Highlights from previous summits
McKinsey’s Green Business Building Global Summit 2024 in Stockholm gathered over 500 business leaders from corporations, start-ups, and investors to share ideas and best practices for hyperscaling green ambitions. This year’s insights focused on how climate tech companies can reduce costs and scale faster by adopting an aggressive strategy.
Blog Post
Green business building: Potential and challenges in Central Europe
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McKinsey’s 2024 Green Business Building Summit in Warsaw highlighted the opportunity for Central European businesses to accelerate the green transition while helping close the European GDP gap.
Article
A radical approach to cost reduction at climate tech companies
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The single most effective way for companies to scale climate technology is to aim for cost parity with carbon-intensive alternatives.
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Interview
How HP is finding success in circularity
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Selling refurbished PCs and printers is at least as profitable as selling new ones, says HP Workforce Solutions president Dave Shull. Here’s how the company is scaling up its circular business.
Article
Full throttle on net zero: Creating value in the face of uncertainty
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To thrive amid shocks to the net-zero economy, leaders are shifting strategies to position themselves to win when the skies clear up.
Report
What would it take to scale critical climate technologies?
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Many of the climate technologies needed to achieve deep decarbonization already exist. The challenge now is accelerating innovation and scale-up to achieve technical and commercial breakthroughs.
Report
Carbon removals: How to scale a new gigaton industry
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CO2 removal (CDR) capacity is far from the gigaton scale needed to round out businesses’ net-zero efforts by 2050. We explore a mature CDR market’s potential and possible first-mover advantages.
Interview
Henrik Henriksson: Rapidly scaling a green steel start-up
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Henrik Henriksson, CEO of H2 Green Steel, talks about the challenges and successes in founding a green business start-up and out-executing peers in a competitive environment.
Article
Decarbonize and create value: How incumbents can tackle the steep challenge
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While the task is not easy, incumbents—including those in hard-to-abate sectors—can decarbonize and generate value through a series of key actions.
Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
How to accelerate innovation in new green business building
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Companies that want to scale quickly must cultivate deep market knowledge and a culture that embraces learning through failure.
Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
How a Spanish scale-up became a leader in green energy
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Holaluz cofounder Carlota Pi Amorós details her ambition for the start-up to become a decentralized energy-as-a-service green-tech company.
Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
Launching net-zero businesses: Lessons from a digital leader
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Many companies are hustling to start low-carbon businesses. Ram Ramachander works at the speed of a start-up and with the backing of a corporation.
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