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One Year Later: Climate-Positive Technologies

One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #9: Climate-Positive Technologies as part of my 30 Megatrends series.

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Publish Date2026-08-17
Updated Date2026-09-18
Observed Date2026-08-17
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Observed in Jim Carroll’s archive on August 17, 2026.

One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #9: Climate-Positive Technologies as part of my 30 Megatrends series.

Source: Megatrends One Year Later – #9: Climate-Positive Technologies – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening.

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TrendsClimate-Positive TechnologiesA growing set of technologies aims not only to reduce environmental impact but to remove, store or avoid emissions through new infrastructure and materials.IndustriesEnergy & UtilitiesThe grid is shifting from centralized delivery toward a distributed, storage-rich, software-defined energy platform.IndustriesConstruction & Real EstateThe built environment is becoming intelligent: designed in software, built with increasing automation and operated as a connected, energy-aware system.IndustriesManufacturing & IndustrialManufacturing is becoming an intelligent, adaptive system in which software, robotics, materials science and data increasingly define physical production.IndustriesGovernment & Public SectorPublic institutions must become more adaptive without sacrificing accountability as AI, digital services, infrastructure and citizen expectations accelerate.DomainsEnergy & EnvironmentElectrification, storage, renewables, grid reinvention and technologies reshaping the economics of energy and climate response.DomainsAdvanced MaterialsNew materials, nanotechnology and engineered substances that make products lighter, stronger, smarter and more adaptive.DomainsCities & InfrastructureSmart infrastructure, urban reinvention, resilient systems and the technology reshaping how places are built and operated.

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