Deloitte HORIZONS 2025
Where possibility meets progress
Climate Week NYC 2025 may be over, but Deloitte HORIZONS is just getting started. Together, we're looking beyond the visible landscape, driving progress toward a future marked by sustainable growth, opportunity, and abundance.
“It doesn’t matter what industry we’re in; we’re all human beings. At its root, sustainability is a human story.”
Céline Cousteau, Reimagine What’s Possible keynote
The moments that moved us
Relive the highlights from HORIZONS 2025, where thinkers, dreamers, and doers came together to reimagine sustainability—looking beyond compliance to envision nature and growth co-existing in the boardroom.
Powered by passion. Fueled by innovation.
Throughout HORIZONS, Deloitte convened leaders from across industries to lead engaging conversations, ideating solutions to the most pressing challenges on the business agenda.
Insights from HORIZONS 2025
Unpack six key takeaways from our Climate Week NYC experience to help expand your action and enhance your impact.
Technology is a force multiplier for impact.
While technology is not a panacea, digital innovations like AI, geospatial data, IoT, and more can offer us powerful new levers to pull in accelerating progress. When implemented with care and vision, technology can bolster human ingenuity and help drive lasting positive results.
Finance has the power to fuel broad, sustained progress.
Bold, innovative financial models and investment mechanisms can help unlock sustainability solutions at scale, reinforcing the idea that transformation is possible, and it can be profitable. Creating trust and accountability in capital flows—and aligning them to sustainability objectives—are important for delivering tangible benefits.
System advantage and competitive advantage are not mutually exclusive.
Intentional, cross-sector collaboration, including businesses, financiers, and communities, is essential for accelerating sustainability and building resilience. Covered in sessions across the energy and circularity tracks, cooperative action offers a system advantage that benefits everyone, without limiting opportunities for businesses to build competitive advantage from a level playing field.
Net positive is the new net zero.
Sustainability trailblazers are making the shift toward net positive, regenerative practices and updating organizational sustainability goals accordingly. Genuine sustainability leadership supports transparent goals and clear accountability to support both ecosystems and communities—giving everyone a stake in a thriving future
Measurable action drives meaningful change.
Sustainability initiatives are increasingly evaluated by measurable outcomes, not intentions. Agile leadership, creative problem-solving, frequent stakeholder engagement, and data-driven insights should work in tandem to deliver quantifiable, lasting value—whether through energy resilience, economic gains, or enhanced community well-being.
Imagination bridges possibility and progress.
The significance of creative thinking, agile leadership, and a willingness to experiment cannot be understated. Approaching challenges with imagination and a sense of possibility is helping organizations and communities turn risk into opportunity, and cultivating a creative mindset is increasingly linked to sustainable long-term value.
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