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STR Sustainability Trends Report
2021
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Welcome
  • State of Sustainability
  • About this report
01 Economy & Finance
  • 1.1 Key trends
  • 1.2 What does “building back better“ really mean?
  • 1.3 Cutting out the greenwash from sustainable investment
02 Natural Solutions
  • 2.1 Key trends
  • 2.2 Regenerative food systems — from fringe to centre-stage
  • 2.3 A raft of natural solutions for net zero and biodiversity
03 Energy
  • 3.1 Key trends
  • 3.2 Accelerating the transition to zero-carbon energy
  • 3.3 New frontiers in energy access
04 Health & Wellbeing
  • 4.1 Key trends
  • 4.2 Wellbeing and mental health in the wake of COVID-19
  • 4.3 New breakthroughs with huge potential to save lives
05 Mobility & Buildings
  • 5.1 Key trends
  • 5.2 Towards the regenerative city
  • 5.3 The race to electrified mobility reaches a tipping point
06 Value Chains & Circularity
  • 6.1 Key trends
  • 6.2 Rethinking value chains for sustainability and resilience
  • 6.3 Signs that the circular economy is finally taking shape
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Spotlight topic:

17 results
  1. 01 Economy & Finance

    1. The shift to sustainability can lead the economic recovery
  2. 02 Natural Solutions

    1. Nature has never been under greater threat
    2. There is growing interest in nature-based solutions for sustainability
    3. There is rising interest in regenerative food systems that restore and nourish land, ecosystems and livelihoods
    4. Investment activity in natural solutions is taking off
    5. Some countries are natural-solutions superpowers
    6. Achieving 1.5°C and net zero will probably require some level of carbon removal through nature-based solutions
    7. Demand for NCS credits is growing rapidly in line with corporates’ net-zero ambitions
    8. Many scenarios rely on biomass energy with carbon capture and storage at huge scale
    9. It’s not only a climate story. There is growing business and investor interest in the wider role of natural solutions
    10. Use of “bio-based“ and similar terms is taking off in consumer and industrials sectors
    11. Natural solutions for construction are proliferating
    12. Governments will play a key role in helping natural solutions to scale up quickly
  3. 06 Value Chains & Circularity

    1. Consumer interest in sustainability is at an all time high
    2. There have been step changes in consumer behaviour
    3. Entrenched interests are a barrier to progress on the circular economy, but some are rethinking their business models
    4. Commitments to end deforestation are common, but action lags far behind
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