Trend Opportunity Profiles: Sustainability and Environment (3rd Edition)

Key Transformations towards Enabling Growth and Innovation to 2030

This study comprises trend opportunity profiles of the top upcoming trends that cater to future environmental needs. It describes opportunities across key sectors, such as fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), healthcare, industrial, mobility, food and agriculture, and information and communication technologies (ICT). It offers a set of transformative trends that help accelerate the net-zero goals through corporate social sustainability initiatives, guides organizations to incorporate these trends by representing exemplary use cases, and suggests opportunities from upcoming business models that are environmentally friendly and enable growth. It also discusses technological innovations, such as IoT devices and sensors for emissions monitoring, climate mitigation through AI, carbon trading platforms, and the development of sustainable materials such as biopolymers. In addition, it includes initiatives taken by businesses to be prepared for extreme weather conditions and to improve their carbon footprint. They've done this by developing smart buildings that mitigate climate impact, implement eco-friendly data storage centers, and promote sustainable agriculture practices. This series covers specific opportunities emerging from future trend evolutions designed to help clients discover and prioritize the most consequential medium- to long-term trends that will continually transform their business's growth environment.