Carbon180

The kickoff introduces the Year 6 cohort and features startup pitches from companies developing carbontech solutions that use carbon as a feedstock. The Carbon to Value Initiative connects startups with its invitation-only Carbontech Leadership Council, whose corporate, nonprofit, and government members provide market insights and explore collaboration on technology development, pilots, validation, testing, and demonstration. The initiative is a partnership among Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA.

The program covers corporate sustainability strategy across finance and the business case, communications, organizational change, data and disclosure, AI tools, decarbonization, supply chains, nature, and circular systems. Its Energy and Water programs add sessions on corporate energy procurement, grid flexibility, and water stewardship. Listed sessions address battery storage and flexible power; clean-energy procurement amid uncertainty; hourly energy matching; building decarbonization; corporate AI’s carbon costs; critical-material sourcing and material recovery for supply-chain resilience; circularity’s business case; Scope 3 supplier engagement; water risk and corporate balance sheets; AI and water stewardship; and collective action on the Colorado River. Other sessions cover regenerative agriculture, nature finance, sustainability disclosure, and communicating sustainability to policymakers and markets. The event also lists a keynote, tutorials, breakouts, workshops, and an Advanced Perspectives Program.