Sponsors

Morgan Stanley leverages its global reach to mobilize and scale capital to help deliver sustainable growth and long-term value for its clients and society. Climate is core to the firm’s sustainability strategy, and in 2020, Morgan Stanley became the first major U.S.-headquartered, global financial institution to commit to reaching net-zero financed emissions by 2050, and to join the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials. The Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing leverages the firm’s expertise to accelerate the adoption of sustainable investing across capital markets.

Sustainability is a key issue for Siemens Energy. The company’s sustainability program focuses on decarbonization along the value chain and selected other topics such as inclusion and diversity, health and safety, and environmental issues. Siemens Energy actively supports the Paris Climate Agreement and is a partner of choice for countries worldwide to comply with ambitious local climate programs. To ensure that efforts are effective and impactful, Siemens Energy focuses on Sustainable Development Goals 5, 7, 8, 9 and 13.

Leaps by Bayer invests in paradigm-shifting advances in the life sciences — targeting the breakthroughs that could fundamentally change the world for the better. To date, we’ve invested over $1.2 billion in around 40 companies pursuing breakthroughs in health and agriculture. Our impact investment approach aims to conquer 10 huge challenges, or ‘leaps’. This includes feeding a growing population without starving the planet.

By 2030, IKEA is committed to becoming climate-positive through reducing more greenhouse gas emissions than the value chain emits, while growing the business. We are committed to the Paris Agreement and to contributing to limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. This includes a commitment to become net zero by 2050 at the latest and halving emissions in absolute terms from the total IKEA value chain by 2030.

Google has been carbon-neutral since 2007 and recently made its boldest pledge yet — to operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030. Google is committed to going beyond its operations, building new technology to make sure that partners, customers and the billions of people who use Google products every day can be more sustainable.

Our mission is what drives us to do everything possible to expand human potential. We do this by creating groundbreaking sport innovations, by making our products more sustainably, by building a creative and diverse global team and by making a positive impact in the communities where we live and work. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, Nike, Inc. includes the Nike, Converse, and Jordan brands.

At HSBC, we believe that businesses are uniquely placed to help solve the planet’s sustainability problems. To get there, we’re committing up to $1 trillion of finance and investment to drive the transition by 2030. Our target is for our own operations and supply chain to reach net zero by 2030 and to help our customers achieve the same goal by 2050, or sooner.

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. COP26 represents a pivotal moment to address climate change and build a decarbonized, more sustainable world. BCG’s role as the exclusive consultancy partner for COP26 complements its other efforts to help shape the global climate agenda through partnerships with the World Economic Forum, the World Wide Fund for Nature, TED Countdown, the Science Based Targets Initiative and the Carbon Disclosure Project.

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE company, is a catalyst for human progress. We provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating 'virtual twin experiences’ of the real world with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, our customers push the boundaries of innovation, learning and production. Dassault Systèmes’ 20,000 employees are bringing value to more than 290,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries.

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious changemakers define the future. Through new models of leadership and collaboration, we help our clients create growth engines for their business and energize employees while having a transformative impact on climate change and the environment. Our dedication starts at home. We’ve been certified carbon neutral since 2012 and earned a 2021 gold rating from EcoVadis, putting us in the top 2% of all companies.

Wellcome is a global charitable foundation that supports science to solve urgent health crises facing everyone. From excessive heat to flooding and droughts to the spreading of vector-borne diseases, climate change poses one of the greatest threats to human health and is already impacting communities around the world. The world urgently needs a global strategy for climate and health to get to a healthy sustainable future. Wellcome is at COP26 to connect and collaborate on how best to use science to act on climate change and improve health at the same time.

Novartis is reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. As a leading global medicines company, we understand the link between the health of our planet and human health. We have a comprehensive environmental sustainability strategy and our ambition is to be a leader in sustainability as well as a catalyst for positive change.