"For technology leaders, this year has been defined less by what to promise and more by how to deliver. The conversation has matured, but unevenly. Some organisations are now treating sustainability as an organisational capability, whilst others are still trying to reconcile their ambitions with fragmented systems and incomplete data. The task for 2026 will be to embed sustainability into the digital and operational fabric of business - to move decisively from strategy to systems."
"If 2024 was the year when businesses spoke about sustainability with renewed urgency, 2025 has been the year that they started to speak about it differently. The language has become more grounded, less rhetorical. Senior IT and business leaders are talking in terms of data quality, interoperability, and assurance. They are less interested in sweeping pledges and more concerned with the actual mechanics of delivery."
Sustainability has moved to the centre of corporate operations, requiring integration into digital and operational design. Technology leaders prioritise delivery mechanics, emphasising data quality, interoperability, and assurance over rhetorical pledges. Some organisations develop sustainability as an organisational capability; others face fragmented systems and incomplete data. Regulatory easing shifted enforcement pressure toward lenders, investors, and customers who demand investor-grade sustainability data comparable to financial reporting. CIOs and technology directors are accountable for infrastructure to measure, manage, and verify environmental impact. The 2026 priority is embedding sustainability into systems to enable reliable, auditable, and operationally scalable outcomes.
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