OpenMinds x Bain Partnership

OpenMinds and Bain & Company are partners in driving progress towards the Dual Challenge by 203X; together we set the stage for profound impact.

The two organizations combine our complementary strengths, knowledge, and experience:

OpenMinds has a diverse, non-partisan network of climate & energy leaders and a focus on impact by 203X...
Bain supplements with global scale, deep industry expertise, and advanced analytics capabilities.

Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm, renowned for its deep expertise in driving transformative change for clients across industries.

With a strong commitment to delivering exceptional results, Bain & Company has earned a reputation for being at the forefront of strategic innovation and thought leadership.

Bain’s expertise encompasses strategy, marketing, organization, operations, information technology, digital transformation and strategy, advanced analytics, transformations, sustainability, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies.

Learn more about Bain & Company's expertise

Uniquely collaborative culture

Bain works alongside clients as one team, caring about the client's business as if it were their own

Integrated innovation

Bain's tailored, integrated expertise is complemented by a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes, including 17 innovators focused on climate and sustainability

Transformative change

Bain's proprietary Results Delivery approach improves clients' capacity for change and delivers sustained results

Deep expertise

Bain's global network includes 1,400+ experts with sustainability experience

Proven results

Bain has successfully driven 700+ energy transition projects across industries, driving financial and social impact across regions

Bain & Company’s annual Energy & Natural Resources Executed Survey polled over 700 industry executives across the global to get a sense of industry leaders’ views on the energy transition’s challenges and opportunities and to understand how they’re balancing those investments with other business priorities.

The 2025 edition shows an increasing percentage of industry executives believing net zero looks much farther away. About 44% of respondents expect net-zero emissions by 2070 or later, while only 32% expect it by 2050—a reversal from previous surveys.

The results make clear that what has been described as an energy transition is better understood as a dual challenge of delivering ever-increasing volumes of energy—driven by growing prosperity in lower-income countries and accelerating demand in the developed world—while simultaneously pushing to decarbonize.

Discover Bain & Company's perspective on the energy transition by accessing the full report here.