Key Trends shaping Sustainability in 2025
This short course provides the context needed to navigate 2025’s shifting sustainability landscape with confidence, relevance, and strategic foresight. Learners will strengthen their ability to talk about sustainability with fluency, understand its intersection with geopolitics, and stay current with evolving regulations. The course also highlights the role of emerging technologies and anticipates key risks and opportunities.
Course curriculum
The short course consists of 10 brief lessons covering the leading trends shaping sustainability for business:
- TREND 1 – Defending sustainability in a volatile and fragmented world
- TREND 2 – Taking systemic action on physical impacts
- TREND 3 – Regulation starts to bite but faces winds of change
- TREND 4 – Getting real on transition planning
- TREND 5 – Mounting societal pressures
- TREND 6 – A critical COP 30 where climate meets nature
- TREND 7 – Transformational opportunities of the green economy
- TREND 8 – Value chains in focus
- TREND 9 – Mainstreaming sustainability upskilling
- TREND 10 – Sust – AI – nability
Target audience
For professionals from all functions
Course duration
Asynchronous and self-paced
(approx. 60 minutes)
Course authors
WBCSD
Pricing
| Number of licenses | Price (Swiss Francs) |
|---|---|
| 1 | CHF 25 (excl. VAT) |
WBCSD Academy Licenses member offer:
Members enjoy 25% discount on all license fees
Volume discounts apply to 100 licenses or more.