Policymakers and industry leaders increasingly recognize the urgent need to decarbonize while ensuring reliable and affordable access to electricity. Rising demand from AI data centers, hydrogen production, and industrial electrification is straining conventional grids and highlighting the limitations of a renewables-only approach to decarbonization. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are gaining traction as a vital pathway to achieve deep decarbonization, offering compact, modular nuclear plants with enhanced safety, flexible siting options, and faster deployment than traditional nuclear reactors. However, international progress in expanding nuclear capacity remains uneven. Effective SMR adoption must align energy independence, regulatory innovation, and industrial competitiveness to deliver long-term resilience. Technology advances, diverse reactor types, and global investment momentum are making SMRs practical, economically viable, and increasingly essential to future energy strategies. In this report, we focus on the commercialization prospects of SMR technologies and how they can potentially reshape the global clean-energy landscape.

As the global push for decarbonization intensifies, hydrogen has emerged as a key enabler of deep emissions reductions. While today’s hydrogen economy remains predominantly fossil-based, growing momentum around green and low-carbon hydrogen is catalyzing a strategic shift. This transformation is vital for achieving net-zero targets and building a flexible, resilient, and integrated energy system. Despite the progress, many advanced hydrogen technologies are still maturing, offering untapped potential for cost reduction, efficiency gains, and wider adoption. This report examines the evolving hydrogen technology landscape, with a focus on innovations across production, storage, transport, and end-use applications. On the production side, it highlights advances in green hydrogen through electrolysis, particularly Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (SOECs) and Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM) systems, alongside developments in turquoise hydrogen pathways. Storage and transport innovations extend beyond conventional compression or liquefaction, spotlighting novel chemical carriers such as ammonia and Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs), as well as solid-state hydrogen storage systems designed for decentralized and mobile uses. The report highlights how these next-generation technologies are shaping the future hydrogen economy, unlocking new possibilities in industrial decarbonization, clean mobility, and grid-scale energy systems. It explores the key drivers accelerating their development, assesses techno-economic dynamics, and examines policy, funding, and infrastructure enables key for commercialization. By offering a strategic view of emerging hydrogen innovations, application readiness, and market viability, this report equips stakeholders with actionable insights to navigate the complex transition toward a clean hydrogen-powered future.

Policymakers and industry leaders increasingly recognize the urgent need to address climate change by reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and mitigating the growing risks of extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and other climate-related disasters. To prevent irreversible damage, deep decarbonization strategies must include proactive and preventive measures. Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) plays a vital role in attaining deep decarbonization, particularly in sectors that are difficult to decarbonize, such as cement, steel, and chemicals. However, international progress in reducing GHG emissions remains limited. Effective carbon abatement must ensure access to reliable and affordable energy while fostering economic development to improve living standards. Technology innovations in CCU and achieving economies of scale are essential to make decarbonization practical and economically viable. In this report, we focus on the growing adoption of CCU technology pathways and how it helps achieve decarbonization.

Achieving sustainability will require decarbonizing the energy and transportation sectors, as well as the broader industrial supply chain. Equally essential are responsible practices for resource sourcing, utilization, and end-of-life management. Everest Group’s The Top 10 Game-changing Sustainability Technologies report explores the key technologies redefining the sector, with a focus on three key trends: energy transition, industrial and transportational decarbonization, and sustainable supply chain and circular economy. The report provides in-depth insights into breakthrough innovations, including third-generation solar technologies, small modular reactors, solid-state batteries, high-temperature electrolyzers, liquid organic hydrogen carriers, carbon capture, utilization and storage, waste valorization, bio-inspired plastics, and advanced oxidation processes. Scope Industry: sustainability Geography: all geographies

As global demand for electric vehicles and stationary energy storage surges, the limitations of conventional lithium-ion batteries, such as supply chain challenges, energy density caps, and safety risks, are becoming increasingly apparent. These barriers prompt a paradigm shift in battery R&D, spurring global momentum toward next-generation battery chemistries that promise to be safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. This report examines the evolving battery innovation landscape, with a specific focus on emerging chemistries including Solid-state Batteries (SSBs), Sodium-ion Batteries (SIBs), Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (LSBs), Metal-air Batteries (MABs), and Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) batteries. Each of these chemistries has unique attributes that address traditional lithium-ion systems’ core limitations. The report highlights how these innovations are shaping the future of battery R&D, emphasizing their role in enabling long-duration storage, decarbonizing transport and industry, and supporting renewable energy integration. It explores the driving forces behind their development. It also maps the technology landscape by cost, performance, and scalability, and profiles the leading innovators and stakeholders advancing commercialization. By offering a forward-looking view into emerging battery adoption, R&D trends, application fit, and investment activity, the report equips decision-makers with key insights to navigate the complex transition toward next-generation energy storage solutions. Scope Geography: all Industry: energy, environment, energy storage Contents In this report, we examine batteries, with a major focus on emerging battery chemistries, including SSBs, SIBs, LSBs, MABs, and LMFP batteries.

Policymakers and industrial stakeholders globally are striving to transition to a low-carbon economy to achieve net-zero targets in the long term. However, sectors such as aviation, shipping, long-distance transport, and heavy industries have difficulty decarbonizing using direct electrification. These hard-to-abate sectors need large-scale, high-energy-density feedstocks to decarbonize. Hydrogen is the ideal energy carrier, enabling energy diversification when produced through renewable energy, significantly reducing emissions while aiding policymakers to meet long-term pledges. Additionally, renewable energy sources are highly intermittent, leading to fluctuations in renewable energy storage. Power-to-X (PtX) technology advances help convert surplus renewable energy into stable energy carriers, such as hydrogen and its derivatives, including Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), methanol, ammonia, and synthetic methane, for aviation, maritime, agriculture, and chemicals industries. PtX efficiently harnesses renewable energy by producing synthetic fuels, chemicals, and other specialty compounds. It also reduces carbon emissions and minimizes dependency on fossil fuels. In this report, we analyze the growing PtX technology adoption across industries and how it aids decarbonization. Scope Geography: all Industry: energy, environment, and transportation Contents In this report, we examine: The PtX technology landscape and its significant pathways Key factors driving R&D and adoption Key technology developers, regulations, and techno-economic analysis PtX technologies’ future trajectory

The Food and Beverage (F&B) and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industries are significantly transforming, driven by shifting consumer preferences, regulatory frameworks, and technology advances. Sustainability has become a key focus, with regulations defining sustainability and emission mandates and consumers seeking environment-friendly and ethically produced products. In response, companies are adopting sustainable practices, such as reducing waste, incorporating alternative and naturally derived ingredients, and developing new product formats and environmentally benign processes to meet consumer expectations and regulatory requirements. Simultaneously, technology advances are revolutionizing how companies approach R&D, product development, and manufacturing, redefining how consumers interact with brands. Data analytics and automation are enhancing operational efficiency, enabling companies to streamline supply chains, optimize inventory management, and improve production processes – all essential to staying competitive in a rapidly evolving market landscape. The Top 10 Game-changing F&B and CPG Technologies industry report spotlights 10 key technologies set to revolutionize these sectors, highlighting their applications, benefits, and potential challenges. Scope Industry: F&B, retail, CPG, personal care, and FMCG All geographies Contents Technologies covered in the report include: Advanced fermentation Synthetic biology advances Upcycled packaging Plant-based alternatives Water-less technologies Digital augmentation for product development Trackability and traceability technologies Functional ingredients Non-thermal processing technologies Nutricosmetics

With technology advances, changing customer behaviors, and evolving regulatory landscapes driving rapid transformations across industries, it has become critical for business leaders to anticipate future technology trends and act on them. The Top 10 Game-changing Technologies in the Automotive Industry report spotlights 10 key technologies poised to revolutionize the pharmaceutical sector, highlighting their applications, benefits, and potential challenges.