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Monday 16 December 2024

*NEW RESEARCH* SustainabilityViews Predictions 2025

SustainabilityViews Predictions 2025 coverMuch of the focus at 2024’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in November centred around the scale of payments due to compensate developing nations for the effects of climate change (extreme weather events, etc.) and help them decarbonise their economies.

However, other issues were discussed and decided; amongst them, an agreement on registries for international carbon trading markets, collaboration on the development of sustainable tech and resilient digital infrastructure, and commitments to establish better pathways for incorporating tech more firmly into countries’ long-term net zero policies.

With a review of intermediate net zero progress due at COP30 in Brazil next year, all of these matters will have bearing on the priorities and resources that tech user organisations ascribe to their sustainability efforts in the months and years ahead; and thus on the opportunities for software and IT services (SITS) suppliers to contribute to various sustainability initiatives.

And it’s all happening against a backdrop of an incoming Trump administration in the US, with the President-elect having established something of a climate-sceptic stance in the run-up.

With this in mind, we’ve selected ten (unranked) predictions for sustainability technology in 2025, looking at changes in policy, practice, products, and players that are most likely to move the dial when it comes to tech user outcomes and supplier opportunities:

  • Role clarity will emerge at the nexus of business, tech, and sustainability
  • IoT and edge will combine to bridge the IT/OT divide for core ops
  • Forward-thinking businesses will see the carrots beyond regulatory sticks
  • Greenhushing concerns will encourage ‘shadow sustainability’
  • Partnerships and platforms will simplify a fragmented tech landscape
  • Multiple innovations will be needed to address the ‘sustainable AI paradox’
  • Solving sustainability will become a problem-shared
  • Sustainability-as-a-Service solutions will de-risk adoption of best practices
  • Sustainability’s giant leaps will come in baby steps
  • Circular approaches will extend product lifecycles

SustainabilityViews subscribers can download SustainabilityViews Predictions 2025 now. If you are not yet a subscriber, or are unsure if your company has a subscription, please contact Belinda Tewson to find out how you can access the research.

Posted by Craig Wentworth at '07:00' - Tagged: partnerships   predictions   regulation   edge   platforms   circular economy   roles   greenhushing   Sustainability-as-a-Service  

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