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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!
- There will be an increasing emphasis on sustainability initiatives as organisations understand their financial benefits
- CSR reporting will become mandatory for large companies in the EU
- Companies will more and more look to IT to help them with their energy efficiency programs
- An heightened legislative emphasis on carbon reporting will spur the development of more carbon reporting software
- There will be greater and greater integration of carbon reporting functionality into ERP and financial reporting applications
- Standards will be agreed for energy and water footprint labels for products and services
- Water and energy footprint labels will be made mandatory in the EU
- At least one smart grid rollout in the US will fail spectacularly due, in large part, to poor stakeholder communications
- More and more Smart City initiatives will come on stream as cities aim to become more sustainable
- Mainstream car manufacturers will start to release plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles
- 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)
- Bluefin tuna stocks will crash in the atlantic
- It will be a record year for ice loss in the Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets
- It will be a record year for damage from hurricanes in the Atlantic and typhoons in the Pacific
- 2010 will be the warmest year on record due to the combined influence of El Niño and global warming
- The US will finally pass climate legislation limiting CO2 emissions (but it won’t go far enough!)
and a bonus prediction for good luck: