The Green Generation

What innovative approaches to climate and circularity are youth and partners leading and how can we scale them?

From circular production models and regenerative supply chains to community-led climate innovation, youth-driven approaches are moving faster than many institutional responses, often operating at the edges of policy, finance, and formal recognition.

This session spotlights the climate and circularity solutions being led by young innovators in partnership with businesses, cities, and civil society. It examines what distinguishes these models, not just in creativity, but in speed, legitimacy, and proximity to lived environmental risk, and where they are already delivering measurable impact.

The conversation then turns to scale. What do these initiatives require from established institutions to move from pilots to systems change? Participants will explore the roles of capital, policy alignment, procurement, and intergenerational collaboration in translating youth-led climate action into durable, global impact. At stake is not only the future of sustainability, but who gets to design it.

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Hosts

Ana C. Rold
CEO & Founder
Diplomatic Courier & World in 2050
Dr. Manu Kapur
Director
Singapore-ETH Centre

Speakers

Alexander Curth
CEO
Forma Systems
Ata Chokhachian
Managing Director
Climateflux
Dr. Carol O'Donnell
Director
Smithsonian Science Education Center
Emma Jurczynski
Architectural Designer
MIT
Oliver Moldow
Researcher, Self Assembly Lab, MIT
Dr. Shane Szarkowski
Editor-in-Chief & Executive Director
Diplomatic Courier & World in 2050

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