15 Green Predictions for 2010

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It is the end of the year – that time of year when everyone rolls out their X Predictions for 2010 post and, in that regard, GreenMonk is not going to be any different!

Well , maybe slightly different, some of the following predictions are more like hopes and aspirations on my part than likely outcomes!

1. There will be an increasing emphasis on sustainability initiatives as organisations understand their financial benefits
2. CSR reporting will become mandatory for large companies in the EU
3. Companies will more and more look to IT to help them with their energy efficiency programs
4. An heightened legislative emphasis on carbon reporting will spur the development of more carbon reporting software
5. There will be greater and greater integration of carbon reporting functionality into ERP and financial reporting applications
6. Standards will be agreed for energy and water footprint labels for products and services
7. Water and energy footprint labels will be made mandatory in the EU
8. At least one smart grid rollout in the US will fail spectacularly due, in large part, to poor stakeholder communications
9. More and more Smart City initiatives will come on stream as cities aim to become more sustainable
10. Mainstream car manufacturers will start to release plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles
11. At least one major mobile phone handset manufacturer rolls out mobile phones with built-in environmental sensors (for crowd-sourced environmental data viewable in realtime with an Augmented Reality browser)
12. Bluefin tuna stocks will crash in the atlantic
13. It will be a record year for ice loss in the Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets
14. It will be a record year for damage from hurricanes in the Atlantic and typhoons in the Pacific
15. 2010 will be the warmest year on record due to the combined influence of El Niño and global warming



and a bonus prediction for good luck:

16. The US will finally pass climate legislation limiting CO2 emissions (but it won’t go far enough!)

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