Panel
Net Zero Across The Supply Chain
75%
of C-suite executives in the transportation, logistics and supply chain sectors said their company’s share of electric vehicles will increase over the next two years.
Forbes Research State of Sustainability Survey, 2023
Antheia is shifting to a process that allows us to brew medicines much in the same way that we brew beer with yeast, so we're now leveraging advanced biotechnology to...produce these pharmaceutical ingredients through a fermentation process.”
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Carbon emissions is just one aspect of sustainability. … Our clients have goals around the social side and understanding human rights and labor and anti-corruption.”
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[The operations and supply chain] are just consumed with margin and dollars and spend, and they're leaving sustainability dollars on the table, on the floor, because they're so focused on throughput [and] power electronics.”
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Christina Smolke
CEO, Antheia
David Linich
Sustainability Partner, PwC US
Tony Atti
Cofounder & CEO, Phononic
Panel
Future of Food
77%
of C-suite executives in agriculture said
their companies are carrying out initiatives focused on soil health.
Forbes Research State of Sustainability Survey, 2023
We created this electric tractor to bridge away from the fossil fuel era and into the renewable era, and we are able to automate. And automation isn't about saving money. Automation is about getting rid of chemicals.”
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When you start and use regenerative agricultural approaches, it's unbelievable what you can see. Folks, this isn't all doom and gloom. It's amazing to see how the soil will respond to being treated well.”
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One of the things that I'm really excited [about] is the concept of circular economy, which is taking waste—agricultural waste
or food waste—and turn it into something that is productive and something we can use as a source of fuel.”
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Carlo Mondavi
Cofounder & Chief Farming Officer, Monarch Tractor
Farmer
Lee Jones
Head Farmer, Chef’s Garden
Pilar Cruz
Chief Sustainability Officer, Cargill
Panel
The Electrification Of Transportation
43%
of C-suite executives in infrastructure and construction said their companies have invested in green transportation infrastructure.
Forbes Research State of Sustainability Survey, 2023
We do see [school buses] as a very, very viable option for large-scale energy storage. It's a lot harder to do that currently...because there's a lot of regulatory hurdles.”
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Emissions for manufacturing [a battery electric] vehicle can be roughly twice as high as an internal combustion engine vehicle. We're optimistic that that can come down with increasing use of renewable energy [and] more efficient processes.”
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Ryan Kennedy
Cofounder & CEO, Atom Power
Madhur Boloor
Head of Carbon Neutral Strategy, Toyota Research Institute
Obviously the healthcare industry is there to further the health of the population and of people, but we need to recognize that we're also a little bit a culprit. … Globally [the industry] is emitting 5% of greenhouse gases.”
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Joris Silon
U.S. Country President
and Senior Vice
President, BioPharmaceuticals Business Unit, AstraZeneca
We're making a $20 billion bet over the next couple of years in green hydrogen and building out the infrastructure for that, but also wanting to bring down the cost.”
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Bradford Pete-Hill
Executive Director,
Clean Energy Solutions, NextEra Energy Resources
When we married good business with sustainability goals, we saw great results. … That meant our forecasting, our planning, getting the right products into the right doors. … In the past, it was sell as much as possible into a retailer.”
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Marissa McGowan
Chief Sustainability Officer, North America, L’Oreal
[In the United States] we are being somewhat pulled along and somewhat pushed along by many stakeholders. So by regulators, by investors, by consumers, there's just more and more of a demand for sustainability reporting.”
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Wendy Cama
Audit Managing Partner, Crowe
If you actually care about the environment, it isn't an all-of-the-above solution strategy. There is one answer and that is nuclear power.”
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Bret Kugelmass
Founder & CEO, Last Energy
I always find it interesting when I see this photograph of a polar bear on the shrinking slab of ice, but thinking what's really happening right now is really affecting all of us. Twenty million people die a year in climate-related issues.”
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Dr. Victor J. Dzau
President, National Academy of Medicine
Sustainability Soundbites
The event along the Hudson River in Manhattan convened executives from all corners of business for a full day of talks and networking.
Inside the Event