Kate Meyer

Kate Meyer is a sustainability scientist, engineer, and creator of Planetary Accounting, an internationally recognised, peer-reviewed framework that translates global limits for nature into actionable metrics. She is also the Founder and CEO of the Planetary Accounting Network – a charitable trust whose purpose is to inspire and enable people to operate within the planet’s environmental limits.

Planetary Accounting is like Google Translate for environmental stewardship. It makes complex data easy for anyone to understand.

For example, it underpins “Planetary Facts” – like Nutrition Facts for sustainability but instead of calories, protein and fat, they set out the carbon, waste, biodiversity and other environmental footprints of a product.

Planetary Accounting is already being used in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK to support nature positive action from food and fibre to building and construction, local government policy, and financial investments.

Kate’s work has been recognised on platforms including TEDx, Auckland University’s 40Under40 and SBNs Next 95.

Kate will be speaking at the State of Play session during the Better Building Day at Wao Summit 2025.