The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 53: 2025 in Review - Our 3 Top Sustainable Themes

SYNI, your hostess with plenty of gusto, launches into our Year End 2025 episode, reflecting on the three topics that most defined sustainable energy and development trends as we move into the New Year. Before we get into the substance, a quick note of appreciation. This year marks our first full year of podcasting, which in podcast terms is roughly the same as surviving a full year of budget season, just with fewer spreadsheets and more people listening. Thank you for riding with us week after week, for sharing episodes, for challenging our takes, and for staying curious in a field that rewards stamina as much as insight. As we reflect on 2025, we can now see in hindsight that it was a year of untidy narratives. Yet it was a year of the transition becoming operationally unavoidable. Solar turned into baseline infrastructure. Carbon turned into trade compliance. Hydrogen turned into grown up finance. The EU acted like a bloc that wants its transition to be durable, competitive, and enforceable. Global politics made that posture less optional than it might have seemed a few years ago.