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Our climate future largely depends on whether Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) can successfully transition to cleaner energy systems. For these countries, accelerating th...
According to World Health Organization (WHO) data, 99% of the world’s population lives in places where air pollution levels exceed WHO guideline limits. Exposure to air pollution increase...
Led by the World Economic Forum, the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance is the largest global initiative aiming at ensuring responsible and ethical use of smart cit...
From drones that detect illegal fishing and robots that sort plastic waste, to sustainable solutions for the world’s forests and remote learning tools for students struggling during the C...
Cities across the world account for most of our carbon emissions and energy use, yet they cover only 3% of the earth’s land surface. As the global population grows, so does new constructi...
The Quantum Technologies: Key Strategies and Opportunities for Financial Services white paper assess the current state of quantum applications in financial services.
The Global Economic Futures: Competitiveness in 2030 report, developed in collaboration with Accenture, explores the future of competitiveness through the interaction of geopolitics and r...
After several years of slow momentum, energy transition progress has accelerated, according to the World Economic Forum's Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2025 report. The Energy Tra...
Tokenization offers a new model of digital asset ownership that enhances transparency, efficiency and accessibility. This report analyses asset class use cases in issuance, securities fin...
The Quantum Technologies: Key Strategies and Opportunities for ICT Leaders 2025 report offers solutions and regulatory frameworks informed by industry case studies and expert insights.
The Unleashing the Full Potential of Industrial Clusters: Infrastructure Solutions for Clean Energies report examines the challenges around clean energy infrastructure deployment and iden...
The Global Economic Futures: Productivity in 2030 report explores how the interaction of technology and human capital are shaping the future of productivity and sets out four scenarios fo...
Following the European elections in June 2024, the European Green Deal remains the central policy blueprint for achieving climate neutrality by 2050.
Quantum sensing, quantum communication and security, quantum computing
The Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 examines the cybersecurity trends that will affect economies and societies in the year to come.
This comprehensive white paper addresses the critical challenges and opportunities presented to both businesses and consumers by the increased demand for urban deliveries. It outlines str...
The third edition of the Net-Zero Industry Tracker provides a detailed analysis of the progress hard-to-abate industrial and transport sectors are making worldwide in their efforts to ach...
This report translates Earth systems science into business and societal resilience, showing what companies can do to address growing climate risks.
Shared Commitments in a Blended Reality: Advancing Governance in the Future Internet 2024
The industrial sector in China accounts for more than half of global production of many key bulk materials such as steel, aluminium and cement, and nearly half of all chemicals and paper....
At COP28, 22 countries committed to triple global nuclear power capacity by 2050 – since then, they have been joined by 14 major banks and additional countries. To meet net-zero commitmen...
The Governance in the Age of Generative AI: A 360° Approach for Resilient Policy and Regulation 2024 report
This new insight report aims to raise awareness of quantum technologies’ power to tackle humanity’s most pressing challenges, from large-scale decarbonization to the design of new solar c...
This report examines how Latin America can leverage its abundant solar, wind and hydroelectric resources to become a key player in the global clean hydrogen export market, while helping t...
The Future of Financial Advice 2024 white paper delves into transformative trends in financial advice and emphasizes its pivotal role in major life decisions.
Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2024 is the latest in the Energy Report Series from the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Accenture. Read the complete report here.
As cities grow in population and importance, urban construction will continue to gather pace. It is estimated that global floor area is expected to double by 2060, the equivalent of addin...
The Modernizing Financial Markets with Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (wCBDC) 2024 report seeks to improve the efficiency, security and inclusivity of the financial system, pavin...
The Defining and Building the Metaverse initiative's new report explores identity in the metaverse.
At the brink of a new phase of the industrial revolution, the Navigating the Industrial Metaverse: A Blueprint for Future Innovations report draws on insights from over 150 experts, advoc...
The World Economic Forum's Digital Trust: Supporting Individual Agency 2024 discusses the large group of stakeholders who use or otherwise interact with digital technologies and how prote...
This briefing paper series, representing collective insights, establishes foundational focus areas for steering AI's development, adoption and governance. The AI Governance Alliance serve...
This report examines the actions undertaken by the World Economic Forum’s CEO Action Group for the European Green Deal, using examples and experiences in various areas and placing Group-s...
The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024 examines the cybersecurity trends that will affect economies and societies in the year to come. The 2024 report illuminates ...
How partnerships, policy, financing and technology inform industrial clusters' strategies to reach net zero.
People-positive buildout of clean power is essential for the energy transition and for achieving socio-economic and development goals.
This white paper leverages the Forum’s digital trust framework, a decision aid for leaders as they navigate how to earn digital trust, and defines measures to help them evaluate an organi...
In this report, the governance workstream emphasizes the need for worldwide collaboration among various stakeholders, including academics, regulators, policy-makers and design teams, to n...
In this report, the social value creation workstream presents a holistic understanding of the implications of metaverse adoption on individuals, across the dimensions of access and adopti...
本报告以世界经济论坛“绿氢加速倡议”的工作为基础，描绘了中国在 2030 年前实现绿色氢能目标的路径，该倡议已为欧洲和日本制定了相似的发展路径。通过对中国绿氢市场进行深入分析，本报告提出了克服中国绿色氢能市场发展关键障碍的六大目标以及 35 项扶持措施和建议，着重强调通过行业内、区域间和国际合作，建立起新的能源供应体系和完整的氢能供应链。
This insight report highlights the experiences and perspectives of 11 industrial clusters that are a part of the Transitioning Industrial Clusters towards Net Zero initiative. These clust...
The first in a series of four briefing papers, this one will focus on consumer applications in the Metaverse, with of goal of presenting the different use cases for consumer-facing organi...
The second in a series of four briefing papers, this one will focus on interoperability in the Metaverse, with of goal of presenting the risks and potential solutions to these risks. The ...
The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023, in collaboration with Accenture, examines the cybersecurity trends that will impact our economies and societies in the year t...
We are in the grip of an unprecedented global energy crisis, but short-term fixes will lead to a bleak future – to achieve energy security and sustainability, the only solution is to acce...
As the travel and tourism (T&T) industry recovers from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the urgency of the need to combat climate change and other sustainability challenges has in...
Digital trust is the expectation by individuals that digital technologies and services – and the organizations providing them – will protect all stakeholders’ interests and uphold societa...
The global financial system is undergoing several simultaneous transformations. Digitalization and democratizations are reshaping how capital markets operate. Both investors and corporate...
Has the war in Ukraine and the resulting pressure on energy prices stalled the move away from fossil fuels? The World Economic Forum's 'Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2022' report ...
Paul Daugherty is the Chief Technology Officer at Accenture and co-author of Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future. In this episode, he discu...
Ahead of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, we look at two issues that will be at the heart of many discussions: energy and jobs. We discuss a new report, Securing the...
On Day 3 at Davos 2023, we enter the metaverse to experience the Forum’s Global Collaboration Village, hear why inflation may have peaked, but prices haven’t, and speak to astronaut Matth...
If you’re lucky enough to have some spare cash to invest, how do you decide where to put it? In the past few years the answer to that question may have changed. The rise of robo-advisers ...
As technology becomes increasingly intertwined in our daily lives and important for driving development and prosperity, questions of safety, human interaction and trust become critical to...
The development of generative AI has catapulted AI technology to one of the fastest and most impactful innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. From creation to production and dis...
With the education industry at a pivotal point of transformation driven by AI and innovative teaching methodologies, new education hotspots are emerging to address the growing and diversi...
