Accelerating deployment of net-zero technologies
Climate Technology
“There’s no doubt in my mind about the financial success that companies engaging in building and deploying new climate technologies are going to achieve,” explains McKinsey senior partner Mark Patel.
Featured technology areas
- Hydrogen
- Batteries
- Energy Storage
- Sustainable fuels
- CCUS & Carbon removals
- Natural capital and nature
- Green built environments
- Renewables
- Nuclear fission and fusion
- Circular technologies
- Alternative proteins and sustainable agriculture
Featured partnerships
Frontier
Frontier is the over $1 billion advance market commitment (AMC) to purchase permanent carbon removal before 2030, by McKinsey Sustainability in partnership with fellow founders Alphabet, Meta, Shopify and Stripe. Frontier aims to accelerate the development of permanent carbon removal technologies and expand the global supply of carbon removal.
Net Zero Built Environment Council
The Net Zero Built Environment Council aims to accelerate the decarbonization of the built environment. The council brings together a group of over 40 companies across the built environment ecosystem, and McKinsey Sustainability is a founding partner.
Hydrogen Council
The Hydrogen Council is a global CEO-led initiative with a united vision and long-term ambition for hydrogen to foster the clean energy transition. As a knowledge partner to the council, we jointly publish reports on topics such as the state of the global hydrogen economy.
Long Duration Energy Storage Council
As a knowledge partner of the LDES Council, we are creating a series of new insights and reports to help accelerate the path to net-zero energy systems, from decarbonizing the grid with 24/7 clean power purchase agreements to long-duration energy storage for a renewable grid and net-zero heat.
Coalition for Negative Emissions
We partnered with the Coalition for Negative Emissions to research, write, and disseminate the case for negative emissions, an exhaustive analysis of negative emissions solutions and their centrality to achieving 1.5°-degree pathways.
Our People
Bernd Heid
Senior PartnerNew York
Leads the McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies and work in hydrogen globally; serves clients in the mobility and energy...
Mark Patel
Senior PartnerBay Area - San Francisco
Advises clients across sectors on sustainability with a focus on climate technologies; leads client work across industrial, high-tech,...
Martin Linder
Senior PartnerMunich
Leads the Firm’s Battery Accelerator Team; global colead for the McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies as well as our sustainability...
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FEATURED INSIGHTS
Podcast
Forward Thinking on the tricky business of removing carbon from our world with Nan Ransohoff
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A leading market maker for investment in carbon removal believes that tackling climate change has to be done quickly, but that the problem is tractable.
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...
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...
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...
Article
What will it take for nuclear power to meet the climate challenge?
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Nuclear power can be an important part of the energy transition. Scaling the industry to meet increasing electricity demand will...
Article
CO2 removal solutions: A buyer’s perspective
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As climate change impact becomes increasingly apparent, the adoption of decarbonization commitments is accelerating. Companies...
Article
Battery 2030: Resilient, sustainable, and circular
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Battery demand is growing—and so is the need for better solutions along the value chain.
Report
Nature in the balance: What companies can do to restore natural capital
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Specific corporate actions, many with a positive return on investment, could help reverse the trend of the depletion of natural...
Article
The clean hydrogen opportunity for hydrocarbon-rich countries
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Hydrogen could play an important role in helping hard-to-abate sectors meet climate targets. Countries with hydrocarbon resources...
Report
Net-zero heat: Long-duration energy storage to accelerate energy system decarbonization
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Thermal energy storage has the potential to greatly contribute to decarbonizing global heat and power, while helping to ensure...
Article
Accelerating green growth in the built environment
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The industries that make up the built environment are highly fragmented and slow to change. Creating green growth requires shifts...
Article
Five charts on hydrogen’s role in a net-zero future
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Hydrogen has great potential as a carbon-free energy carrier. Here’s a look at the momentum behind this widely applicable technology....
Article
Will fusion energy help decarbonize the power system?
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Nuclear fusion has long been considered a near-impossible clean-energy solution. But technological advances—and the need...
Article
Climate tech competitiveness: Can the United States raise its game?
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The United States has an opportunity to turn its innovation advantage in climate technologies into the basis for a thriving manufacturing...
Article
Decarbonizing the grid with 24/7 clean power purchase agreements
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In the global struggle to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable power is taking an ever-increasing share of generation capacity....
Article
Delivering the climate technologies needed for net zero
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Developing and deploying climate technologies is critical for the world’s net-zero agenda. Growth could await businesses willing...
Report
Net-zero power: Long-duration energy storage for a renewable grid
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As the world transitions to decarbonized energy systems, emerging long-duration energy storage technologies will be critical...