Mattie Yeta, Chief Sustainability Officer, CGI, UK has predicted the Top three trends of 2025 for Sustainability.
Increased reporting on Nature
“Publicly listed companies like CGI operating across industry sectors and geographies represent US$4 trillion in market capitalisation and over 100 financial institutions, including asset owners and managers representing US$14 trillion have volunteered their intention to begin adopting nature reporting as part of their annual corporate reporting for FY2023, FY2024 or FY2025 – so we shall see more of this”
Stricter Frameworks and legislation on Environment, Social and Governance
“New ESG regulations aimed at enhancing sustainability transparency and accountability in business practices will come into effect over the next few years. We will see businesses align with stricter frameworks that mandate reporting across ESG especially the supply chain in a bid to hit goals whilst continuing to accelerate innovation. Government intervention through more stringent guidelines and legislation will intensify efforts.”
Embedding sustainability into core business strategies, supported by Technology
“In the last 12 months, I’ve seen a big emphasis on the integration of sustainability into different business functions like finance, marketing and operations. At the same time, there has also been a lot of investment in AI. Many organisations are investing to uncover patterns to support sustainability initiatives.”
Rise of green careers and the need for sustainability experts
“The demand for sustainability experts within businesses will continue to grow, and this will open doors for green careers and education. Organisations will look at prioritising reskilling initiatives to ensure they tap into existing talent that have a passion for sustainability – but sometimes just lack some of the specific skillsets. This will close the sustainability skills gap, while we wait for new generations of green-specialists to come into the workforce.”
Transparency and accountability in energy usage for cloud providers
“By 2025, hyperscalers and cloud providers will face increased pressure to improve the transparency and accountability of their energy usage. As this evolves, reporting and measuring sustainable IT metrics will grow in importance. On a granular level, there will be a greater adoption of tools like Data Twin 360, which tracks metrics like CPU and memory energy consumption.”
