Future Focus 2025: Pathways for Progress from the Network of Global Future Councils 2020–2022

Future Focus 2025: Pathways for Progress from the Network of Global Future Councils 2020-2022 offers a positive and inspiring agenda around which a sustainable and inclusive recovery can ...

A Blueprint for Equity and Inclusion in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential to benefit society, but the technology’s full potential can only be realized if it is representative of the diversity of populations it im...

Immersive Media Technologies: The Acceleration of Augmented and Virtual Reality in the Wake of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted whole economies. Immersive media businesses, which focus on technologies that create or imitate the physical world through digital simulation, have been no...

Engaging Affected Stakeholders: Guidance for Board Members on Human Rights

Companies face increasing scrutiny of their social and environmental performance from consumers, communities, workers, governments and investors. Business leaders are being urged to consi...

Conflict, Sanctions and the Future of World Trade

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been met with unprecedented trade and other economic sanctions. Some members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have revoked Russia’s most-favoured-...

Scaling Investments in Nature: The Next Critical Frontier for Private Sector Leadership

This White Paper authored by the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Nature-Based Solutions takes a practical look at the investment landscape for nature and Nature-based Solu...

Unlocking Business Model Innovation through Advanced Manufacturing

This White Paper outlines successful case studies from those who have already started to unlock business model innovation through the adoption of advanced manufacturing. It highlights fiv...

Global Risks Report 2022

World Economic Forum: This year's Report, shares the results of the latest Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS) in the context of the current global outlook, followed by an analysis of g...

The Rise and Role of the Chief Integrity Officer: Leadership Imperatives in an ESG-Driven World

Robust governance is a critical underlying factor in any strategic determination and execution of environmental and social commitments. Read more in this latest paper on integrity.

Sustainable Road Transport and Pricing

This White Paper, from the Global Future Council on Urban Mobility Transitions, evaluates road pricing mechanisms and calls for an acceleration towards equitable, clean and financially re...

Net-Zero to Net-Negative: A Guide for Leaders on Carbon Removal

To achieve the goal of a safe climate, we will need to both dramatically reduce emissions to achieve absolute zero greenhouse gases and simultaneously start reducing the stock of pollutan...

Revisiting and Realizing the Promises of Synthetic Biology

This report looks at synthetic biology’s embodiment and advancement of equity, humility, sustainability and solidarity over time: four values that are important in realizing its future be...

Getting to Net Zero: Increasing Clean Electrification by Empowering Demand

This Insight Report invites policy-makers, regulators and investors to place greater focus on the demand side of the electricity system. It presents the technology, business models and sy...

Global Future Council on Responsive Financial Systems: Three ways to accelerate a digital-led recovery

Global Future Council has been exploring means for financial system stakeholders to accelerate technology-enabled solutions. In this publication, they highlight 3 Accelerators - Digital I...

Space for Net Zero

Climate change is one of the greatest global challenges. The accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, particularly from anthropogenic emissions, is changing Earth’s climate at ...

Pathways to Digital Justice

This white paper, produced in collaboration with an advisory committee consisting of experts from around the world, is intended to guide policy efforts towards combating data-driven harms.

A Holistic Guide to Approaching AI Fairness Education in Organizations

The report can be used by diverse organizations to guide them in educating teams about their role in advancing AI fairness.

Building Back Broader: Policy Pathways for an Economic Transformation

This paper puts forward a set of six pathways to rapidly address longer-term dynamics of recovery while simultaneously building preparedness for future shocks.

Global Governance Toolkit for Digital Mental Health

This toolkit aims to provide stakeholders exploring the use of disruptive technologies in mental health with the tools to develop, adopt and engage standards and policies that address any...

Net-Zero Challenge: The supply chain opportunity

This report, co-authored with Boston Consulting Group, is the second in our series for the Net-Zero Challenge. It showcases the opportunity that all companies have for huge climate impact...

The Global Risks Report 2021

The 16th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report analyses the risks from societal fractures—manifested through persistent and emerging risks to human health, rising unem...

Net Zero Carbon Cities: An Integrated Approach

This report provides a global framework and recommends an integrated energy approach, defined as “systemic efficiency”, as a solution to the current environmental, economic, health and so...

Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2020

These are the most exciting technologies that emerged in 2020 and – according to our experts – have the greatest potential to positively transform society and industry. What opportunities...

The Future of Jobs Report 2020

After years of growing income inequality, concerns about technology-driven displacement of jobs, and rising societal discord globally, the combined health and economic shocks of 2020 have...

Markets of Tomorrow: Pathways to a New Economy

Twenty markets of tomorrow are considered promising in that they could support inclusive and sustainable revival of growth. A framework is provided to assess the maturity of these markets...

Dashboard for a New Economy Towards a New Compass for the Post-COVID Recovery

The report builds on the latest economic policy research as well as extensive consultations with the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the New Economic Agenda and a growing ...

Six ways space technologies benefit life on Earth

Advancing Digital Trade in Asia

Digital trade in Asia had been booming even before the COVID-19 pandemic that drove large numbers of firms and consumers online. The region has also been at the forefront of digital trade...

The Post-COVID-19 Financial System

In this publication members of the Global Future Council on Financial and Monetary Systems highlight how the financial system has rapidly adapted to the COVID-19 crisis, provided support ...

Cyber Information Sharing: Building Collective Security

Cybersecurity is one of the most systemically important issues facing the world today. Cyber information sharing is critical to helping better collective security in the digital ecosystem...

Six Qualities of Sustainable Infrastructure in Action

The power of infrastructure to shape economies and societies is enormous. Infrastructure underpins commercial life, provides vital social services and supports human interaction around th...

Digital Transformation: Powering the Great Reset

This paper offers an opening frame for a multiyear, cross-industry programme to co-create the new playbooks for executive decision-making and action in a post-pandemic business normal. It...

New Nature Economy Report II: The Future of Nature and Business

The Future of Nature and Business, prepared in collaboration with AlphaBeta is the second of three reports in the World Economic Forum’s New Nature Economy series. It provides the practic...

New Nature Economy Report Series

A series of reports showing the relevance of nature loss to boardroom discussions on risks and opportunities. These insights provide pathways for business to be part of the transition to ...

Global Future Council on Quantum Computing: Frequently Asked Questions

Quantum Computing may seem mysterious and not easy to understand. This FAQ document answers common questions at a high-level on what makes quantum computing so special and how we expect i...

Global Future Council on New Network Technologies - 5G: Society’s Essential Innovation Technology

The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on New Network Technologies, during its 2018-2020 term, focused on the benefits to society and the role of partnerships between government...

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 4.0: A toolkit for leaders to accelerate social progress in the future of work

The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Toolkit explores the practical opportunities and risks that rapidly emerging technologies represent for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The to...

Winning the Race for Survival: How New Manufacturing Technologies are Driving Business-Model Innovation

Sinking, swimming or surfing: Perspectives on operating and business models

How Can Trade Rules Support Environmental Action?

As governments and businesses grapple with the effects of COVID-19, other global challenges remain. Once the immediate crisis abates, countries must intensify environmental action to tack...

Guidelines for City Mobility: Steering towards collaboration

Developed by the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Mobility, the Guidelines for Transforming City Mobility Systems reflect shared goals for liveable and just transport netwo...

Shaping a Multiconceptual World

The 50th anniversary of the World Economic Forum coincides with a period of profound global change. These events prompted the Forum to draw on its network of diverse experts to develop a ...

Global Social Mobility Index 2020: why economies benefit from fixing inequality

The World Economic Forum has created a new index to measure social mobility, providing a much-needed assessment of the current state of social mobility worldwide.

Nature Risk Rising: Why the Crisis Engulfing Nature Matters for Business and the Economy

Nature Risk Rising, the first report in the NNE series, explains how nature-related risks matter to business, why they must be urgently mainstreamed into risk management strategies and wh...

Unlocking Technology for the Global Goals

In this report, developed in collaboration with PwC, we showcase the significant opportunity to harness new technologies for the Global Goals. Through analysis of over 300 technology appl...

Schools of the Future: Defining New Models of Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

“Schools of the Future: Defining New Models of Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution” outlines a new framework for defining quality education in the new economic and social conte...