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Amy Larkin

Co-Founder and Director, PR3

Amy co-founded PR3: The Global Alliance to Advance Reuse in 2019. PR3 drafts standards for scaling reusable packaging that are now being implemented in ten countries.  When globally deployed, the move away from single use packaging can reduce the manufacturing of single-use packaging by 90% and cut associated emissions by 80%. It is a solution commensurate with the gravity of both the plastic and climate crises.

Amy is an award-winning entrepreneur, activist and producer, has been at the forefront of the environmental movement for decades. Her 2013 book Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of A Changing Global Economy revealed the links between our environmental and financial crises - both causes and solutions - and predicted the astronomical costs of climate chaos. From 2014-2016, she served as Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Climate Change. As Greenpeace Solutions Director, Amy led a radical collaboration with the Consumer Goods Forum (400 of the world's largest brands and retailers) to remove HFCs from refrigeration systems across the sector. This directly led to the inclusion of HFCs in the Montreal Protocol, saving .5°C of global warming, and received the Roy Award from Harvard. Prior to her work as an environmentalist, Amy spent 15 years as an arts producer in NYC, Seattle and Europe, including two years as Executive Producer at Fabrica, Benetton's Institute of Arts and Communications. Amy has been a guest speaker on corporate, government and cultural platforms around the world including Google, the World Bank, SXSW, Facebook, the Kellogg Innovation Network, the National Diet of Japan, MSCI, and the Bergen International Festival. She has also lectured at dozens of universities around the world including Columbia, University of Copenhagen, University of Costa Rica, and been a guest on media from NPR, Bloomberg to CNBC, with regular columns for The Guardian and Huffington Post. She has served as Chair of both BiomimicryNYC and the ARChive of Contemporary Music.

Education

Boston University, BA Summa Cum Laude

Expertise

Transformative Change Agent; Sustainability at the Intersection of the Public and Private Sector

Veni, Vidi, Vigilo - I came, I saw, I protect. We must notice our surroundings, both natural and manmade, and take responsibility for our place in the picture—and have fun while we're at it. We will only save our planet if we insert our souls into the story."

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