Cyber Resilience in Oil & Gas
Event: Pathways to a Digital Resilient Oil & Gas industry on June 23rd 2021
Communities
Global Future Councils
Platforms
Communities
Global Future Councils
Platforms
Shaping the Future of Energy, Materials and Infrastructure
Watch the overview
Enabling business, governments and society to grow sustainable economies, help to halt climate change, and create a more equitable world.
Today’s global energy, materials and infrastructure sectors are characterized by significant shifts that are creating new opportunities. New trends and technologies are changing energy production, delivery and consumption. In parallel, and under the current production-consumption model, world demand for raw materials could double by 2060.
Investment, innovation and public-private collaboration are needed to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable, secure and affordable energy system while optimizing the net social and economic value delivered by materials and infrastructure. Strong partnerships and commitments throughout value chains are essential for those sectors to power the systemic changes needed to deliver on the promise of a net-zero world.
Our Platform is focused on accelerating the effective transition of the energy, materials and infrastructure that build the foundations of a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive society. We bring together leaders from the electricity, oil and gas, mining and metals, chemicals, and construction industries.
Join the Platform
Our Partners comprise the world's 1000 leading companies, developing solutions to the world's greatest challenges.
Related Communities
Read more
Partners
Show More
Related Projects
System Value
With special thanks to Henrik Andersen, CEO of Vestas and Chair of the World Economic Forum's Electricity Industry community for leading this work in collaboration with CEOs from electric...
Financing the Transition to a Net Zero Future
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 exist...
Infrastructure 4.0
Infrastructure 4.0 is an initiative of the World Economic Forum supported by the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub), a G20 organization focused on driving an ambitious agenda on sustainab...
Getting to Zero Coalition
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...
Preparing for the Future of Work in the Mining and Metals Industry
As technology develops at an accelerated pace, cognitive abilities and tasks that were once thought to be reserved for humans are increasingly being automated. There is a window of opport...
Net Zero Carbon Cities: An Integrated Approach
Innovation and Clean Energy
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 ne...
Mobilizing Investment for Clean Energy in Emerging Economies
Concrete recommendations and practical solutions to financing challenges experienced in emerging and developing markets.
Low-Carbon Emitting Technologies Initiative (LCET)
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 Pari...
Cyber Resilience in the Electricity Industry
The Challenge The Fourth Industrial Revolution brings with it a rapidly growing need for energy to sustain global digitalization and interconnectivity, including a proliferation of connec...
Unlocking Value in Manufacturing through Data Sharing
Manufacturing industries are on the verge of a data-driven revolution. In the near future, they will collaborate in hyperconnected value networks employing a large variety of data‑and‑ana...
Country Transitions and Benchmarking
Country Transition and Benchmarking is one of the challenges identified by the World Economic Forum Platform for Shaping the Future of Energy and Materials.The world’s transition to secur...
Mission Possible Partnership
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-zer...
Collaborative Infrastructure Delivery Initiative
Risk allocation and risk management are critical issues in the infrastructure delivery lifecycle. Imbalances in risk sharing in current contract structures pose a significant challenge to...
Accelerating Clean Hydrogen Initiative
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...
The Circular Cars Initiative
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...
Transitioning Industrial Clusters towards Net Zero
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...
Related Reports
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate the Energy Transition
This whitepaper explores the potential of AI for the energy transition and establishes a set of principles to help the energy industry govern and scale AI technology in a rapid, safe and ...
Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2021 edition
This report discusses the key findings from the Energy Transition Index 2021. This 10th-anniversary report is the opportunity to reflect and ask the question of whether the energy transit...
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...
Global Innovations from the Energy Sector 2010-2020
This paper, from the World Economic Forum’s International Energy Community in China, presents an opportunity to reflect on some of the energy industry’s successful innovations since 2010.
COVID-19 Risks Outlook: A Preliminary Mapping and its Implications
Two new reports from the team behind the annual Global Risks Report identify the headline risks, challenges and, encouragingly, the opportunities the world is facing as a result of the CO...
Energy Transition Index 2020: from crisis to rebound
The world’s energy transition has made slow and steady progress over the past five years, but the COVID-19 crisis risks derailing long-term progress. Will recovery and the shifting global...
Transforming Infrastructure: Frameworks for Bringing the Fourth Industrial Revolution to Infrastructure
Our new guidebook exploring major questions about how to bring the Fourth Industrial Revolution to infrastructure.
The Speed of the Energy Transition: Gradual or Rapid Change?
The energy industry is complex, and understanding the major trends changing the industry can be challenging. Investors, policy-makers, business people and other interested stakeholders re...
Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2019
Fostering Effective Energy Transition report is part of the World Economic Forum’s System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Energy. The report summarizes insights from the “Energy Trans...
Improving Infrastructure Financing in Brazil
Many governments are finding it difficult to finance the growing demand for essential infrastructure through public funding alone. With the significant increase of debt in many countries ...
Cyber Resilience in the Electricity Ecosystem: Principles and Guidance for Boards
Cyber resilience is a challenge for all organisations, but, due to its vital role as a societal backbone, it is of particular importance for the electricity ecosystem. The power grid is ...
Empowering Public-Private Collaboration in Infrastructure: National Infrastructure Acceleration (NIA) approach
The Forum’s National Infrastructure Acceleration (NIA) project, using a model developed and tested across its various national workstreams, designed a standardized governance structure – ...
Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation
Despite significant achievements in sustainable energy innovation and market scaling of technologies such as solar, wind energy storage and others, the rate of change is not fast enough. ...
Frameworks for the Future of Electricity: Leading the Transformation Through Multistakeholder Cooperation
In 2016, the World Economic Forum examined three major trends transforming the energy system: decentralization, digitalization and electrification. Building on this work, in 2017 a genera...
Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2018
The first edition of the Fostering Effective Energy Transition report, prepared with analytical support from McKinsey & Company, is part of the World Economic Forum System Initiative ...
The Global Future Council on Energy: Policy Recommendations
Global investment in clean energy amounted to more than 333 billion dollars in 2017 and households, businesses and governments are increasingly seeking new energy solutions due to the rea...
Transformation of the Global Energy System
As an integral part of the World Economic Forum System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Energy, the Global Future Council on Energy provides vision and thought leadership. Since 2016, ...
Electric Vehicles for Smarter Cities: The Future of Energy and Mobility
This report examines the major trends affecting the transformation of energy and mobility systems, with a special focus on cities. Topics addressed include: electrification, decentralizat...
Recycling our Infrastructure for Future Generations
"Recycling our Infrastructure for Future Generations" takes a closer look at an emerging approach to financing new infrastructure, which is known as “Asset Recycling”.
Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2017
· The Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2017 ranks 127 countries on their ability to deliver secure, affordable, sustainable energy
The Future of Electricity: New Technologies Transforming the Grid Edge
The electricity landscape is a prime example of the Fourth Industrial Revolution as it undergoes a transformation, becoming more complex than ever before with rapidly evolving technologie...
Game Changers in the Energy System: Emerging Themes Reshaping the Energy Landscape
In the next two decades, three game-changing themes have significant potential to impact the energy system: advanced energy acceleration, mobility revolution and energy system fragmentation.
Risk-Mitigation Instruments in Infrastructure: Gap Assessment
The report shows that current instruments are too complex, lack adequate standardization and are too costly for the private sector to use. The report identifies four key areas of action –...
Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2016
The Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2016 ranks 126 countries on their ability to deliver secure, affordable and sustainable energy.
More on
Future of Energy
View all
The innovation that could speed up the rollout of electric vehicles
Pole-mounted chargers could help meet the infrastructure gap that needs to be close to boost the sale of electric vehicles in the United States and beyond.
How long duration energy storage can enable India's net-zero transition
Long duration energy storage using renewable power offers a low-cost, flexible route to decarbonization for countries like India on the path to net zero.
This chart shows how fast renewable energy must grow to reach the world’s net-zero targets
The latest obstacle in the clean energy transition? Soaring metal prices
4 ways airlines are planning to become carbon neutral
