Kode21 helps organisations create successful, climate-positive, regenerative products and strategies.
Climate change and other looming ecological crises have the potential to upend our lives beyond recognition. The world is changing rapidly in response - is your company?
Creating Strategy from Regenerative Opportunities
Creating a regenerative strategy is the right thing to do - but it is also crucial for staying relevant as a business. Don’t just take our word for it: legislation such as Europe’s CSRD will make it mandatory to have plans addressing climate risks, negative impacts, and regenerative opportunities.
With our BoCS (Business of Climate Solutions) method, Kode21 has developed a unique process that uses a full spectrum of science backed, regenerative climate solutions to define positive impact business strategies and innovations. We have worked with organisations such as General Mills, Project Drawdown, Philips and ASN Bank to find regenerative opportunities in sectors as diverse as food, healthcare, museums and fashion.
We’re convinced that every company has regenerative potential - what’s yours?
animation by Stan Joosten with support from Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
In this project for ASN Bank we created a solutions framework describing a regenerative fashion industry, including building blocks for new business models, renewable energy systems, and biobased materials. It will serve as a basis for investments and other policy actions.
Regenerative Fashion for ASN Bank
Climate Positive Healthcare with Philips
As part of a long-standing collaboration, Kode21 conducted workshops to find regenerative business opportunities in healthcare, leading to over 400 potential ideas for innovation.
Our work with food company General Mills, in collaboration with renowned climate solutions experts Project Drawdown, resulted in concepts spanning food products, digital services, branding, climate justice, and even new business units. 15 of these were incorporated into into General Mills’ Global Climate Action Plan.
Food with General Mills and Project Drawdown
“It was great to work with Kode21 - they are pioneering the use of climate solutions as building blocks for innovation. Kode21 has developed a unique method that has helped organisations like General Mills go beyond emissions reductions to discover new, climate positive business opportunities and find value, not just costs, in sustainability.”
Jamie Alexander, Director, Drawdown Labs
“Kode21's 'Business of Climate Solutions' really helps find climate positive business opportunities that go far beyond the usual sustainability ideas. It tackles a serious topic in a creative and accessible way, while ensuring true positive environmental impact."
Helle Ullerup, Senior Service Designer, Philips Circular Design Group
Products Designed for Positive Impact
From fashion to electronics and from healthcare to transport, creating and using products can have an enormous negative impact through emissions, pollution, water use and land use. But with the tools we have available today, it doesn’t have to be like this.
We can use circular economy principles to make products and resources last. We have biobased and other low-carbon materials at our disposal, to minimize emissions and even store carbon. We know how to electrify just about everything while reducing energy use. And we can use systems thinking to zoom out and find surprising, fruitful connections to climate- and nature-positive solutions. When we do this, we can create successful products - that can become regenerative by freeing up resources, storing carbon, and giving land back to nature.
Design is in our genes. We have decades of experience designing succesful products and systems for companies such as Philips, Bose and Ultimaker. Today, we combine that experience with a unique process that finds all the ways in which negative impacts can be reduced and regenerative opportunities can be seized. We want to help you with just that.
KoFF forges a path to climate-positive coffee
Designing a coffee maker with a systems approach led to an estimated 50% or more emissions reduction - while improving convenience and creating an enduring relation with customers.
Circular, biobased, climate-positive design
We combine decades of experience designing products and systems for companies such as Philips and Bose with in-depth knowledge on circular economy principles, biobased materials and other regenerative design methods.
Plastic Crush exhibition for Tropenmuseum
Our collaboration with Nationaal Museum voor Wereldculturen and studio Harm Rensink resulted in low-carbon and climate-positive concepts for materials, circularity, energy, transport, content and more.
“We were thrilled by the scope and amount of ideas resulting from Kode21’s process. It gave our entire team fresh energy and the common goal of putting sustainability central in everything we do”
Margrit Reuss, Senior Objects Conservator, Nationaal Museum Voor Wererdculturen
“Kode21 gave us gorgeous tools and inspiration materials that really helped our team move forward to our sustainable objectives. Not just at product level, but also by clarifying our strategic goals”
Robert Stadman, Innovation Manager, Joolz
"The only companies that are going to survive in the future are the companies that make a positive contribution to people and planet"
Paul Polman, co-author, Net-Positive, former Unilever CEO