What can patent data reveal about global progress in green innovation, and what might be achieved next?
Now in its fifth year, the Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report combines patent-filing trends with industry context to get behind the rhetoric, and shed light on the state of progress in the development of green technologies.
Read the brand-new 5th Edition, or explore previous editions below.
What’s new in the 5th Edition (released October 2025):
Five years of consistent, comparable analysis helps distinguish short-term hype from durable progress – across countries, companies and technologies. While we’ve kept some long-standing topics in the report to track these trends, this year we also broadened our coverage to follow certain technologies downstream. As such, our report spans four pillars:
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Energy: Batteries; Wind.
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AI: Power management for AI data centres; AI & automation in aerospace.
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Materials: Biodegradable & compostable materials (incl. bioplastics & packaging); Sustainable chemical feedstocks (incl. plastics recycling, agricultural waste, biomass); Decarbonising key industries (Ammonia; Methanol).
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Food: Alternative proteins (Plant-based, Cultivated, Insect).
Read the reports:
Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report – Fifth Edition (October 2025)
Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report – Fourth Edition (November 2024)
Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report – Third Edition (November 2023)
Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report – Second Edition (November 2022)
Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report – First Edition (November 2021)
