To address many of the great challenges of our time
including climate change, excessive waste, poverty and human equity issues, many corporations have pledged to improve their environmental performance within a few decades.
They are enacting new corporate policies and practices that focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero, eliminating pollution due to plastics, protecting and restoring ecosystems by nature-positive decisions and ensuring that their activities are people-positive.
Meeting these pledges is a formidable challenge that requires a reinvention of the chemicals and materials industry. Innovations across manufacturing processes, supply chains, raw materials, business models, corporate strategies, economic policies and finished products are essential. However, individual companies cannot transform the CMI on their own. Leaders across the sector are eager to explore new technological approaches, business models and corporate structures that can accelerate this development.
Our mission
The center’s mission is rooted in transformation, a primary theme that guides research and solutions development in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory®. Our work aligns with a number of complementary Global Futures focal areas, including:
System modeling
simulation, complexity analysis, optimization, control, supply chains, etc.
Human economics
behavioral economics and microeconomics
Governance and decision-making
both business and civic; investment strategy and business planning, government policy
Biosystems
science and technology of biosystems with sustainable chemicals and materials, and nature-based solutions