The Sustainable Markets Initiative

This World Space Week, the SMI's Astra Carta Ambassadors are speaking to the relationship between Earth and space, bringing that vision of responsible and sustainable space exploration, development and cooperation to life
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Shipping carries more than 80% of global trade by volume, yet accounts for only about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, a share that could rise above 10% by 2050 if trade growth continues without intervention
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🌎 Fifty-six member states
🌎 Every inhabited continent and ocean

In November, the 28th CHOGM will gather global leaders from across the Commonwealth in St. John's, Antigua & Barbuda
We are proud to be the Exclusive Sustainability Partner of the Commonwealth Business Forum 2026

Africa's next wave of clean energy innovators are invited to step into the spotlight
Now in its second year, the Africa Energy Entrepreneurship Award is open for entries!
Learn more: octopusenergygeneration.com/african-entrep…

As a Silver partner of the @SportPosSummit 2026, our Sport Pathfinder convened a virtual roundtable, live translated into 8 languages, focused around making sport travel default sustainable, bringing together voices from across the sporting ecosystem

The Sustainable Markets Initiative has been named Exclusive Sustainability Partner of the Commonwealth Business Forum 2026, one of CHOGM's Official Forums
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Fan and athlete travel is one of sport's hardest sustainability problems, because performance, experience and emissions all have to be solved for at once
On 7 October, the SMI joins the Sport Positive Summit 2026 for a roundtable confronting that problem directly
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His Majesty King Charles III convened senior leaders, government officials, the SMI and some of its members at Dumfries House this week, to discuss how AI can be developed safely and in service of people and the planet.
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Today, The Earthshot Prize announced its sixth cohort of Finalists: 15 solutions spanning Indigenous and community-led innovation to pioneering businesses, each working to repair our planet at scale
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At #CHOGM2026, Commonwealth leaders and the next generation of talent will take to the field in Antigua & Barbuda for the ‘One Commonwealth, One Team’ cricket series.
Supported by #TheSMI, using the power of sport to accelerate collaboration towards the sustainable transition.

The SMI attended a Fisheries Improvement Programme review in Kerala last week, convening representatives from government, science, industry and community to discuss fisheries management, traceability, and sustainable seafood production #SMITerraCarta

At the UK Fusion Forum on September 15, Jennifer Jordan-Saifi, CEO of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, will moderate a panel, featuring SMI members @AECOM, @TokamakEnergy, @typeoneenergy and @BarclaysUK .

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Sam Adlen, Co-CEO of Space Solar: SMI leaders don't just drive change inside their own organizations, they influence governments and entire sectors.
Sustainability needs everyone, but it moves faster with vision from the top.

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Operation Blue Skies is contrail avoidance moving from report to reality
The world's first state-backed, airspace-scale trial builds on the 2030 Sustainable Aviation Goals report
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Fusion energy has been over half a century in the making
It takes the right partners to make it a commercial reality
Chris Mowry, CEO of @typeoneenergy , on how the SMI's network, from @AECOM to @BankofAmerica , is bringing the world's first fusion power plant to deployment

Zoisa North-Bond, CEO of Octopus Energy Generation, on six years of SMI leadership, CHOGM in Rwanda & Samoa, & why energy, nature & sustainability must combine forces to deliver on 2030 targets

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@TheSMI has arrived in Glasgow for the 2026 Commonwealth Games!
Tomorrow, we co-host the Commonwealth Sustainable Events Breakfast Roundtable alongside @Glasgow_2026 @thecgf @RoyalCWSociety
Sport. Sustainability. Action.
Learn more: sustainable-markets.org
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One people. One planet. One future
SMI CEO @jenjordansaifi took the stage at the Farnborough International Airshow to deliver a keynote on the Astra Carta and the SMI's vision for sustainable space
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His Majesty King Charles III visited the University of Cambridge to officially open the Whittle Laboratory, a milestone in the mission to decarbonise aviation and power generation. As a founding member of #TheSMI, Whittle Lab has been at the heart of the SMI's work since 2020.

The next era of space exploration must be built on responsibility as much as ambition
SMI CEO @jenjordansaifi is speaking at the Farnborough International Airshow today on the Astra Carta and the SMI's vision for sustainable space
1:55pm | AGN Theatre 2 | AGF Technology Summit