The 2020s promises be the decade of the climate change industry as factors are aligned for scaling breakthroughs in key segments of the industry. The U.S. climate change industry represents 18% of the global climate change industry. One would expect that with 9 segments, 62 quantified sub-segments and a total of $446 billion in the US and $2.42 trillion worldwide, segment growth rates would not exhibit much volatility. But segment volatility has been in evidence for much of the 2010s, and more volatility may resurface in the 2020s as the next 10 years of the climate change industry is written. However, it seems certain that climate change industry growth will be at two times of more that of GDP growth for the foreseeable future.
In this review of Digitalization & Data Management in the Environmental Industry Environmental Business Journal characterizes the current state of data management and likely trajectory of investment and implementation in the short term, and implications for the long term on the environmental industry and society. Providers and consumers across the digital information and services supply chain are profiled in feature articles to shed light on how companies are approaching this opportunity. EBJ presents the results of a comprehensive survey, the Environmental Business Journal 2020 Environmental Data Management Survey conducted in November and December of 2020
Infrastructure Webinar Recording & Slides
EBJ’s service definitions and forecast for this evolving market, and rankings of the most influential disruptive forces in the 2020s, will be presented by EBJ editor Grant Ferrier followed by a panel of experts and practitioners in the market.
Climate Change Business Journal presents a conceptual model by the EBI research team that puts the value of natural infrastructure at $33 quadrillion. Based on a meta-study of natural resource data and environmental economics papers, mostly in the academic realm, CCBJ presents a global policy argument with not a flippant but a serious viewpoint of: ‘You might as well start somewhere’.
In a special edition EBJ that combines an analysis of Infrastructure Markets in the 2020s for the environmental industry with a Climate Change Business Journal edition on ‘Natural Infrastructure’. EBJ presents a 2020 quantitative and qualitative analysis of infrastructure markets in the 2020s with market sizing for the six categories of infrastructure: water, energy, power, communications, waste and transportation. Full discussion of market drivers, funding concerns and trend analysis of innovation and disruption in each category is included in both EBJ’s overview and executive Q&A with 10 industry leaders.
