In 2020, for the first time ever, solar and wind made up the majority of the world’s new power generation. In 2021, the US alone committed to protect 30% of terrestrial and marine ecosystems by 2030. And at the time we are writing this, more than 30% of the Fortune 500 have made commitments to a carbon-free future. This kind of change is inspiring, but is also going to require a ton of new ideas and energy so that we can adapt for the regenerative economy and achieve a sustainable future.
Read on to learn about innovations in climate change and sustainability. And if you would like to contribute an article on one of these topics, please have a look at our editorial guidelines and get in touch!
Alternative Energy
- How Going Green Can Help Your Profits and the Environment
- Renewable Energy: A Growing Industry
- The Five Most Renewable Energy Sources
Bio-Industries
Carbon Control
Clean Energy
- How Going Green Can Help Your Profits and the Environment
- 5 Industries with the Most Innovative Companies
- Is Open Government the Same as Open Innovation?
- Innovating with Bug Power
- Time to Front up on Green
- Case of Vestas Wind Systems and Peter Drucker’s Five Deadly Sins of Business
Climate Change
- Is Innovation the Secret to Adapting to the Regenerative Future?
- A Climate and Ecological Crisis Demands Humanity Centered Design
- Unlocking the One Trillion-Dollar Sustainable Innovation Opportunity
- Heading for Mass Extinction
- The Unexpected Impact of Modern Innovations
- Arctic Opportunities
- Use Co-Creation to Drive Public Sector Innovation
- Saving the Climate is Saving the Business
- COP15: A Derailed Innovation Management Process
CEC
Conservation
- 10 Innovations That Will Make Your Business Greener
- How the loT Can Change Your Workplace
- Water, the Oil of the 21st Century – Pressure is Rising
Eco-Friendly
Eco-Friendly Business
Energy
- What Innovation Looks Like at an Energy Company
- How Going Green Can Help Your Profits and the Environment
- The Future of Manufacturing and Energy is Crowdsourced Innovation
- Top Innovation Trends in the Manufacturing and Energy Sector
- 10 Innovations That Will Make Your Business Greener
- The 5 Most Innovative Renewable Energy Sources
- Super Heroes of Solar
- Synthetic Biology Begins to Deliver
- Artificial Photosynthesis Powering Up
Environmental Sustainability
Environment
- Innovations in ROI for Customers: The Environmental Edition
- Man and Nature: Perspectives on Sustainability from East Asian Philosophy
- Cities and Innovation: A Zen Perspective
- Staying Innovative Within Your Industry’s Regulations: is it Possible?
- How the Innovation Principle Supplements and Balances the Precautionary Principle
- Innovation: Force Fields for Change
- How to Innovate Like and Insurance Carrier
- Top Six Components of a Creative Climate
- Can Catering for Creativity Make Innovation Happen?
- Future Funerals
- Internet of the Sea
- Fracking: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Innovate to Scale
- Greening Higher Places
- Enterprise Social Media Usage Pays Off in Innovation and Knowledge Sharing
- Sourcing Crowds for Out of the Box Ideas
- Innovation: Is There Such a Thing as “Best Practice”
Green Innovation
- How Companies Can Pursue a More Circular Economy
- Little Ways for Companies to Save Money
- Staying Innovative Within Your Industry’s Regulations: Is it Possible?
- How do we Replace Plastics? Innovations is Needed
- Turning Big Data Into Big Paydays
- 7 Ways Startups can Foster Innovation Through Sustainability
- 5 Reasons Sustainability Drives Innovation
- Unlocking the One Trillion-Dollar Sustainable Innovation Opportunity
- Who Needs Paper?
- Innovating Nature
- Cardboard’s Increasingly Diverse Future
- Hanging Gardens of Metropolis
- 50 Great Innovators, One Better Future
- Reducing Congestion – Courtesy of Technology and Business Model Innovation?
- Expensive Rubbish (where there’s muck…)
- Creating Actionable Knowledge Through Close Ties With Industry
Green Innovations
- Cut Costs in Health Care by Treating it Like Pollution
- A Paradigm Shift for SMEs: Leveraging Sustainability as a Driver for Innovation
- Case: Open Innovation in the Biorefinery Industry
- Saving the Climate is Saving the Business- Aligning Sustainable and Open Innovation
- A Greening of Innovation… and Profit
Green Technology
Human Centered Design
Solar Cells
Solar Energy
- Renewable Energy: A Growing Industry Welcoming Big Business and Startups Alike
- Tech That Could Change Your Life
Solar Power
Sustainability
- Key Trends in Transportation Innovation
- Three Hurdles to Sustainable Innovation
- Ocean Mining – A Race to the Bottom
- Artificial Meat: A Solution to Growing Demand?
- Healthy and Sustainable Tourism
- Rising to the Challenge of Peak Population
- Biomimicry: How Business Solves Problems by Looking to Nature