With the use of a new robotics application called 'microfulfillment', Grocery retailing will no longer look the same. Historically, robotics has turned around many industries, while a few select sectors - such as grocery retail - have remained largely untouched. We’ll see a diversity of new technologies aimed at both reducing and removing the world’s emissions – unleashing a wave of innovation to compare with the industrial and digital Revolutions of the past. The creation of a sustainable, net-zero future will be built through a far-reaching energy transformation that significantly reduces the world’s carbon emissions, and through the emergence of a massive carbon management industry that captures, utilizes and eliminates carbon dioxide. Individuals, companies and countries will seek the quickest and most affordable ways to achieve net-zero – the elimination of their carbon footprint.
Public attention will drive government policy and behavioural changes, with carbon footprints becoming a subject of worldwide scrutiny. The COVID-19 pandemic will have focused the public’s attention on the need to take action to deal with threats to our way of life, our health and our future. In 2025, carbon footprints will be viewed as socially unacceptable, much like drink driving is today.