Category: Environment
Environment market research reports by IDC
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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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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future Consumer 2023 Predictions
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future Consumer 2023 Predictions This IDC study contains IDC's top 10 future consumer predictions for 2023-2027. "Changes provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic are combining with stark generational differences to give rise to the Future Consumer, driven by the mainstreaming of ... 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
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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Operationalize Repair, Reuse, Recycle
IDC PeerScape: Practices to Operationalize Repair, Reuse, Recycle This IDC PeerScape examines several successful practices in the areas of repair, reuse, and recycle that retailers or brands have undertaken in their efforts to operate more sustainably."Operating 'eaches' businesses at scale, as we ... Read More
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Best and Brightest: Australia and New Zealand Smart City Initiatives 2022
Best and Brightest: Australia and New Zealand Smart City Initiatives 2022 This IDC Market Note provides insight and commentary into this year's Smart City winners and nominations in the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) regions, summarising the projects, discussing the strengths, collaborations, and r ... Read More
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Global Carbon Reduction Policies for the Energy Transition in the Oil and Gas Industry
Global Carbon Reduction Policies for the Energy Transition in the Oil and Gas Industry The world requires an energy transition. Its dependency on heavily polluting fossil fuels has a severe impact on the environment, and it is imperative that the world moves to more sustainable and cleaner sources o ... Read More
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Cisco Introduces Green Pay Initiative to Accelerate Equipment Recycling and Reuse
Cisco Introduces Green Pay Initiative to Accelerate Equipment Recycling and Reuse This IDC Market Note provides IDC’s take on Cisco’s new Green Pay initiative to support Cisco’s 100% equipment return pledge and improve IT equipment recycling and reuse metrics."Cisco continues to announce new program ... Read More
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Can 5G Radio Access Networks Break the Energy Curve? The Quest for Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emissions Reduction
Can 5G Radio Access Networks Break the Energy Curve? The Quest for Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emissions Reduction The exponential growth of mobile data demand and the higher frequencies of 5G versus 4G means that 5G footprint will be much denser than that of 4G, and even though the energy efficien ... Read More
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Amazon Web Services Launches Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
Amazon Web Services Launches Customer Carbon Footprint Tool This IDC Market Note covers AWS' latest announcement regarding its Customer Carbon Footprint Tool. It also provides insights on how technology can help tech vendors in achieving their sustainability goals in Europe. Please Note: Extended de ... Read More
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China Gaming Market Update, 1H21
China Gaming Market Update, 1H21 This IDC Market Perspective provides an update on the China gaming industry in 1H21 with insights into various current trends in the market and its impact on the local market. The China gaming industry has started to normalize as consumers are starting to return to t ... Read More
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COP26: How Technologies Help the Oil and Gas Industry Survive the Energy Transition
COP26: How Technologies Help the Oil and Gas Industry Survive the Energy Transition This Market Note focuses on how to decarbonize the oil and gas industry, covering the market outlook, main sources of carbon emissions, leading players during the energy transition, and how IT technologies can empowe ... 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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ServiceMax Acquires LiquidFrameworks: The Evolution of Field Service Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
ServiceMax Acquires LiquidFrameworks: The Evolution of Field Service Management in the Oil and Gas Industry This IDC Market Note highlights the recent acquisition of LiquidFrameworks by ServiceMax on July 15, 2021, extending ServiceMax's field service management capabilities further into the oil and ... Read More
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European Technology for Sustainability and Social Impact Newsletter, H1 2021
European Technology for Sustainability and Social Impact Newsletter, H1 2021 This Market Note provides an overview of relevant sustainability announcements that circulated mostly in the first half of 2021. "There has been a strong shift in the approach of companies going green. Corporations are stil ... Read More
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Printer Cartridge Recycling Rates in Australia and New Zealand
Printer Cartridge Recycling Rates in Australia and New Zealand This IDC Market Note analysed printer cartridge recycling rates in Australia and New Zealand. With increasing focus around environmental, social, and governance (ESG), print OEMs have a vested interest in the collection and recycling of ... Read More
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Iron Mountain: Leveraging Its World-Class Logistics and Asset Processing to Enable Secure IT Asset Disposition
Iron Mountain: Leveraging Its World-Class Logistics and Asset Processing to Enable Secure IT Asset Disposition This IDC Vendor Profile provides a summary of Iron Mountain's March briefing to IDC on the company's Secure ITAD (SITAD) program and updated portal that provides details for its clients abo ... Read More
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Sustainability in Canada: Is Mainstream Adoption Imminent?
Sustainability in Canada: Is Mainstream Adoption Imminent? This IDC Market Perspective examines the perspectives of Canadian organizations on sustainability practices and the importance of corporate social responsibility as key business objectives. Sustainability is an emerging issue for Canadian co ... Read More
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Worldwide CO2 Emissions Savings from Cloud Computing Forecast, 2021–2024: A First-of-Its-Kind Projection
Worldwide CO2 Emissions Savings from Cloud Computing Forecast, 2021–2024: A First-of-Its-Kind Projection This IDC study presents IDC's first global forecast of CO2 emissions savings from cloud computing."IDC has been tracking the server market and quantifying compute power for nearly all of its 50+ ... Read More
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Computomics: Facing Climate Change by Delivering AI to Plant Breeders
Computomics: Facing Climate Change by Delivering AI to Plant Breeders This IDC Vendor Profile examines Germany-headquartered Computomics, a start-up founded in 2012 that has developed AI software systems to support the activities of plant breeders. Computomics aims to bring the power of advanced mac ... Read More
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COVID-19 and Sustainability: Technology as Part of the Solution
COVID-19 and Sustainability: Technology as Part of the Solution This IDC Market Note highlights the role of technology in different aspects of society, especially in the time of COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it extremely obvious how globalized our society and economy are nowadays, and how ... Read More
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Secure Asset Disposition: It's Not Just Security; It's the Environment, the Steps an Enterprise Should Take to Sustainability
Secure Asset Disposition: It's Not Just Security; It's the Environment, the Steps an Enterprise Should Take to Sustainability This IDC Perspective shows how enterprises can resolve their issue with disposing of obsolete computer equipment. The enterprises' obsolete computer equipment pile is growin ... Read More
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Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling — New Processes Show Progress, But Supply of Core Materials Still Under Pressure
Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling — New Processes Show Progress, But Supply of Core Materials Still Under Pressure This IDC Market Note summarizes the current state of lithium-ion batteries, a key component for mobile phones, consumer electronics, and electric vehicles. It also highlights the effort to ... Read More
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China's National Sword Policy Stops Import of Plastic Waste — Will This Impact the Secondary Smartphone Market?
China's National Sword Policy Stops Import of Plastic Waste — Will This Impact the Secondary Smartphone Market? This IDC Market Note summarizes the impact of China's National Sword initiative on the secondary smartphone market. Please Note: Extended description available upon request. ... Read More
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