Anne France Kennedy is a former senior business executive with international experience born and raised within the globalisation and linear economy framework. Passionate about the positive impact that businesses could have on our lives, she was disappointed by the limitations of the shareholder value profit model. In the early 2000s, she was inspired by the social enterprise model and the solutions offered by the circular economy framework. For the last 20 years she has been a start-up founder with her range of successes and failures. From creating an innovative brand of eco-friendly party bags, to raising funds for microfinance programmes, creating a social enterprise network and then to energy efficiency she realised how few professionals were actually engaged in tackling social and environmental issues. Inspired by how people could make a difference to businesses and our lives, she created KlimateNet in June 2021 along with her co-founder Sandeep Krishnappa to empower more professionals to discover the opportunities of working on projects that remove greenhouse gas emissions.

KlimateNet’s mission is to help de-risk and support project founders that work on projects to remove greenhouse gas emissions. KlimateNet is the only impartial international community of climate professionals that help benchmark the environmental and social positive impact of projects. KlimateNet is the “Trustpilot” of climate projects via their digital platform (the KlimateNet App and web portal).