An award-winning entrepreneur, activist and producer, Amy Larkin has been at the forefront of the environmental movement for decades. She co-founded PR3: The Global Alliance to Advance Reuse in 2019. PR3 is developing reusable packaging standards that are being adopted across the globe to ensure that this burgeoning industry can achieve its enormous economic and environmental potential. Her recent TED Talk explains reuse’s enormous potential.
Prior to her work as an environmentalist, Amy spent 15 years as an arts producer in NYC, Seattle and Italy including two years as Executive Producer at Fabrica, Benetton’s Institute of Arts and Communications.
Amy served as Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Climate Change from 2014-2016 and was named a 2024 Grist50 Climate Leader.
As Greenpeace Solutions Director, Amy led a radical collaboration with the Consumer Goods Forum (400+ 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.
Amy’s 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.
