The consumer sector is highly attuned to the risks and opportunities associated with climate change. While consumer pressure has propelled many to grasp the urgency with which to act, there are gaps the industry can close in the race to net-zero.

Read our complete report, Consumer business: Merging climate and business strategy to benefit the bottom line, for practical suggestions on getting started. Deloitte offers net-zero services to help the consumer industry close those gaps:

Automotive

• Future of mobility—Build strategy, design, and marketing services that can withstand changing consumer drivers for transportation and the challenges presented by environmental factors and climate change.

Consumer Products

• Product design—Incorporate qualitative and quantitative data on customer preferences for more environmentally and climate-friendly products as part of their design.
• Circular economy—Design, build, and market products and services that will be recycled through the economy by multiple customers, such as the reuse of e-waste and recycling goods into consumer products.

Retail, Wholesale & Distribution

• Green supply chains—Reduce environmental waste, carbon emissions, and inefficiencies along the supply chain and include partners who can help improve productivity and reduce costs.
• Smart agriculture—Plan better use of resources such as water and waste management, and innovate new solutions such as synthetics, driven by a deeper understanding of changing customer preferences.

Transportation, Hospitality & Services

• Sustainable travel—Cut emissions as part of transportation services by reducing fuel use, undertaking effective offsets, and upgrading technologies.
• Eco-travellers—Evolve products and services to be more environmentally focused and climate-aware while aligning with how customers use services while in transit to their destinations.

The path to a net-zero future is particularly complex and challenging for the energy, resources and industrials sectors. But decarbonization needn’t spell the end for them: responsible climate action and the goals of ERI companies are not mutually exclusive.

Organizations in this industry can jumpstart their decarbonization programs by reading our Energy and resources: Pioneering the transition to a low-carbon future report. Deloitte offers professional services designed to help the ERI industry forge a path to success:

Industrial Products & Construction

• Decarbonization of high emission organizations—Define a strategy and explore techniques such as simulation so companies with traditionally high emissions (aluminum, steelmaking, cement, etc.) can improve in areas such as energy use and emissions release.
• Product redesign—Improve the efficiency of resource use through new technologies, supply chain improvements, or simulation.

Mining & Metals

• Decarbonization of mining services—Identify supply chain and technology improvements to reduce emissions across core mining supply chains.
• Environmental business transformation—Develop a strategy to move away from mining of the most environmentally damaging resources and use existing assets to pivot to new ventures.

Oil, Gas & Chemicals

• Environmental business transformation—Build a strategy to move into multiple pathways related to decarbonization.

Power & Utilities

• Decarbonization of power and utilities—Define a strategy to shift from high emission fuel sources to renewable resources and the use of digital twins for planning and operations to provide confidence in complex decisions.
• Efficient operations—Use improved monitoring, analytics, and predictive maintenance powered by capabilities such as IoT to improve resource and energy waste.

Climate change is impacting all sectors in the financial services industry (FSI), presenting a multidimensional challenge that affects day-to-day operations as well as financing activities. As FSI executives consider the implications of climate change on their loan books, investments, risk profiles, and business models, they need to identify the interim steps required to reach long-range, net-zero targets.

Read our Financial services: Navigating the transition to a net-zero emissions future report for more information. FSI leaders know where they need to go. Deloitte offers services designed to help them get there:

Banking & Capital Markets

• Climate innovation solutions—Assist in the design of climate-friendly investment products and the marketing of those solutions.

Insurance

• Climate adaptive business strategy—Plan strategies for multiple scenarios that may arise due to climate change.
• Climate solutions—Design climate mitigation solutions for consumers and business customers as well as the go-to-market approach and marketing of those solutions.
• The insurance industry's path to ESG impact—Find out how insurers can set and execute their strategies to help bring ESG impact to life.

Investment Management

• Ethical investment products—Strategize the design, sales, and marketing of sustainability-oriented products and services.

Real Estate

• Climate adaptive business strategy—Plan strategies for multiple scenarios that may result due to climate change.
• Sustainable living design—Develop real estate design, sales, and marketing strategies for businesses and consumers that prioritize sustainability.
• The future of sustainable real estate is smart—How to convert decarbonization and net-zero challenges into new and profitable opportunities.

Citizens and market-driven pressures are now demanding Canada’s public sector develop comprehensive climate strategies, decarbonize, respond to increasingly unpredictable weather events, and support inclusive sustainable growth.

Deloitte can help agencies at all levels identify the unique opportunities climate transition presents to improve resilience, create economic growth, and better serve citizens. We offer a range of services across sectors:

Civil Government

• Future of work—Design jobs to respond to the new economic realities of Industry 4.0, including new technology roles and the transition from fossil fuel-intensive industries.
• Smart cities—Plan cities that are more productive and healthier, with greater use of clean energy, better resource and waste management, and improved private and public transport—and create the right design incentives so that citizens use those services.

Defence, Security & Justice

• Emergency response planning and operations—Develop plans and real-time operations for climate-related risks and disasters through digital twins, AI, and mission control management.

Health & Social Care

• Climate adaption strategy—Design health services to better respond to climate-related issues such as heat and asthma.

Transport

• Ground transport decarbonization—Optimize traffic to reduce fuel use through disruption and congestion management, and drive uptake of public transport through changes in customer behaviour.
• Aviation decarbonization—Reduce fuel use through routing optimization and improvements to delay management.
• Future of mobility—Plan for a future with a variety of new modes of transport in coordination with transitioning to a low-emission energy network.

How can technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) companies respond to the growing demand to address climate change? This sector permeates every part of Canadian lives, and therefore presents a unique opportunity for unparalleled impact on Canada's journey toward climate action and sustainability.

Here’s how we can help TMT organizations along the way:

• Decarbonization of core technologies—Reduce emissions for products that require a lot of energy, such as data centres, 5G, and large volumes of computers, through improved energy management, the purchase and generation of renewable energy, and the purchase of offsets.

• Low emission consumer products—Develop strategies to decarbonize core technologies, then design and go to market with products and services targeted to the consumers most interested in those offerings.
• Sustainable digital transformation—Move customers and employee interactions into the digital realm and use technologies that keep digital emissions in check.