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Energy transitions: The rise of renewables
Global energy-related emissions are expected to peak in 2024 and decline by 20% by 2050, mostly driven by the decline of coal usage in the power sector and growth in electricity demand. This trajectory, however, is still far off from a 2-degree pathway.
A world with affordable, resilient, and efficient energy production is on the horizon. As external forces such as climate change and new technologies guide the future of the energy landscape, will stakeholders realize the opportunity?
Total cost of
Less carbon means more flexibility: Recognizing the rise of new resources in the electricity mix
Innovation in mobility and how people approach transport is poised to have a game-changing effect on sustainable economic growth.
Mobility: Developing an interconnected ecosystem
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How we experience mobility, and the ecosystem of products and services surrounding it, will depend on where we live. Nonetheless, getting from point A to point B promises to be easier, safer, faster—and a lot more productive.
If plastics demand follows its current trajectory, global plastics-waste volume would grow from 260 million tons per year in 2016 to 460 million by 2030.
Circular economy: Disrupting long-held linear systems
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How plastics waste recycling could transform the chemical industry
A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion’s future
The planet can no longer support our consumption levels or current linear approaches to production. Innovation and system-level change are the keys to mapping out and implementing a new economic reality for businesses, people, and the environment.
From ’why’ to ‘why not’: Sustainable investing as the new normal
The links between sustainability performance and financial performance are becoming clearer, helping to dispel the myth of lower returns. But there’s room to grow. What do both executives and institutional investors need to know to ensure that sustainable investing is indeed sustainable?
Sustainable investing: Measuring the impact
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A company’s commitment to environmental, social, and corporate governance is a source of value—how institutional investors capture that value is worth paying attention to.
Catalyzing the growth of the impact economy
Sustaining sustainability: What institutional investors should do next on ESG
A framework for fostering effective energy transitions
70%
could fall
as much as
more traffic
30%
10%
reduce congestion by
accommodate
Mapping the benefits of a circular economy
Innovation with a Purpose: The role of technology innovation in accelerating food systems transformation
A winning growth formula for dairy
Toward a circular economy in food
The global demand for food will reshape the entire food and agriculture value chain, but the answer isn’t simply clearing more land or producing more packaged food. As the environment shows signs of the toll our current system takes—food and soil erosion, greenhouse gas emissions, water shortages, and health and obesity issues—it’s time for new solutions that put sustainability first.
of global greenhouse gas emissions
20-30%
Food systems
are currently responsible for
By 2050, we must find a way to feed more than 9 billion people, keeping sustainability and health at the forefront of that plan.
Sustainable agriculture: Collaborating to meet a global imperative
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freshwater withdrawals
70%
Technology and innovation can help.
The case for action: Why, and how, utilities should start to manage climate-change risk
The case for action: Why, and how, utilities should start to manage climate-change risk
Less carbon means more flexibility: Recognizing the rise of new resources in the electricity mix
A framework for fostering effective energy transitions
How plastics waste recycling could transform the chemical industry
A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion’s future
Mapping the benefits of a circular economy
From ’why’ to ‘why not’: Sustainable investing as the new normal
Catalyzing the growth of the impact economy
Sustaining sustainability: What institutional investors should do next on ESG
A winning growth formula for dairy
Toward a circular economy in food
Innovation with a Purpose: The role of technology innovation in accelerating food systems transformation
Mobility’s second great inflection point
Mobility’s second great inflection point
Reimagining mobility:
A CEO’s guide
Reimagining mobility:
A CEO’s guide
The road to seamless urban mobility
The road to seamless urban mobility
Start-up investments in the agritech industry grew 43% in 2018
energy storage systems
lower greenhouse gas emissions by
30%
If done right,
seamless mobility could
billion
$55
by 2030 could represent a worldwide yearly profit pool of
Recycled plastics
trillion
$2.6
thrown away across the globe each year
Value of material in fast-moving consumer goods
by 2025
Mobility’s second great inflection point
trillion
$30
2018
2016
trillion
$22
Global sustainable investing assets
have grown 34% in two years
2018
trillion
$16.9
2017
trillion
$11.8
by 2025
70%
could fall as much as
Total cost of
energy storage systems