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This Event is Co-Hosted by ImpactPHL and Impact for Breakfast
Over 99% of plastic is made from fossil fuels. The webinar will address the impacts of plastics on our climate, health, and investment portfolios. Learn how the expansion of single-use plastics and packaging is threatening our global climate as well as our communities and ecosystems around the world. Big businesses are the largest contributors to this problem, like The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo which are ranked as the world’s top plastic polluters for the 4th consecutive year, according to Break Free From Plastic. Panelists will discuss the unintended risk investors have in their investment portfolios as well as the companies in the Greater Philadelphia area that are turning the tide and making a difference in this space. Our panelists will show how you too can make a difference.
Panelists, Gabriel Thoumi, Brian Linton, and Aditya Siroya, will share their collective experiences and discuss not only the risks in the global plastics supply chain but also the related investment opportunities.
Panelists
Gabriel Thoumi, Founder of Responsible Alpha. Gabriel is a thematic investment research manager with over 12 years’ experience as an award-winning ESG analyst, fellowship recipient, and member of various NGO boards and scientific and financial technical committees. He has published over 70 thematic research reports employing ESG integration skills, a couple of peer review papers, and hundreds of news articles on capital markets and ESG integration. Gabriel is an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches Financing a Sustainable World and splits his time between Austria, Washington DC, and New York City.
Brian Linton, Founder & CEO of United By Blue (UBB). Founded in 2010, United By Blue is a brand focused on sustainable living and conservation. For every product purchased, UBB removes one pound of trash from our world's oceans and waterways. With over 80 employees in Philadelphia, the brand's products can now be found in over 1,000 retail stores, at two company-owned stores, and online at unitedbyblue.com. Since its inception, the company has removed more than 2 million pounds of trash from our world's waters via company-organized and hosted cleanups.
Aditya Siroya, Co-Founder & Chief Impact Officer of rePurpose Global, the world’s leading plastic action platform dedicated to making planetary action simple for purposeful people and companies of any size, anywhere. His platform accomplishes this by empowering anybody to go Plastic Neutral by financing innovators on the frontlines of fighting for our planet’s future. Since its inception, rePurpose Global has worked with 200+ purposeful brands, ranging from SMEs to Fortune 500s, and as a result, rePurpose-certified products now retail in 155+ countries. On behalf of their global coalition, rePurpose now recovers over 14 million pounds of plastic waste every year, and in doing so, positively impacts 9,500+ marginalized waste workers across Asia, Africa, and South America.
Who should attend?
High net worth individuals, family offices, philanthropists, endowment/foundation leadership, investment professionals, pension fund trustees, nonprofit leaders, and anyone interested in broadening their investment horizons.