery farms, distributing net zero carbon energy via world class electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and the final consumption of the energy into electric vehicles that GRIDSERVE both lease to customers, and provide technology to maximise utilisation and deliver the best possible customer experience.
GRIDSERVE is a UK electric vehicle charging market leader, through its GRIDSERVE Electric Highway network, that includes our pioneering Electric Forecourts® and Electric Hubs, which have the highest utilisation of any charging network. The GRIDSERVE Electric Highway network delivers the fastest and most reliable charging for all types of electric vehicles across the UK, and is supplied by low cost, net zero carbon energy.
GRIDSERVE recently launched the Partner Network, a global technology platform designed to help accelerate the transition to sustainable transport across the world, by providing partners with the expertise and solutions to deliver Sun-to-Wheel infrastructure in additional geographies, in the earliest possible timeframes. We are seeking new connections with new global partners with an interest in accelerating vehicle electrification activities.
We are also interested in connecting with people looking to lease electric vehicles, project developers, landowners, land agents, local authorities, and other potential partners interested in Electric Forecourts®, hybrid solar farms, and remote power solutions.
Official Coffee Partner
Nestlé
For over 150 years, Nestlé has been producing food and beverages that enhance quality of life and contribute to a healthier future. We have more than 2000 brands ranging from global icons to local favorites, and are present in 187 countries worldwide.
We are the Good food, Good life company: Good food nourishes and delights the senses. Good food also respects our planet and protects resources for future generations. We focus our energy and resources where unlocking the power of food can make the greatest difference to the lives of people and pets, protect and enhance the environment, and generate significant value for our shareholders and stakeholders alike.
Our business must contribute to ensuring that society lives within planetary boundaries. We have committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions throughout our company by 2050 at the latest, covering all three scopes. In December 2020 we will launch a roadmap detailing our carbon footprint and the interventions we’ve identified to reach our objectives to 2025, 2030 and beyond.
Climate Software Partner
Persefoni
Persefoni is a SaaS company that enables enterprises and institutional investors to measure, analyze, plan, forecast, and report on their carbon footprint. The Persefoni platform provides users contextual sustainability performance scores for their organization and enables them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor as their financial ones. Built for both reporting companies and institutional investors, Persefoni is a complete carbon accounting and management system.
Industry Partners
Autodesk
Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment, empowering innovators everywhere to solve challenges big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products to more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers to design and make a better world for all.
Brambles
As a pioneer of the sharing economy, Brambles is one of the world’s most sustainable logistics businesses. Our circular business model facilitates the ‘share and reuse’ of the world’s largest pool of reusable pallets and containers.
Brambles’ purpose is to connect people with life’s essentials, every day. Our pallets, crates and containers form the invisible backbone of the global supply chain, primarily serving the fast‑moving consumer goods, fresh produce, beverage, retail and general manufacturing industries. Our 300 million assets are continuously in motion, across 55 countries. Our customers know us through CHEP and the world’s biggest brands trust us with the products that matter. They count on us to be there on time, in every region.
In a resource-constrained world, circular business models like that operated by Brambles are recognised as a practical business solution enabling the world to trade more responsibly. By regenerating what we extract and by providing our products via a service, we help reduce both the constant pressure on natural resources and the waste production typical of conventional linear business models.
Brambles capitalises on its unique position in the supply chain to enable customer collaboration and address sustainable development challenges, such as optimising transport networks, addressing food waste and promoting sustainable use of the world’s forests.
Using the power of our platform, imagine what we can achieve by working together.
Herbert Smith Freehills
IBM
IBM is the global leader in business transformation through an open hybrid cloud platform and AI, serving clients in more than 170 countries around the world. With IBM Consulting we use deep industry expertise to develop practical strategies that utlise leading technologies allow our clients to rapidly realise value while also derisking delivery.
Today 47 of the Fortune 50 Companies rely on the IBM Cloud to run their business, and IBM Watson enterprise AI is hard at work in more than 30,000 engagements — this client list includes nine out of ten of the world’s largest banks. IBM is also one of the world’s most vital corporate research organizations, with 28 consecutive years of patent leadership. Above all, guided by principles for trust and transparency and support for a more inclusive society, IBM is committed to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM issued its first corporate policy on environmental protection in 1971 and has achieved demonstrable results across five decades. The company has published an annual Corporate Environmental Report since 1990, began disclosing its CO2 emissions in 1994, and has sustained a goal to reduce CO2 emissions since 2000. In 2021 we announced 21 new environmental goals that will continue IBM’s legacy of environmental leadership, including a commitment to achieve net zero GHG emissions by 2030.
Jacobs
Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Mott MacDonald
Mott MacDonald – doing the amazing, every day
Around the world, we’re helping our clients create new infrastructure for transport, energy, water and the built environment – and making existing systems run better.
All to enrich daily life for users.
We’re entrusted with roles on epic projects. Transforming the rail networks in LA and Sydney. Shaping the world’s biggest solar and wind farms. Creating sports arenas for premier league football clubs and global sporting events. Securing water supplies for New York and London.
Our experts also support society’s needs in ways you might find surprising. Managing the global search for new antibiotics. Giving girls in war-torn South Sudan access to education. Helping Bangladesh’s subsistence farmers adapt to climate change.
Everywhere we work, our engineering, development and management specialists are pushing the boundaries to make the biggest, positive difference for our clients and their customers.
Combining digital technology and sector insights to transform delivery and outcomes. Tackling climate change by cutting carbon and developing resilience. Making sure that projects are socially inclusive.
Collaboration is in our blood. And challenging the norm to create a better result is what makes us tick.
That’s summed up in our brand promise – to open opportunities with connected thinking.
Oliver Wyman
Urgent action is needed to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero levels by 2050. Dramatically reducing the world’s emissions requires a concerted global effort and a new way to do business. As a global leader in management consulting, combining deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation, Oliver Wyman cuts through complex climate systems to help our clients discover new business opportunities, create new pathways, and respond to climate risk.
We launched the Oliver Wyman Forum’s Climate and Sustainability initiative to provide cutting edge research and to convene senior leaders from business, government, public policy, academia, and broader society to eliminate systemic barriers. The Forum’s 2020 Urban Mobility Readiness Index assures us that every city and business will be impacted by climate change. The question is: “Are they ready for it?”
We have also made a commitment to shine the light on our own business practices and have committed to reducing our carbon footprint through a strategy to integrate sustainability throughout our operations and the way we work. We are proud to be a CarbonNeutral® company.
PA Consulting
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world.
As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 3,200 specialists in consumer, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, manufacturing, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists. We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Europe and the Nordics.
Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
Resonant Technology
Resonant Technology was formed in response to the unprecedented challenges facing our planet. We recognized the need and opportunity to make a lasting impact on the lives of farmers to support the growing fight against climate change. We developed novel technologies that work with nature, soils, and bacteria to activate and optimize elements already present in our environment to produce highly desirable effects, in the farm and beyond.
We’re a team of internationally recognized scientists, engineers, nutritionists, veterinarians and farmers with proven agriculture experience and a relentless drive to make farming more sustainable. Our sustainable agricultural solutions have been rigorously tested and verified by scientific studies carried out at top universities as well as on farmer’s fields around the world.
It’s our belief that farmers are the foundation for our way of life. Their success is our success. Their failure is not an option. That’s why we are dedicated to providing farmers and the agricultural industry with the tools they need to produce more with less, to become more resilient and adaptable to climate change and mitigate against man’s impact on the environment.
This is the start of agriculture’s sustainability revolution.
Siemens
Siemens AG is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, we create technology with purpose adding real value for customers.
No other tech company is better positioned to support our customers with their challenges across the entire value chain, to transform industrial and infrastructure systems, making them smarter, more productive, more efficient, more sustainable and always as secure as possible. We provide innovative technologies and financing from a single source.
Together with our customers and partners, we help solve the world’s biggest challenges, improve the lives and prospects of people all over the world, and drive sustainable growth to hand down a better world to future generations. A clean environment, healthy communities, workers prepared for the jobs of tomorrow, and a business that reflects the diversity of the customers, industries and societies we serve—these are our imperatives. We can achieve this because our environmental, social and governance efforts are integral to every facet of our business – it’s in our DNA.
We lead the transformation, creating Technology with purpose, truly believing that Sustainability is good business and serving as a powerful force for good to create value for all our stakeholders. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, to transform the everyday for billions of people.
Smartenergy
We are a Swiss-based investment company dedicated to renewable energy. We identify, develop and deliver green energy assets. We are a driving force in the ongoing transition of the industry towards green energy being focused on the deployment of solar, wind and green hydrogen projects. We are committed to pursuing the potential of hydrogen and related technology as an ideal complement for utilizing and storing renewable energy.
Smartenergy, founded 2011, is headquartered in Wollerau, Switzerland. Beyond our Team in Wollerau, we rely on our own local subsidiaries in all major markets in Europe. Local knowledge and proximity to the industry stakeholders allow us identifying and securing opportunities at an early stage while creating synergies across the entire value chain.
Trane Technologies
Strategic Partners
BMO
Serving customers since 1817, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider – the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $950 billion as of April 30, 2021, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola has been at the forefront of the beverage industry in Great Britain for more than 100 years. Our business comprises two separate companies – Coca-Cola Great Britain and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners – and together we market, manufacture, sell and deliver a wide range of popular soft drinks.
We have always believed that business success and sustainability go hand in hand. We have put sustainability at the heart of our vision for our business and want to grow in a way that manages our social and environmental impacts and contributes to a better future.
We are doing this through our sustainability action plan which we call This is Forward. The plan was developed through consultation with all our stakeholders and prioritises the six key areas where we can make the biggest difference. In each area, we have made a number of commitments that align with the targets underpinning the UN Sustainable Development Goals, providing us with a clear direction of how we intend to work with partners across our value chain.
This is Forward sets out our ambition to reach net zero by 2040 and to reduce our absolute greenhouse gas emissions across our value chain by 30% by 2030 (vs 2019). The world is at a critical point and we must all play our part to limit global temperature increases to protect the future of our planet. That’s why our net zero ambition has been approved by the Science-Based Targets initiative as being in line with a 1.5˚C reduction pathway recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
You can find out more about our work here: https://www.cocacolaep.com/sustainability/this-is-forward/action-on-climate/
Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation and leading business positions to achieve profitable growth. The Company’s ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company, with a purpose to deliver a sustainable future for the world through our materials science expertise and collaboration with our partners. Dow’s portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer care. Dow operates 106 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 35,700 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $39 billion in 2020. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.
Drax Group
About Drax
Drax Group’s purpose is to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future and in 2019 announced a world-leading ambition to be carbon negative by 2030, using Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technology.
Its 3,400 employees operate across three principal areas of activity – electricity generation, electricity sales to business customers and compressed wood pellet production and supply to third parties.
Power generation:
Drax owns and operates a portfolio of renewable electricity generation assets in England and Scotland. The assets include the UK’s largest power station, based at Selby, North Yorkshire, which supplies five percent of the country’s electricity needs.
Having converted Drax Power Station to use sustainable biomass instead of coal it has become the UK’s biggest renewable power generator and the largest decarbonisation project in Europe. It is also where Drax is piloting the groundbreaking negative emissions technology BECCS within its CCUS (Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage) Incubation Area.
Its pumped storage, hydro and energy from waste assets in Scotland include Cruachan Power Station – a flexible pumped storage facility within the hollowed-out mountain Ben Cruachan.
Pellet production and supply:
Drax owns and has interests in 17 pellet mills in the US South and Western Canada which have the capacity to manufacture 4.9 million tonnes of compressed wood pellets (biomass) a year. The pellets are produced using materials sourced from sustainably managed working forests and are supplied to third party customers in Europe and Asia for the generation of renewable power.
Drax’s pellet mills supply around 20% of the biomass used at its own power station in North Yorkshire, England to generate flexible, renewable power for the UK’s homes and businesses.
Customers:
Through its two B2B energy supply brands, Haven Power and Opus Energy, Drax supplies energy to 250,000 businesses across Britain.
DWS Group
DWS Group (DWS) is one of the world’s leading asset managers with EUR 859bn of assets under management (as of 30 June 2021). Building on more than 60 years of experience, it has a reputation for excellence in Germany, Europe, the Americas and Asia. DWS is recognized by clients globally as a trusted source for integrated investment solutions, stability and innovation across a full spectrum of investment disciplines.
We offer individuals and institutions access to our strong investment capabilities across all major asset classes and solutions aligned to growth trends. Our diverse expertise in Active, Passive and Alternatives asset management – as well as our deep environmental, social and governance focus – complement each other when creating targeted solutions for our clients. Our expertise and on-the-ground-knowledge of our economists, research analysts and investment professionals are brought together in one consistent global CIO View, which guides our investment approach strategically.
DWS wants to innovate and shape the future of investing: with approximately 3,500 employees in offices all over the world, we are local while being one global team. We are investors – entrusted to build the best foundation for our clients’ future.
E.ON
E.ON is an international, privately owned energy supplier based in Essen, Germany.
As one of Europe’s largest operators of power and gas distribution networks and a leader in network efficiency, reliability, and innovation, E.ON is building the platform for Europe to reach its climate targets. We are committed to a sustainable energy future: by making energy cleaner and its consumption more intelligent and by making sustainable energy available to all our customers.
Last year E.ON celebrated its twentieth birthday. Two decades of systematic focus: from a broadly diversified conglomerate to a global energy company to Europe’s pacesetter in sustainable energy. Along the way, we exited largescale fossil-fueled power generation.
Today we have a clear focus on two strong core businesses: we aim to become the partner of choice for energy and customer solutions. We provide solutions for the new energy world and make sure that everything we do has a single focus – our customers. Whether they are individuals or families, big or small businesses, or even entire towns and cities. As a company we believe in the power of collaboration and partnerships – the We has no limits.
We are very happy to partner with Climate Action at COP to support and enhance the awareness and activities against climate change in order to ensure a greener, more resilient future for all of us and for the next generations.
EDF Energy
Emerson
ERM
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
Galvanize Climate Solutions
Geotab
Geotab securely connects vehicles to the internet, providing advanced web-based analytics to better manage your fleet. Geotab’s open platform and marketplace, offering hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with a company’s other data assets. Processing more than 5 billion data points a day, Geotab leverages big data and machine learning to improve productivity, optimise fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety, and achieve stronger compliance to regulatory changes. To learn more, please visit www.geotab.co.uk and follow us @GEOTAB and on LinkedIn.
Green by Iceland
Green by Iceland is a platform for cooperation on climate issues and green solutions. The role of Green by Iceland is to promote the export of Icelandic green solutions and renewable energy expertise while supporting Iceland‘s reputation as a leader in sustainability. Green by Iceland is housed within Business Iceland.
Green by Iceland celebrates the partnership with Climate Action at the Sustainable Innovation Forum 2021, promoting green solutions, strengthening international collaboration, and expanding the discussion on climate solutions and real actions. Together we are stronger and together we can reach a carbon neutral, fossil fuel free and climate friendly future.
Do you want to know more about icelandic, green solutions? Please visit our website, Green by Iceland.
IDB Invest
Impax Asset Management
Founded in 1998, Impax Asset Management is a specialist asset manager focused on investing in the transition to a more sustainable economy.
Impax believes that:
- Capital markets will be shaped profoundly by global sustainability challenges, particularly climate change, environmental pollution, natural resource constraints, demographic and human capital issues such as diversity, inclusion and gender equity.
- These trends will drive growth for well-positioned companies and create risks for those unable or unwilling to adapt.
- Fundamental analysis which incorporates long-term risks, including environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, enhances investment decisions.
Impax invests in companies and assets that are well positioned to benefit from the shift to a more sustainable economy. Across investment portfolios, Impax seeks to invest in higher quality companies with strong business models that demonstrate sound management of risk. Impax offers a well-rounded suite of investment solutions to global investors, spanning multiple asset classes seeking superior risk-adjusted returns over the medium to long-term.
Impax manages funds and accounts in four areas: actively managed long-only equity, fixed income, private markets, and systematic equities.
International Copper Association
At its highest level, sustainable development is at the core of the work of the International Copper Association (ICA). Our mission is to bring together the global copper industry to develop and defend markets for copper and make a positive contribution to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. As a sign of the industry’s commitment to meeting the SDGs, ICA and its members have developed the Copper Mark, the first and only comprehensive social and environmental assurance program for copper production. Copper producers participating in the Copper Mark are committed to adhering to internationally recognized responsible operating practices. 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.
Johnson Controls
At Johnson Controls, we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. As the global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group (www.mhi.com), headquartered in Tokyo, is one of the world’s leading industrial firms with over 80,000 group employees and annual consolidated revenue of around 38 billion U.S. dollars.
MHI Group provides world-class technical solutions across the entire energy value chain that enable industry-leading production efficiency and significantly reduced environmental impact. MHI Group’s energy portfolio spans conventional and nuclear power, renewable energy solutions such as offshore wind turbines, geothermal and organic rankine cycle (ORC) power generation technology as well as turbomachinery. MHI Group is also a key technology provider along the hydrogen value chain.
Moody’s ESG Solutions
Moody’s (NYSE: MCO) is a global integrated risk assessment firm that empowers organizations to make better decisions. Its data, analytical solutions and insights help decision-makers identify opportunities and manage the risks of doing business with others. We believe that greater transparency, more informed decisions, and fair access to information open the door to shared progress. With over 11,500 employees in more than 40 countries, Moody’s combines international presence with local expertise and over a century of experience in financial markets. Learn more at moodys.com/about.
MSCI
For over 40 years, MSCI has measured and modelled Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risk.1 MSCI is a leading provider of ESG and climate research, indexes and analytical tools, including ESG ratings of over 13,500 issuers (including subsidiaries)2 and over 1,000 ESG Equity and Fixed Income Indexes3. We aim to help investors integrate ESG across their entire investment process; powering better investment decisions.
- Through MSCI ESG Research and its legacy companies KLD, Innovest, IRRC, and GMI Ratings
- Provided by MSCI ESG Research LLC
- Provided by MSCI Inc.
NCX
With the creation of its carbon marketplace, NCX has reimagined forest carbon markets. We drive never-before scale by opening participation in forest carbon markets to landowners of all sizes while ensuring carbon buyers their purchase is driving real environmental and community impact. A heritage steeped in data, science, and forestry means precise measurements for every acre, every year.
S&P Global
SAP
Schmidt Ocean Institute
UPS
UPS is one of the world’s largest package delivery companies, providing a broad range of integrated logistics solutions for customers in more than 220 countries and territories. Founded in 1907 as a messenger company in the United States, today UPS is one of the most recognized and admired brands in the world, delivering an average of 24.7 million packages and 2% of the world’s GDP per day globally. The company’s more than 500,000 employees embrace a strategy that is simply stated and powerfully executed: Customer First. People Led. Innovation Driven.
As a global logistics leader, UPS is committed to being a steward of the environment and having a positive impact on the communities we serve. As part of global efforts to address climate change, we are innovating at pace to develop and deploy solutions to create an equitable, prosperous, resilient, healthy and safe global community that lives within the environmental limits of the planet. From our innovative work to electrify and decarbonize our globe-spanning fleet of ground and aircraft, to our global humanitarian work through the UPS Foundation, we are proud to be at the forefront of sustainable innovation in our quest to fulfil our purpose: moving the world forward by delivering what matters.
Visa
XPRIZE
Supporting Partners
Amyris
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.
ClimateTrade
ClimateTrade takes the carbon footprint process to a new dimension: our main objective is to help companies achieve their sustainability goals by offsetting their carbon footprint while financing projects against climate change, promoting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and generating a real environmental and social impact.
Our pioneer marketplace backed up by blockchain technology, enables companies to take direct action on their sustainability commitments, selecting and buying carbon credits from certified sustainable projects all over the world.
Blockchain technology brings a unique added value to the business as it guarantees full transparency, traceability, faster transactions and lower costs while providing an improved user experience.
Alongside with the marketplace, ClimateTrade has developed an Application Programming Interface (API): a disruptive tool that allows micro-offsetting to be introduced in any commercial transaction. By means of a simple and quick connection between the API and the company’s systems (websites, online & offline stores), users have the possibility to offset their own carbon footprint during the purchasing process of products and services,and receive an official and personalized certificate.
These capabilities have allowed the company to offset more than 1MM tons of CO2 emissions while fostering more than 50 projects across the globe. And this is only the beginning: new features and projects will be released in the coming months, always addressing climate change and the challenges to face, promoting and enhancing the 2030 Agenda.
Stay tuned and join ClimateTrade in its environmental transformation mission.
Cloverly
Colliers
Connected Kerb
Connected Kerb are one of the UK’s leading charging point providers. Its unique solution combines power and data at kerbside to deliver convenient, reliable charging and fast fibre connection. Connected Kerb work with councils, developers, fleets and other organisations to provide tailored solutions that will help to accelerate the transition to EVs for all people.
Duke Energy
Enel X
Enel X is the Enel Group’s global business line offering digital solutions that accelerate innovation and drive the energy transformation. A global leader in the advanced energy solutions sector, Enel X is the strategic partner that ‘makes opportunities happen’ for homes, businesses, cities and on the road in between, all around the world. Enel X offers a closely interconnected ecosystem of energy solutions, through products and services such as advisory, efficiency, data visualization and analysis, distributed resources, flexibility and electric mobility, which turn energy and sustainability into a value creator. In its global portfolio, Enel X manages 7.4 GW of demand response capacity and 137 MW of installed storage capacity while also providing access to over 232,000 electric vehicle charge points worldwide. Enel X is also a CDP Gold Accredited Renewable Energy Solutions Partner, helping companies enhance their sustainability credentials.
With a strategy geared towards digitalization, sustainability and innovation, Enel X designs and provides a closely interconnected ecosystem of modular solutions that follow the principles of circular economy and allow everyone, anywhere, to create new value through the innovative use of energy. Each solution has the power to turn decarbonization, electrification and digitalization goals into sustainable actions for everyone and build a more sustainable and efficient world together.
Enviva
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. To learn more about Enviva, please visit our website.
Export Development Canada
Formula E
Formula E Change. Accelerated.
Accelerating sustainable human progress through the power of electric racing
Over the last seven years, the ABB FIA Formula World Championship has developed into the pinnacle of electric motor racing and sits at the intersection of technology, high performance and sustainability. And this is only the beginning.
After starting as nothing more than a collection of notes on a napkin for an all-electric street racing series, Formula E has become the world’s most progressive sport driving electric vehicles to the fore in the race for a better, cleaner future.
Whether it is developing the battery technology used in road-vehicles around the world, shining a light on environmental issues we must address, ensuring all walks of life are given equal opportunities or partnering with global organisations to inspire change, Formula E remains the planet’s favourite sport.
Highview Power
Highview Power is a designer and developer of the CRYOBattery™, a proprietary cryogenic energy storage system that delivers reliable and cost-effective long duration energy storage to enable a 100% renewable energy future. Its proprietary technology uses liquid air as the storage medium and can deliver anywhere from six hours to six weeks and has a lifespan of over 30 years, without degradation. Developed using proven components from mature industries, it delivers pumped-hydro capabilities without geographical constraints and can be configured to convert waste heat and cold to power.
International Paper
Kaluza
Kaluza is the leading intelligent energy platform powering the future of energy. From revolutionising billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Kaluza’s technology is empowering some of the biggest energy suppliers to better serve millions of customers. Its real-time cloud platform transforms supplier operations, reducing cost to serve and boosting customer engagement. Powered by Kaluza, suppliers can invest in innovating for tomorrow’s customers and drive decarbonisation with smart, low carbon technologies that not only reduce energy bills, but lay the foundations for a more flexible energy system.
Moixa
Moixa (www.moixa.com) is an industry leading energy technology company that manufactures smart solar batteries and GridShare software to manage smart charging of batteries and electric vehicles.
Moixa aims for GridShare® to manage hundreds of GWh of batteries, leveraging its experience across homes in the UK, Ireland and Japan. GridShare uses AI to learn and optimise daily charging, leveraging low carbon resources and time-of-day tariffs. The software also enables utilities to aggregate and manage large fleets of batteries and electric vehicles in order to deliver flexibility services into ancillary markets and deliver superior customer propositions and savings.
Moixa’s scalable smart charging solution and AI software can be applied to all companies with large vehicle fleets to put managers in full control of their energy use and emissions. GridShare already hosts the world’s largest single fleet of domestic batteries across more than 28,000 homes in Japan, growing by more than 1,500 a month. The company is now using this experience to deliver intelligent, AI-driven optimisation for EV users and fleet operators.
Nasdaq
Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a global technology company serving the capital markets and other industries. Our diverse offering of data, analytics, software and services enables clients to optimize and execute their business vision with confidence. To learn more about the company, technology solutions and career opportunities, visit us on LinkedIn, on Twitter @Nasdaq, or at www.nasdaq.com.
Patch Technologies
Patch is an API-led technology platform connecting companies across all industries with the world’s most innovative carbon removal projects, ranging from traditional forestry based projects, to frontier negative emission technologies. The platform allows sustainability-conscious firms to build a portfolio of carbon removal projects to compensate for their unavoidable emissions or to leverage Patch’s API to launch climate positive products such a carbon-neutral shipping, shopping, rides, and more.
Patch’s mission is to build the infrastructure to enable giga-tonne scale carbon removal globally. In addition to providing companies easy access to high quality, verified, carbon removal projects, Patch is building the online operating system for project developers, enabling them to focus their efforts on improving and rapidly scaling their carbon removal technologies.
Sphera
Sphera is the leading provider of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance and risk management software, data and consulting services with a focus on Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability (EHS&S), Operational Risk Management and Product Stewardship.
Uber
Uber’s mission is to create opportunity through movement. We started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how do you get access to a ride at the touch of a button? More than 10 billion trips later, we’re building products to get people closer to where they want to be. By changing how people, food, and things move through cities, Uber is a platform that opens up the world to new possibilities.
VELUX
Viessmann
Viessmann, a family business, has been at the leading edge of heating technology for over a century. Today, adapting to the pressing issues of our times, Viessmann has developed a portfolio of products and digital services to provide sustainable climate solutions encompassing heating, cooling and air quality.
The corporate mission statement, “We create living spaces for generations to come”, is the goal driving both innovation and production by the 12,700 members of the Viessmann family and its trading partners.
Sustainable “living spaces”, where people live, work, rest and play; in schools & hospitals and urban agriculture, Viessmann’s integrated portfolio puts people in control of their environments and at the heart of repairing the climate.
World Gold Council
Digital Partners
Cervest
WH Ireland Capital Markets
WH Ireland Capital Markets provides financial advisory and broking services to public and private growth companies. We are the top 3 Broker to London Stock Exchange Green Economy Mark companies on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM)*.
Our expertise covers the full range of solutions, including IPOs, private and public equity placements, takeovers and M&A amongst other specialist remits. We have built a diverse network of public and private investors, encompassing everything from large institutions to high-net-worth individuals and family offices through the WH Ireland Investor Forum. To date we have helped multiple growth companies fulfil their ambitions and today the team is engaged by around 100 growth companies to support their strategies.
Exhibitor Partner
WhiteFox
Official Supporting Platform Of
Race to Zero
Race To Zero is a global campaign to rally;leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions, investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery that prevents future threats, creates decent jobs, and unlocks inclusive, sustainable growth.
It mobilizes a coalition of leading net zero initiatives, representing 449 cities, 21 regions, 995 businesses, 38 of the biggest investors, and 505 universities. These ‘real economy’ actors join 120 countries in the largest ever alliance committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest. Collectively these actors now cover nearly 25% global CO2 emissions and over 50% GDP.
In Technical Collaboration With
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
Our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With over 194 member states, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide. We believe that everyone can play a part in ending hunger.
Join us in creating a #ZeroHunger world.
Education Partners
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL)
Eight leading business schools have joined together to acknowledge the climate crisis and collaborate to support business leaders who will act to address the climate emergency.
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) is an alliance of business academic thought leaders, made up of founding members Oxford Saïd Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, International Institute for Management Development, London Business School and INSEAD.
As agents of change and the catalysts for thought leadership in tomorrow’s business leaders, the founding members of BS4CL recognise their role in driving and accelerating business activities towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Their goal is to support climate leaders and organisations by collaborating on research to identify and shape best practices, and by working across sectors and generations to accelerate the business community’s response to climate change. Collectively they can raise awareness of the urgency for climate change mitigation and adaptation, seeking to have an impact through joint outreach to all eight alumni communities.
As a first step, academics from the eight founding schools worked together to produce a BS4CL climate leadership toolkit, which will be released at COP26 in Glasgow on 10 November. In the run-up to this release, the group is holding a series of webinars to share this content, where each session has participants from multiple schools. The webinars, and ultimately the toolkit, are accessible for free at the group’s website. This initial collaboration focuses on eight topics:
- Climate Change and Inequality (INSEAD)
- Decarbonising Business (HEC Paris)
- Global Strategy in a World Transformed: business strategy and geopolitics (IESE Business School)
- Technology and Innovation: transition to a green economy from a business perspective (IE Business School)
- Business Transformation and Climate Change (The International Institute for Management Development)
- Risk management and the green energy transition (Oxford Saïd)
- Climate change and nature, what business needs to know (Cambridge Judge)
- Climate Standards and Enterprise Value (London Business School)
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is a globally influential Institute developing leadership and solutions for a sustainable economy.
Cambridge Judge
Cambridge Judge is one of the eight leading business schools which have joined together to acknowledge the climate crisis and collaborate to support business leaders who will act to address the climate emergency.
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) is an alliance of business academic thought leaders, made up of founding members Oxford Saïd Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, International Institute for Management Development, London Business School and INSEAD.
As agents of change and the catalysts for thought leadership in tomorrow’s business leaders, the founding members of BS4CL recognise their role in driving and accelerating business activities towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Their goal is to support climate leaders and organisations by collaborating on research to identify and shape best practices, and by working across sectors and generations to accelerate the business community’s response to climate change. Collectively they can raise awareness of the urgency for climate change mitigation and adaptation, seeking to have an impact through joint outreach to all eight alumni communities.
As a first step, academics from the eight founding schools worked together to produce a BS4CL climate leadership toolkit, which will be released at COP26 in Glasgow on 10 November. In the run-up to this release, the group is holding a series of webinars to share this content, where each session has participants from multiple schools. The webinars, and ultimately the toolkit, are accessible for free at the group’s website. This initial collaboration focuses on eight topics:
- Climate Change and Inequality (INSEAD)
- Decarbonising Business (HEC Paris)
- Global Strategy in a World Transformed: business strategy and geopolitics (IESE Business School)
- Technology and Innovation: transition to a green economy from a business perspective (IE Business School)
- Business Transformation and Climate Change (The International Institute for Management Development)
- Risk management and the green energy transition (Oxford Saïd)
- Climate change and nature, what business needs to know (Cambridge Judge)
- Climate Standards and Enterprise Value (London Business School)
HEC Paris
HEC Paris is one of the eight leading business schools which have joined together to acknowledge the climate crisis and collaborate to support business leaders who will act to address the climate emergency.
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) is an alliance of business academic thought leaders, made up of founding members Oxford Saïd Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, International Institute for Management Development, London Business School and INSEAD.
As agents of change and the catalysts for thought leadership in tomorrow’s business leaders, the founding members of BS4CL recognise their role in driving and accelerating business activities towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Their goal is to support climate leaders and organisations by collaborating on research to identify and shape best practices, and by working across sectors and generations to accelerate the business community’s response to climate change. Collectively they can raise awareness of the urgency for climate change mitigation and adaptation, seeking to have an impact through joint outreach to all eight alumni communities.
As a first step, academics from the eight founding schools worked together to produce a BS4CL climate leadership toolkit, which will be released at COP26 in Glasgow on 10 November. In the run-up to this release, the group is holding a series of webinars to share this content, where each session has participants from multiple schools. The webinars, and ultimately the toolkit, are accessible for free at the group’s website. This initial collaboration focuses on eight topics:
- Climate Change and Inequality (INSEAD)
- Decarbonising Business (HEC Paris)
- Global Strategy in a World Transformed: business strategy and geopolitics (IESE Business School)
- Technology and Innovation: transition to a green economy from a business perspective (IE Business School)
- Business Transformation and Climate Change (The International Institute for Management Development)
- Risk management and the green energy transition (Oxford Saïd)
- Climate change and nature, what business needs to know (Cambridge Judge)
- Climate Standards and Enterprise Value (London Business School)
IE Business School
IE Business School is one of eight leading business schools which have joined together to acknowledge the climate crisis and collaborate to support business leaders who will act to address the climate emergency.
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) is an alliance of business academic thought leaders, made up of founding members Oxford Saïd Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, International Institute for Management Development, London Business School and INSEAD.
As agents of change and the catalysts for thought leadership in tomorrow’s business leaders, the founding members of BS4CL recognise their role in driving and accelerating business activities towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Their goal is to support climate leaders and organisations by collaborating on research to identify and shape best practices, and by working across sectors and generations to accelerate the business community’s response to climate change. Collectively they can raise awareness of the urgency for climate change mitigation and adaptation, seeking to have an impact through joint outreach to all eight alumni communities.
As a first step, academics from the eight founding schools worked together to produce a BS4CL climate leadership toolkit, which will be released at COP26 in Glasgow on 10 November. In the run-up to this release, the group is holding a series of webinars to share this content, where each session has participants from multiple schools. The webinars, and ultimately the toolkit, are accessible for free at the group’s website. This initial collaboration focuses on eight topics:
- Climate Change and Inequality (INSEAD)
- Decarbonising Business (HEC Paris)
- Global Strategy in a World Transformed: business strategy and geopolitics (IESE Business School)
- Technology and Innovation: transition to a green economy from a business perspective (IE Business School)
- Business Transformation and Climate Change (The International Institute for Management Development)
- Risk management and the green energy transition (Oxford Saïd)
- Climate change and nature, what business needs to know (Cambridge Judge)
- Climate Standards and Enterprise Value (London Business School)
IESE Business School
IESE Business School is one of the eight leading business schools which have joined together to acknowledge the climate crisis and collaborate to support business leaders who will act to address the climate emergency.
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) is an alliance of business academic thought leaders, made up of founding members Oxford Saïd Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, International Institute for Management Development, London Business School and INSEAD.
As agents of change and the catalysts for thought leadership in tomorrow’s business leaders, the founding members of BS4CL recognise their role in driving and accelerating business activities towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Their goal is to support climate leaders and organisations by collaborating on research to identify and shape best practices, and by working across sectors and generations to accelerate the business community’s response to climate change. Collectively they can raise awareness of the urgency for climate change mitigation and adaptation, seeking to have an impact through joint outreach to all eight alumni communities.
As a first step, academics from the eight founding schools worked together to produce a BS4CL climate leadership toolkit, which will be released at COP26 in Glasgow on 10 November. In the run-up to this release, the group is holding a series of webinars to share this content, where each session has participants from multiple schools. The webinars, and ultimately the toolkit, are accessible for free at the group’s website. This initial collaboration focuses on eight topics:
- Climate Change and Inequality (INSEAD)
- Decarbonising Business (HEC Paris)
- Global Strategy in a World Transformed: business strategy and geopolitics (IESE Business School)
- Technology and Innovation: transition to a green economy from a business perspective (IE Business School)
- Business Transformation and Climate Change (The International Institute for Management Development)
- Risk management and the green energy transition (Oxford Saïd)
- Climate change and nature, what business needs to know (Cambridge Judge)
- Climate Standards and Enterprise Value (London Business School)
INSEAD
INSEAD is one of the eight leading business schools which have joined together to acknowledge the climate crisis and collaborate to support business leaders who will act to address the climate emergency.
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) is an alliance of business academic thought leaders, made up of founding members Oxford Saïd Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, International Institute for Management Development, London Business School and INSEAD.
As agents of change and the catalysts for thought leadership in tomorrow’s business leaders, the founding members of BS4CL recognise their role in driving and accelerating business activities towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Their goal is to support climate leaders and organisations by collaborating on research to identify and shape best practices, and by working across sectors and generations to accelerate the business community’s response to climate change. Collectively they can raise awareness of the urgency for climate change mitigation and adaptation, seeking to have an impact through joint outreach to all eight alumni communities.
As a first step, academics from the eight founding schools worked together to produce a BS4CL climate leadership toolkit, which will be released at COP26 in Glasgow on 10 November. In the run-up to this release, the group is holding a series of webinars to share this content, where each session has participants from multiple schools. The webinars, and ultimately the toolkit, are accessible for free at the group’s website. This initial collaboration focuses on eight topics:
- Climate Change and Inequality (INSEAD)
- Decarbonising Business (HEC Paris)
- Global Strategy in a World Transformed: business strategy and geopolitics (IESE Business School)
- Technology and Innovation: transition to a green economy from a business perspective (IE Business School)
- Business Transformation and Climate Change (The International Institute for Management Development)
- Risk management and the green energy transition (Oxford Saïd)
- Climate change and nature, what business needs to know (Cambridge Judge)
- Climate Standards and Enterprise Value (London Business School)
London Business School
London Business School is one of the eight leading business schools which have joined together to acknowledge the climate crisis and collaborate to support business leaders who will act to address the climate emergency.
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) is an alliance of business academic thought leaders, made up of founding members Oxford Saïd Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, International Institute for Management Development, London Business School and INSEAD.
As agents of change and the catalysts for thought leadership in tomorrow’s business leaders, the founding members of BS4CL recognise their role in driving and accelerating business activities towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Their goal is to support climate leaders and organisations by collaborating on research to identify and shape best practices, and by working across sectors and generations to accelerate the business community’s response to climate change. Collectively they can raise awareness of the urgency for climate change mitigation and adaptation, seeking to have an impact through joint outreach to all eight alumni communities.
As a first step, academics from the eight founding schools worked together to produce a BS4CL climate leadership toolkit, which will be released at COP26 in Glasgow on 10 November. In the run-up to this release, the group is holding a series of webinars to share this content, where each session has participants from multiple schools. The webinars, and ultimately the toolkit, are accessible for free at the group’s website. This initial collaboration focuses on eight topics:
- Climate Change and Inequality (INSEAD)
- Decarbonising Business (HEC Paris)
- Global Strategy in a World Transformed: business strategy and geopolitics (IESE Business School)
- Technology and Innovation: transition to a green economy from a business perspective (IE Business School)
- Business Transformation and Climate Change (The International Institute for Management Development)
- Risk management and the green energy transition (Oxford Saïd)
- Climate change and nature, what business needs to know (Cambridge Judge)
- Climate Standards and Enterprise Value (London Business School)
Oxford Saïd
Oxford Saïd is one of the eight leading business schools which have joined together to acknowledge the climate crisis and collaborate to support business leaders who will act to address the climate emergency.
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) is an alliance of business academic thought leaders, made up of founding members Oxford Saïd Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, International Institute for Management Development, London Business School and INSEAD.
As agents of change and the catalysts for thought leadership in tomorrow’s business leaders, the founding members of BS4CL recognise their role in driving and accelerating business activities towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Their goal is to support climate leaders and organisations by collaborating on research to identify and shape best practices, and by working across sectors and generations to accelerate the business community’s response to climate change. Collectively they can raise awareness of the urgency for climate change mitigation and adaptation, seeking to have an impact through joint outreach to all eight alumni communities.
As a first step, academics from the eight founding schools worked together to produce a BS4CL climate leadership toolkit, which will be released at COP26 in Glasgow on 10 November. In the run-up to this release, the group is holding a series of webinars to share this content, where each session has participants from multiple schools. The webinars, and ultimately the toolkit, are accessible for free at the group’s website. This initial collaboration focuses on eight topics:
- Climate Change and Inequality (INSEAD)
- Decarbonising Business (HEC Paris)
- Global Strategy in a World Transformed: business strategy and geopolitics (IESE Business School)
- Technology and Innovation: transition to a green economy from a business perspective (IE Business School)
- Business Transformation and Climate Change (The International Institute for Management Development)
- Risk management and the green energy transition (Oxford Saïd)
- Climate change and nature, what business needs to know (Cambridge Judge)
- Climate Standards and Enterprise Value (London Business School)
The International Institute for Management Development
The International Institute for Management Development is one of the eight leading business schools which have joined together to acknowledge the climate crisis and collaborate to support business leaders who will act to address the climate emergency.
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) is an alliance of business academic thought leaders, made up of founding members Oxford Saïd Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, International Institute for Management Development, London Business School and INSEAD.
As agents of change and the catalysts for thought leadership in tomorrow’s business leaders, the founding members of BS4CL recognise their role in driving and accelerating business activities towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Their goal is to support climate leaders and organisations by collaborating on research to identify and shape best practices, and by working across sectors and generations to accelerate the business community’s response to climate change. Collectively they can raise awareness of the urgency for climate change mitigation and adaptation, seeking to have an impact through joint outreach to all eight alumni communities.
As a first step, academics from the eight founding schools worked together to produce a BS4CL climate leadership toolkit, which will be released at COP26 in Glasgow on 10 November. In the run-up to this release, the group is holding a series of webinars to share this content, where each session has participants from multiple schools. The webinars, and ultimately the toolkit, are accessible for free at the group’s website. This initial collaboration focuses on eight topics:
- Climate Change and Inequality (INSEAD)
- Decarbonising Business (HEC Paris)
- Global Strategy in a World Transformed: business strategy and geopolitics (IESE Business School)
- Technology and Innovation: transition to a green economy from a business perspective (IE Business School)
- Business Transformation and Climate Change (The International Institute for Management Development)
- Risk management and the green energy transition (Oxford Saïd)
- Climate change and nature, what business needs to know (Cambridge Judge)
- Climate Standards and Enterprise Value (London Business School)
Institutional Partners
ADE
The ADE is the leading trade association for decentralised energy, representing more than 140 interested parties from across the industrial, commercial and public sectors.
The ADE is bringing energy together to advocate on the priorities for the UK in achieving net zero.
We are driving the decarbonisation of heat, championing the role of industry in the green transition and pushing for UK homes, places of work and public services to be energy efficient and smart.
We engage with government and key decision makers to advocate for decentralised energy. We provide a conduit between the sector and government, providing members with insight into policy developments and government with insight based on our members’ experience.
ambicionCOP26
ambiciónCOP26 is the virtual platform for the participation of civil society in Spain and Latin America in COP26, contributing with the sum of voices to the success of the Glasgow Climate Summit.
It is an initiative that has been launched thanks to the cooperation of a group of public and private entities (see below), but is open to the collaboration of any entity or person.
AVERE (The European Association for Electromobility)
AVERE (The European Association for Electromobility) is the European association that promotes electromobility and sustainable transport across Europe.
Our Members consist of National Associations supporting and encouraging the use of Electric Vehicles and electromobility across Europe. We currently have active members in 17 European countries, notably some of the most successful EV countries like Norway, France, The Netherlands and Belgium.
Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens
The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens is a Quasi-International Organization based in Vienna, Austria. The Centre was established in January 2018 and is co-chaired by Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the UN (2007 – 2016) and by Heinz Fischer, 11th President of the Republic of Austria (2004 – 2016).
The Ban Ki-moon Centre empowers women and youth to live in a peaceful and prosperous world. We strive for a world based on universal respect for human rights, regardless of age, gender, identity, religion, and nationality, where sustainable development is achieved through global citizenship in shared responsibility, understanding and empathy. The Centre uses its expertise and network to work for peace, poverty eradication, empowerment of youth and women, justice and human rights worldwide.
BSR
BSR™ is a global nonprofit organization that works with its network of more than 250 member companies and other partners to build a just and sustainable world. From its offices in Asia, Europe, and North America, BSR™ develops sustainable business strategies and solutions through consulting, research, and cross-sector collaboration. Our mission is to work with business to create a just and sustainable world. We envision a world in which everyone can lead a prosperous and dignified life within the boundaries of the Earth’s natural resources.
Business for Nature
Business for Nature is a global coalition that brings together business and conservation organizations and forward-thinking companies. Together, we demonstrate and amplify a credible business voice on nature calling for governments to adopt policies to reverse nature loss in this decade.
We work with more than 50 international and national partners and a diverse group of businesses from all sectors, sizes and geographies. We encourage companies to commit and act to reverse nature loss, and advocate for greater policy ambition. Our Strategic Advisory Group ensures our work is grounded in real business and act as ambassadors for the coalition.
CDP
CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action.
CDSB
Climate Disclosure Standards Board is an international consortium of business and environmental NGOs. We are committed to advancing and aligning the global mainstream corporate reporting model to equate natural capital with financial capital.
CEEP
Central Europe Energy Partners (CEEP) represents the interests of the energy and energy-intensive companies from Central Europe in order to promote balanced energy transition in accordance with technological neutrality principle, enhance regional cooperation and strengthen the region’s energy security within the framework of EU energy and climate policy.
Ceres
Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit organization working with the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy. Through powerful networks and advocacy, Ceres tackles the world’s biggest sustainability challenges, including the climate crisis, water scarcity and pollution, and inequitable workplaces. Our mission: Ceres is transforming the economy to build a sustainable future for people and the planet.
CIWM
Founded in 1898, CIWM (the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) is the leading professional membership organisation for individuals in the sustainability, resources and waste management sector. CIWM represents and supports over 5,000 individuals and 250 Affiliated Organisations across the UK and overseas.
At CIWM, membership means more for professional life: more knowledge, more connections, more resources, more representation, more partnerships and, ultimately, more potential.
Climate Bonds Initiative
Climate Bonds Initiative is an international investor-focused not-for-profit organisation working to mobilise capital markets for climate action. The Climate Bonds Initiative carries out market analysis, policy research, market development; advises governments and regulators; and administers an international Standard & Certification Scheme for best practice in green bonds issuance.
Climate Central
An independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the public.
CMIA
The Climate Markets and Investment Association (CMIA) is an independent not for profit trade association that has been providing leadership from the private sector in the delivery of climate investment policy and market mechanisms since 2008. Through climate policy, finance and investment, we are leading a coalition of private sector actors to mobilise the trillions that will enable a transition to a climate-resilient, low-carbon, sustainable economy.
Connect4Climate
Connect4Climate is a global partnership program launched by the World Bank Group and the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, together with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, that takes on climate change by supporting ambitious leadership, promoting transformative solutions and empowering collective action.
The Connect4Climate community connects about 500 partners around the world including civil society groups, media networks, international organizations, academic institutions, youth groups, and the private sector.
Earth Day
EARTHDAY.ORG’s mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day in 1970, EARTHDAY.ORG is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 150,000 partners in over 192 countries to drive positive action for our planet.
EIC
The EIC brings industry and innovators together. As a not-for-profit organisation, we operate a shared platform and provide an open environment for our partners and community to innovate together. Improving the quality of people’s lives is at the core of what we do, and by working together we can achieve a safe, affordable, net zero future for everyone.
EIC
The EIC is the leading Trade Association providing dedicated services to help members understand, identify and pursue business opportunities globally. Established in 1943, the EIC is a not-for-profit organisation with a membership of over 650 companies who deliver goods and services to the energy industries worldwide.
Energy Institute
The Energy Institute is the not-for-profit chartered professional membership body bringing together expertise to tackle urgent global challenges. Responding to the climate emergency while meeting the energy needs of the world’s growing population calls for energy to be better understood, managed and valued. This ambition is at the heart of our social purpose.
We are a global, independent network of professionals spanning the world of energy, convening and facilitating debate, championing evidence and sharing fresh ideas, giving voice to issues of concern and where necessary challenging the industry we work with.
Environmental Services Association
We started life as the National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors in 1968, becoming the Environmental Services Association in 1996, in recognition – nearly a quarter of a century ago – that collecting waste is only the first step.
ESA members are part of a complex chain of activities that deliver quality secondary materials for new, sustainable, products as well as renewable energy and fuel supplies.
Eurocities
European Energy Research Alliance
The European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) is an association of European public research centres and universities active in low-carbon energy research. EERA pursues the mission of catalysing European energy research for a climate-neutral society by 2050. Bringing together more than 250 organisations from 30 countries, EERA is Europe’s largest energy research community. EERA coordinates its research activities through 18 Joint Programmes and is a key player in the European Union’s Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan.
Eurosif
Eurosif is the leading European association for the promotion and advancement of sustainable and responsible investment across Europe, for the benefit of its members.
FIEC
FIEC is the voice of the European construction industry
Created in 1905, FIEC aisbl stands for the European Construction Industry Federation.
Through its 33 national member federations in 29 European countries (25 EU & Norway, Switzerland, Ukraine, Turkey), it represents construction enterprises of all sizes (from one person craftsmen and SMEs through to large international firms), from all building and civil engineering specialties, engaged in all kinds of working methods (whether operating as main or sub-contractors).
Thanks to its wide-ranging representativeness FIEC is the officially recognised Social Partner, representing employers, in the European Sectoral Social Dialogue “Construction”.
Whether it is preparing the ground for future growth through investing in infrastructure, dealing with the threat of climate change, adapting buildings to make them more energy efficient or planning cities to meet the changing needs of future generations, the construction sector is the fundamental partner to make the future a reality.
The sustainable Europe of tomorrow cannot be achieved without the direct involvement of the construction industry. In fact, the construction industry is at the heart of our life: construction enterprises and their workers build the homes we live in, the roads on which we travel and the buildings we work or learn in. Without the construction industry the EU cannot respond to its main challenges : competitiveness, youth unemployment, digital economy, urban regeneration, energy efficiency and energy poverty, circular economy, affordable housing, climate change, mobility and connected infrastructure, etc.
Moreover, the construction sector is a fundamental component of Europe’s economic growth and a major source of employment. It generates about 10% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the EU and provides almost 13 million direct jobs.
FIEC is the key partner for #construction at European level.
