Transitioning to green energy creates a healthier planet while providing countries with job growth and greater energy security. However, governments will have to make many policy tradeoffs.
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Sustainability Policy and Regulation
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February 19, 2025
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February 25, 2025
Although the energy transition will continue worldwide, the past year’s election results around the globe have prompted many government leaders to devote more attention to energy affordability and energy security.
Six actionable opportunities for EU policymakers to accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture at scale.
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January 23, 2025
To seize the economic opportunity presented by the global green transition, policymakers need to concentrate on the following principal levers and key success factors.
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November 19, 2024
By taking a strategic approach to ESG reporting—focusing only on materially relevant aspects—boards can meet regulatory requirements and concentrate attention on critical sustainability goals.
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October 21, 2024
Delivering on the SDGs
Ankur Vora of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and BCG’s Jim Larson share why they are optimistic despite the many challenges.
Highlights from UNGA & NY Climate Week 2024
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September 27, 2024
A Deep Dive on the Costs of Decarbonization
Ultimately, decarbonized products won’t cost consumers a big premium. But getting there won’t be cheap or easy, explains BCG’s Rich Lesser.
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September 27, 2024
What Will Enable Companies to Move Faster on Climate?
Dow’s Jim Fitterling discusses the role of new markets, collaboration, and innovation in driving technological advances and speeding up climate action.
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September 26, 2024
Profits with Purpose
Alex Amouyel discusses how Newman's Own Foundation directs all profits to support children’s programs, donating to initiatives that nourish and uplift kids facing adversity.
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November 4, 2024
Partnering with the Private Sector to Meet Humanitarian Needs
The private sector’s scale and reach make it a valued partner in disaster response and other humanitarian efforts, says BCG’s David Young.
The Sustainable Advantage: Insights on Creating Competitive Advantage Through Sustainability
Climate Innovation and Tech
Leaders from both the public and private sectors must take bold action to protect communities, organizations, and natural systems from the impacts of climate change. A new generation of data-driven and digital technologies will play a central role in this effort.
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November 4, 2024
A Turning Point for Green Growth
Companies are focusing on long-term solutions that unlock growth and new profit pools in sustainability, say BCG’s Hubertus Meinecke and Vinay Shandal.
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September 26, 2024
Are Companies Reducing Their Emissions?
Trellis Group’s Joel Makower and BCG’s Diana Dimitrova discuss the findings from BCG’s latest decarbonization report.
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September 19, 2024
Four major barriers stand between emerging climate technologies and adoption at scale. Here’s how earlier pioneering technologies—wind, CCGT, renewables, LNG, and solar—overcame them.
Finance and Investment
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January 16, 2025
Addressing climate change is creating opportunities that may be worth $11 trillion by 2040. Countries that act early can position themselves for growth.
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March 6, 2025
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October 23, 2024
Private equity-owned companies are taking steps to reduce their carbon emissions in both the long and short term. The key is establishing a decarbonization strategy and clear goals.
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April 18, 2024
A recent global survey reveals that insights gained from assessing sustainability topics are crucial for preserving and enhancing the value of M&A deals.
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November 13, 2024
A clear framework outlines mechanisms and pathways that unlock more capital to ensure the climate transition is not only green but also equitable.
Nature and Environment
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November 7, 2024
Investment in sustainable agriculture will be key in order for farmers to keep up with rising global food demand.
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September 12, 2024
Greater biodiversity is the key to healthier soil. And healthier soil is the key to a range of environmental and economic benefits. Here’s how to achieve them.
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July 11, 2024
Governments and alternative protein players should follow three lessons that jump-started the growth of the electric vehicle industry.
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March 27, 2024
Next-generation soil carbon sequestration supercharges biological and chemical processes that naturally occur in the soil, helping corporate efforts to get to net zero and mitigate climate change.
COP28 Action Agenda on Regenerative Landscapes
With global food systems facing significant sustainability challenges, we need a change in global agricultural practices. That’s why BCG—together with the COP28 Presidency, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions—is chairing a flagship initiative to accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture. Discover the critical role soil health plays in capturing carbon, maintaining biodiversity, retaining water, and supporting local economies, and learn about the barriers and benefits farmers are experiencing in changing their practices—as well as the role the private and public sector can play in supporting this initiative.
Industry Spotlight
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January 29, 2025
What’s Needed to Drive the Net Zero Transition in the Chemical Industry?
Innovation is key to progress, according to Clariant’s Richard Haldimann and Charlie Tan of Global Impact Coalition. But so, too, is teaming up with companies in the value chain and industry.
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January 20, 2025
Data centers are booming, but power, supply chain, and sustainability challenges threaten growth. Here’s how companies can surmount the obstacles and meet the growing thirst for computing power.
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February 13, 2025
How can fashion brands drive adoption to unlock the benefits of next-gen materials? A report by Fashion for Good and BCG provides a blueprint.
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December 10, 2024
Maritime transportation could become a key part of the carbon capture value chain, especially in Asia-Pacific.
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October 18, 2024
Health Care Companies Have a Key Role to Play in Climate Strategy
Takeda’s Johanna Jobin and BCG’s Elizabeth Millman Hardin explore what organizations can do to evolve their services and products to address the impacts of climate change.
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October 18, 2024
Scaling Circularity in Textiles
RE&UP’s Dennis Evers talks with BCG’s Catharina Martinez-Pardo about how RE&UP’s textile industry expertise and focus on recycling post-consumer waste are driving growth.
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September 10, 2024
The global cement industry’s future competitive landscape will depend on who can reduce their carbon capture and storage (CCS) costs the most.
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July 3, 2024
The number of ESG regulations continues to grow. Leading medtech companies are going beyond merely complying to gain competitive advantage.
For Business Leaders
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January 16, 2025
Trade and AI, growth and climate imperatives, and workplace unity will define the CEO agenda in the year ahead. Here’s a closer look at each dynamic.
Tune in to an episode of Harvard Business School’s Climate Rising Podcast as Rich Lesser shares impactful solutions for a sustainable future in business.
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July 23, 2024
Action to enhance adaptation and resilience is urgently needed. A new approach for tracking the impact of a country’s A&R investments could unlock investment.
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December 3, 2024
CSOs have a critical window in their first few months on the job to make change and build momentum for success.
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