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Artificial Intelligence
Rethinking AI Sovereignty: Pathways to Competitiveness through Strategic Investments
Rethinking AI Sovereignty: Pathways to Competitiveness through Strategic Investments examines how economies can strengthen AI competitiveness through strategic investment choices, resilie...
Food, Water and Clean Air
First Movers Coalition for Food: CEO Lessons for the Future of Food Procurement
Global food supply chains are being challenged by pressures ranging from geopolitical shifts and population growth to rising climate and nature impacts. Businesses face growing urgency to...
Energy Transition
Fuelling the Future: How Business, Finance and Policy can Accelerate the Clean Fuels Market
Amid rising global energy demand and evolving market dynamics, clean fuels are a key pillar for a more secure, affordable and sustainable energy system. Examples ranging from biofuels, e-...
Circular Economy
Circular Transformation of Industries: The Art of Scaling Circular Supply Chains
Circular Transformation of Industries: The Art of Scaling Circular Supply Chains 2025 proposes strategies to cultivate circularity across sectors.
Climate Action and Waste Reduction
Asia's Carbon Markets: Strategic Imperatives for Corporations
The climate finance gap of Asia-Pacific countries is $800 billion on an annual basis. Carbon markets can be a means to provide the resources needed to catalyse and secure a more orderly c...
Climate Action and Waste Reduction
Circular Transformation of Industries: Unlocking Economic Value
Businesses across industries increasingly recognize the potential of circularity to create value through revenue growth, increased resilience, sustainability and cost reduction. The perce...
Climate Action and Waste Reduction
Prioritizing Sustainability in MENA: Mapping Critical Environmental Issues for Regional Businesses
Pressure is growing on companies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to accelerate their progress on sustainability. To achieve this will require regional guidelines, materiality a...
Circular Economy
Circular Transformation of Industries: The Role of Partnerships
Unveiling the transformative potential of circularity in industry, this white paper delves into the vital role of partnerships as a fundamental catalyst to pave the way for a sustainable,...
Nature and Biodiversity
100 Million Farmers: Breakthrough Models for Financing a Sustainability Transition
This report describes a breakthrough model for financing and collaboration to support farmers and accelerate the transition to sustainable food production.
Energy Transition
Green Hydrogen: Enabling Measures Roadmap for Adoption in India
This report by the World Economic Forum, written in collaboration with Bain & Co., recommends five areas that can benefit from public-private interventions in expediting the adoption ...
Forum in Focus
The Voluntary Carbon Market: Climate Finance at an Inflection Point
This briefing paper by the World Economic Forum and Bain & Company provides insight into the critical challenges delaying the voluntary carbon market from achieving scale. It also rec...
Forum in Focus
Food, Nature and Health Transitions − Repeatable Country Models
Studying successful country-level food systems transformations, this report identifies repeatable actions, investments, and collaborations that can accelerate the transition to more resil...
Forum in Focus
Circular Transformation of Industries: Unlocking New Value in a Resource-Constrained World
The Circular Transformation of Industries initiative takes a broad approach to shaping the dialogue between leaders, setting out to consolidate information from previous resource circular...
Financial and Monetary Systems
Investor Leadership: Retooling for a Resilient Future
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged all areas of government, business and individuals in its wake. Investors, in their role as capital allocators, have a particularly unique role in thei...
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- Financial and Monetary Systems
- Food, Water and Clean Air
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- Geographies in Depth
- Global Cooperation
- Industries in Depth
- Jobs and the Future of Work
- Manufacturing and Value Chains
- Nature and Biodiversity
- Stakeholder Capitalism
- Supply Chains and Transportation
- Sustainable Development
- Technological Innovation
- Trade and Investment
Artificial Intelligence
Shared infrastructure can enable sovereign AI – if we can make it trustworthy
Energy Transition
These leaders are shaping the transition to clean fuels
Artificial Intelligence
AI for sustainable development: how Bahrain is driving public-sector transformation through tech
Sustainable Development
Could AI help the Middle East and North Africa unlock $200 billion in sustainable finance by 2030?
Circular Economy
The circular transformation of industries: Unlocking economic value
Economic Growth
How will returns to growth be shared amid industrial policy, ageing and automation
Climate Action and Waste Reduction
How MENA’s biggest actors can help the region’s suppliers and SMEs to decarbonize
Energy Transition
5 ways to power up India’s green hydrogen ecosystem
Climate Action and Waste Reduction
How to cut direct emissions in MENA by 2030
Energy Transition
How MENA can play a pivotal role in the global energy transition
Forum in Focus
A practical guide for corporations to navigate the voluntary carbon markets
Forum in Focus
Partnerships can help scale and accelerate circularity. Here's how
Forum in Focus
3 ways organizations can empower older workers amid an ageing global workforce
Forum in Focus
Paving the way for the next wave of corporate participation in the voluntary carbon market
Nature and Biodiversity
How decarbonisation and energy transition can create value for MENA’s energy sector
Nature and Biodiversity
Why technology is key to decarbonising the Middle East and North Africa
Forum in Focus
5 ways companies can turn decarbonization goals into reality
Climate Action and Waste Reduction
The Middle East is gearing up to combat climate change — its private sector can lead the way
Food, Water and Clean Air
How digital technology can accelerate food sustainability
Circular Economy
How to build a circular business model that works
Circular Economy
How digital authentication could drive a resale revolution for fashion
Forum in Focus
Workplace racial equity depends on job retention as much as job hires to achieve a truly diverse workforce
Forum in Focus
3 ways traceability can fulfill the sustainability promise
Forum in Focus
Why sustainability is the new digital
Forum in Focus
4 ways industry can make supply chains more sustainable
Stakeholder Capitalism
A pragmatist's guide to zero-emission logistics
Stakeholder Capitalism
Businesses are thriving, societies are not. Time for urgent change
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The Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains is enabling more resilient, sustainable and inclusive manufacturing ecosystems and supply chains.
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The Centre for Energy and Materials is driving initiatives and coalitions to ensure the energy transition is sustainable, secure, resilient and affordable.
Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems
The Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems is designing and developing a financial system that effectively allocates capital and investment in support of planet, people, and communities.
Centre for the New Economy and Society
The Centre for the New Economy and Society is providing a platform for leaders to shape inclusive and equitable economies and societies that create opportunity for all.