Climate Action Platform

Projects

The challengeShipping is central to the movement of goods around the world and a driver for global trade. Although it is considered one of the lowest emitting means of transportation, the industry accounts for 2-3% of...

To limit global warming to 1.5°C, we need to be ready by 2050 to remove and store 10-20bn tonnes/year of CO2 from the air.We start today — by making sense of the removals landscape and exploring opportunities to set u...

Concrete recommendations and practical solutions to financing challenges experienced in emerging and developing markets.

The unprecedented changes the world has recently faced have awaken a stronger call for business, governments and society to be resilient and better prepared for future disruptions. Climate change is our biggest challe...

Countries representing approximately 70% of the global economy have committed to net-zero emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. To deliver on these ambitious commitments, ecosystems such as industrial clusters, ...

Conserving, restoring and growing 1 trillion trees by 2030 is achievable Trees and forests are a critical part of the solution to the climate crisis and biodiversity collapse. That’s why we aim to mobilize, connect, a...

The Clean Skies for Tomorrow Coalition provides a crucial global mechanism for top executives and public leaders, across and beyond the aviation value chain, to align on a transition to sustainable aviation fuels as p...

The ChallengeDemand for road freight is expected to triple by 2050, while the sector must almost entirely decarbonize in the same timeframe, to meet the Paris Climate Agreement. Given the fragmented market, asset life...

Public and private actors have shown an increased interest in green trade topics. The urgency of environmental challenges and the opportunity for transition presented by COVID-19 recovery efforts have spurred on these...

The Circular Cars Initiative (CCI) is a private/public sector collaboration focused on leveraging new technologies and business models to align the automotive industry with a 1.5C climate scenario. Through an integrat...

In its entirety, the initiative aims to bring the Mobility and Financial Services communities of the World Economic Forum together to explore cross-industry challenges and opportunities in the auto finance space as th...

Air pollution and climate change are two of the greatest challenges of our time but they are also an opportunity to do better. 9 out of 10 people breathe air that is harmful to their health. From the US to Germany and...

The Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders a global community of Chief Executive Officers who continue to set the bar higher and catalyse action across all sectors and engage policymakers to help deliver the transition to a ...

The Food Action Alliance is pleased to launch a report “Food Action Alliance: A leadership agenda for multi-stakeholder collaboration to transform food systems”, produced in collaboration with Bain & Company and t...

The Mission Possible Partnership is a coalition of public and private partners working on the industry transition to set heavy industry and mobility sectors on the pathway towards net-zero emissions by mid-century.It ...

The urgent need to address the climate emergency requires governments and business to accelerate the transition to a new economic model that is consistent with the 2018 recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel o...

8 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into the ocean each year. By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean—if we do not take urgent, collective action. Co-founded by partners across the public and pri...

In order to avert a catastrophic climate disaster, global clean energy investments of approximately $4-5 trillion are required annually by 2030 – a more than threefold increase from existing investment levels. Breakth...

Hydrogen is increasingly identified as a critical success factor for the transition to a net-zero world by 2050. However, clean hydrogen is currently not scaling fast enough to deliver on that promise. Because of the ...

Innovation and Clean Energy is one of the challenges identified by the World Economic Forum Platform for Shaping the Future of Energy and Materials.The pace of innovation in energy has never been faster. Significant c...

Due to global population growth and expansion of the middle class, it is expected that demand for chemicals and materials will quadruple by 2050. At the same time, achievement of the Paris agreement goals requires the...

The Nature Action Agenda (NAA) is a multi-sector movement catalyzing economic action to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 and enable humans to live in harmony with nature.

The provision of universally accessible and affordable, healthy and sustainable protein is critical to human nutritional needs and meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, as well as keeping within the Paris Cl...

The challengeGlobal warming is negatively affecting communities, consumers’ health, and our natural ecosystems. Over two-thirds of consumers are concerned about climate change but they generally continue to be unsure ...

In a nutshellThe Global New Mobility Coalition (GNMC), curated by the World Economic Forum, is an active and diverse community of over 200 globally renowned experts, NGOs and companies for accelerating the shift to Sh...

Science-based targets can give direction and create incentives for key actors across the world to operate within planetary boundaries. Over the past three years, momentum has been building for companies to establish t...

Food Innovation HubsNearly 2 billion people worldwide lack access to sufficient, nutritious and safe food, and 690 million people suffer from chronic hunger or lack of proper nutrition. The current food system needs t...

Transformation Leaders NetworkThe Transformation Leaders Network (TLN) previously engaged 150 senior practitioners and experts to pursue practical efforts for sustainable and inclusive agriculture. This community conn...

In 2018, the World Economic Forum created the Ocean Action Agenda as a project that would support a range of initiatives to ensure the long-term sustainable use of the ocean. The Ocean Action Agenda, in partnership wi...

Protecting forests is critical to averting the most dangerous climate change and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. Avoiding further deforestation could reduce carbon dioxide ...