Business Breakthrough Barometer 2025 is the second annual pulse check from leading businesses on the opportunities and challenges of the net-zero transition. It provides the latest insights from industries responsible for over 50% of global emissions and highlights where governments can best focus effort to create stronger market incentives for investment.

Developed by WBCSD with the support of Bain & Company along with the Breakthrough Agenda, Marrakech Partnership, and Race to Zero, this flagship report covers sectors including power, hydrogen, fertilizer, road transport, steel, cement and concrete, and buildings. Based on survey data, interviews, sector dialogues, and current trends, the Barometer provides an overview of the energy and industry transitions in 2025, plus concise summaries for each sector on the actions businesses are taking, the barriers they are facing, and what is required to scale up investment faster.

About WBCSD

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a community of about 230 global businesses that are making sustainability performance a key driver for competitiveness. Established in 1995, WBCSD is a nonprofit member-led organization that connects business leaders across all sectors and major economies, creating tools and frameworks to scale collective impact, power cross-sector innovation, and shape an ambitious, enabling policy agenda. It operates from seven offices worldwide—in Geneva, New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, London, Singapore, and Wuhan—enabling collaboration across value chains and geographies. Together with its members, WBCSD is rewiring economic and financial systems to support the transition to a net-zero, nature-positive, and inclusive future that creates business value.