Category: Environment
Environment market research reports by IDC
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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future Consumer 2025 Predictions
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future Consumer 2025 Predictions This IDC study contains IDC's top 10 future consumer predictions for 2025–2030. "The consumer market remains vibrant as established digital services, such as video and social media, continue to reshape the landscape and emerging and evolvi ... Read More
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How Can Geospatial Data and AI Be Leveraged to Support Climate Change Adaptation in Cities and the Built Environment?
How Can Geospatial Data and AI Be Leveraged to Support Climate Change Adaptation in Cities and the Built Environment? The IDC Perspective explores how leveraging geospatial data and AI can aid city authorities, developers, and asset owners adapt to climate change by integrating nature-based solution ... Read More
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Addressing the Scope 3 Challenge: The Partnership for Carbon Transparency
Addressing the Scope 3 Challenge: The Partnership for Carbon Transparency This IDC Perspective highlights the importance of managing and reducing carbon emissions across the entire value chain of a product's life cycle. It underscores the complexity of accurately tracking and measuring these emissio ... Read More
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Workiva Expands Sustainability Software Suite with the Launch of Workiva Carbon
Workiva Expands Sustainability Software Suite with the Launch of Workiva Carbon This IDC Market Note looks at the announcement by Workiva regarding the launch of Workiva Carbon, a new carbon management and accounting platform, marking a strategic shift from its partnership-based approach to incorpor ... Read More
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From Cost Optimization to Carbon Efficiency: How IBM Apptio is Embedding GreenOps Through its Cloudability Emissions Reporting
From Cost Optimization to Carbon Efficiency: How IBM Apptio is Embedding GreenOps Through its Cloudability Emissions Reporting This IDC Market Note analyzes Cloudability Emissions Reporting (beta), the new sustainability solution developed by Apptio and announced in June 2024. Please Note: Extended ... Read More
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Mars International Offers Essential Services to OEMs, Dealers, and Lessors
Mars International Offers Essential Services to OEMs, Dealers, and Lessors This IDC Vendor Profile provides an overview of Mars, a remarketer of off-lease and repossessed office equipment. During IDC's recent tour of the metro New York City area to visit with major copy/print OEMs, we had the oppor ... Read More
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How Dell Technologies Is Operationalizing Its Sustainability Strategy to Create Business Value
How Dell Technologies Is Operationalizing Its Sustainability Strategy to Create Business Value This IDC Vendor Profile provides a detailed overview of Dell Technologies' environmental, social, and governance strategy within the context of IDC's ESG/sustainability framework. It examines three areas:T ... Read More
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AI Datacenter Capacity, Energy Consumption, and Carbon Emission Projections
AI Datacenter Capacity, Energy Consumption, and Carbon Emission Projections This IDC Market Perspective forecasts a significant increase in AI datacenter capacity, energy consumption, and carbon emissions driven by the AI-driven surge in the datacenter market. It highlights the challenges of power s ... Read More
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Drive Growth and Sustainability by Transforming Waste to Profit With the Power of Remanufacturing Software
Drive Growth and Sustainability by Transforming Waste to Profit With the Power of Remanufacturing Software This IDC Perspective explores the pivotal role of remanufacturing software in enhancing supply chain management and as a cornerstone of sustainability initiatives within the manufacturing secto ... Read More
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Are We Going in Circles? What's Next in Sustainable Operations?
Are We Going in Circles? What's Next in Sustainable Operations? This IDC Perspective looks at three broad areas of opportunity to operationalize sustainability and then focuses in on reverse logistics, which offers opportunities to find gains in resource efficiency, consumer relationship and insight ... Read More
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IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board — Making Sustainability Real for the CIO
IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board — Making Sustainability Real for the CIO This IDC Perspective summarizes IDC's Global CIO Advisory Board discussion on sustainability strategies, particularly in the age of AI everywhere. Speakers included chief sustainability officer, human rights officer, and head o ... Read More
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Evaluating Carbon Emissions Savings from Cloud Computing
Evaluating Carbon Emissions Savings from Cloud Computing This IDC Market Perspective evaluates the carbon emissions savings from cloud computing. Increasingly, customers have begun paying attention to environmental footprint when considering purchasing products and services from a company. Many ente ... Read More
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Operationalizing Sustainability in European Governments: Measuring and Reporting Environmental Sustainability
Operationalizing Sustainability in European Governments: Measuring and Reporting Environmental Sustainability This IDC Perspective analyzes how European governments are operationalizing sustainability, focusing on the fundamental step of how they are measuring and reporting their environmental impac ... Read More
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Evolution in EV Battery Technology and Policies Is Driving Domestic Manufacturing and Recycling
Evolution in EV Battery Technology and Policies Is Driving Domestic Manufacturing and Recycling This IDC Market Perspective discusses the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain that is expanding but manufacturing remains highly concentrated in certain regions, with China being the main player in battery ... Read More
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What Happens to Old Print Devices in Europe and What Motivates Clients to Recycle Them?
What Happens to Old Print Devices in Europe and What Motivates Clients to Recycle Them? Most organizations in Europe dispose of their old printing equipment in responsible ways that support recycling and reuse. Several factors motivate organizations to take this approach, including organizational su ... Read More
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Ricoh Demonstrates its Sustainability in Remanufacturing and Recycling
Ricoh Demonstrates its Sustainability in Remanufacturing and Recycling This IDC Vendor Profile provides an overview of one of Ricoh's production sites in Europe — Ricoh Industrie France — where it focuses on two main activities: the manufacture of thermal media and the circular economy. The company' ... Read More
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Utility Customer Engagement: A Necessity in Meeting Net-Zero Goals
Utility Customer Engagement: A Necessity in Meeting Net-Zero Goals This IDC Perspective examines how creating or enhancing digital customer engagement will help utilities in meeting net-zero targets and timelines."As utilities embark on their energy transition journey and efforts to reduce CO2 emis ... Read More
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Datacenter Energy and Carbon Emission Projections and the Drive to Net Zero
Datacenter Energy and Carbon Emission Projections and the Drive to Net Zero This IDC Market Note frames the preeminent datacenter challenge of meeting the growing demand for capacity while continuing to be environmentally responsible. By ingraining both digital and sustainability into the fabric of ... Read More
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COP26: What Is the Climate Goal and How Can Technologies Help the Energy Sector?
COP26: What Is the Climate Goal and How Can Technologies Help the Energy Sector? This IDC Perspective is the first research article in a publication series related to current discussions on sustainability and explains the ins and outs of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) a ... Read More
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IDC Europe Sustainable Strategies and Technologies Index Market Maturity Report: Software Providers
IDC Europe Sustainable Strategies and Technologies Index Market Maturity Report: Software Providers This IDC Market Perspective provides a sustainability framework for the IT industry based on three pillars: Technology Vendor Performance, Technology as an Enabler, and Technology for Good. The docume ... Read More
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Brother Industries U.K.: Highlighting its Remanufacturing and Recycling Facilities
Brother Industries U.K.: Highlighting its Remanufacturing and Recycling Facilities This IDC Vendor Profile offers an overview of Brother Industries U.K.s Global Recycling Technology Centre. IDC assessed the strategy of the center and how it fits within the context of recycling and remanufacturing in ... Read More
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Dassault Systèmes Digital Twin: Reducing Congestion and Pollution on the Road to Paris 2024
Dassault Systèmes Digital Twin: Reducing Congestion and Pollution on the Road to Paris 2024 This IDC Market Note provides an overview of one of Dassault Systèmes' digital twin offerings, a demo version based on 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud Platform with expertise from partner PTV Group (now Umovity). The demo ... Read More
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Social Sustainability: How Vendors Can Take Advantage of a Less Mature Market
Social Sustainability: How Vendors Can Take Advantage of a Less Mature Market This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of social sustainability and how vendors can take advantage of a less mature market. With end-user ESG maturity growing rapidly through the use of environmental sustainabili ... Read More
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The Industrial Sector Is Subject to ESG Reporting Challenges But Exhibits Maturity Compared with Other Sectors
The Industrial Sector Is Subject to ESG Reporting Challenges But Exhibits Maturity Compared with Other Sectors This IDC Market Note reviews and discusses survey findings around emissions data collection and ESG reporting among industrial organizations. IDC's 2022 Worldwide Energy Transition Survey r ... Read More
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Utilities and Oil and Gas Sectors’ Initiatives and Strategies to Thrive in the Energy Transition
Utilities and Oil and Gas Sectors’ Initiatives and Strategies to Thrive in the Energy Transition This IDC Perspective aims to compare and contrast the oil and gas (O&G) industry versus the utilities industry in relation to energy transition."Both the O&G and utilities industries are and will ... Read More