Green Business Building

Green Business Building Summits

McKinsey’s Green Business Building Summits are unique forums focused on building and scaling green business ventures and new technologies through presentations, roundtables and cross-sector networking events with founders, funders and corporate leaders.

McKinsey has committed to being the largest private sector catalyst for decarbonization, and we are excited to support leaders of fast-scaling companies on their journeys. With these summits, we aspire to address key challenges and showcase pivotal successes green business builders face along their paths to scaling up.

Schedule of events

Green Business Building summits and regional forums take place around the world. Our schedule of confirmed events is listed below. Please recheck this page for updates regarding future events.

Upcoming Events

  • May 19, 2024: China forum in Shanghai
  • May 22-23, 2024: Africa forum in Nairobi
  • June 17-18, 2024: Global Summit in Stockholm
  • Central Europe forum in Warsaw, Poland
  • Abu Dhabi

Past Events

  • February 12-13, 2024: North American Summit in San Francisco
  • March 11-12, 2024: Germany forum in Berlin
  • Our 2023 events included the Global Summits in Stockholm, North American Summit in San Francisco, and Forums in Finland and the Baltics, Germany, France, China, Italy, Australia, India, Chile, Brazil, London, and Benelux.

Who attends

The summits bring senior leaders across a number of different organization types and industries together—in person—to address critical challenges and showcase pivotal successes faced by green business builders at various stages of their journey. Examples of past attendees include:

  • leading green tech disruptors and unicorns
  • established companies with ambitious green growth agendas
  • leading sustainability investors
  • leaders of large companies interested in climate solutions and offtake agreements

Highlights from previous summits

McKinsey's Green Business Building Global Summit 2023 in Stockholm gathered over 500 business leaders to share ideas and best practices to keep scaling while also differentiating themselves from the increasingly intense competition.
Seven capabilities to win the green scale-up race through out-execution
Blog Post
Seven capabilities to win the green scale-up race through out-execution
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To reach net zero by 2050, McKinsey estimates that the cumulative capital spending on physical assets after 2021 will total about $275 trillion.
The road to net zero: Preparing for growth in green business building
Blog Post
The road to net zero: Preparing for growth in green business building
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Growth in key climate technologies, including electric vehicles (EVs) as well as wind and solar power, is helping accelerate decarbonization efforts worldwide.
Building green businesses to speed the transition to net zero
Blog Post
Building green businesses to speed the transition to net zero
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Global attempts to move to a 1.5° pathway rely on our collective ability to scale up new green businesses—and to do so quickly. What exactly will it take to make this happen?

Featured Insights

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Article
Full throttle on net zero: Creating value in the face of uncertainty
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To thrive amid shocks to the net-zero economy, leaders are shifting strategies to position themselves to win when the skies clear up.
Digital image of a futuristic sustainable city on a cube of land floating over a solid field of light blue. Multiple cubes of land with alternative energy sources float nearby. The alternative energies include, solar, wind turbines, nuclear, and hydrogen.
Report
What would it take to scale critical climate technologies?
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Many of the climate technologies needed to achieve deep decarbonization already exist. The challenge now is accelerating innovation and scale-up to achieve technical and commercial breakthroughs.
Six circles of increasing sizes layered over one another in a paper cut out style. Each circle has a mix of carbon removal solutions represented on it including direct air capture fans, biomass carbon remediation trucks and factory storage, biochar tractor, mangroves, kelp buoys, and forest restoration. Business people walk around buildings are also interspersed though the scenes and friendly clouds float by.
Report
Carbon removals: How to scale a new gigaton industry
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CO2 removal (CDR) capacity is far from the gigaton scale needed to round out businesses’ net-zero efforts by 2050. We explore a mature CDR market’s potential and possible first-mover advantages.
Henrik Henriksson speaking at Green Business Building Summit - screen capture
Interview
Henrik Henriksson: Rapidly scaling a green steel start-up
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Henrik Henriksson, CEO of H2 Green Steel, talks about the challenges and successes in founding a green business start-up and out-executing peers in a competitive environment.
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Article
Decarbonize and create value: How incumbents can tackle the steep challenge
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While the task is not easy, incumbents—including those in hard-to-abate sectors—can decarbonize and generate value through a series of key actions.
Peter Carlsson
Interview
Giga-scaling low-carbon batteries: A chat with Northvolt CEO Peter Carlsson
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As global demand for low-carbon batteries accelerates, Northvolt’s CEO plans to scale a sustainable and profitable business at record speed.
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Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
How to accelerate innovation in new green business building
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Companies that want to scale quickly must cultivate deep market knowledge and a culture that embraces learning through failure.
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Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
How a Spanish scale-up became a leader in green energy
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Holaluz cofounder Carlota Pi Amorós details her ambition for the start-up to become a decentralized energy-as-a-service green-tech company.
illustration Ram Ramachander
Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
Launching net-zero businesses: Lessons from a digital leader
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Many companies are hustling to start low-carbon businesses. Ram Ramachander works at the speed of a start-up and with the backing of a corporation.
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