For business leaders, building green businesses is a priority—and a major opportunity. Ninety-two percent of executives say that they will build new businesses that address sustainability to some extent, and 42 percent expect to put sustainability at the center of their new businesses’ value proposition, according to Leap by McKinsey’s state of new-business building report. So what does green businesses mean for spending, output, and job creation for eight industries including steel, power, food & agriculture, and forestry? Check out a series of interactive timelines by senior partners Hamid Samandari and Humayun Tai, and their coauthors, and explore what a net-zero transition could look like for each industry.
Spotting green business opportunities in a surging net-zero world
Transition to net zero: Fossil fuels
Transition to net zero: Buildings
Transition to net zero: Cement
Transition to net zero: Road mobility