
Grow Asia
Grow Asia is a multi-stakeholder partnership platform that enables collaboration and catalyzes action in support of national and regional agriculture development. Established by the World...
Accelerating actions on climate change and environmental sustainability, food systems, the circular economy and value chains, and the future of international development.
Global ecological systems are straining under the burden of nearly 8 billion people consuming within the planet’s limited boundaries. The shared resources that sustain humanity are under severe strain, with the climate, oceans and food systems facing unprecedented crises. These crises are exacerbated by a global economy that is extremely inequitable and an international governance system that is under acute stress. Amid this, the future of the international development system itself is under scrutiny, as it becomes clear that government alone cannot deliver on the global UN Sustainable Development Goals or the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Our Platform enables leaders from the public and private sectors and civil society worldwide to form exceptional, cross-cutting communities of action that collaborate at speed and scale, harness the opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and trigger systems change.
Partnering with over 150 of the world’s leading companies and 50 international and civil society organizations, our Platform focuses on four key initiatives: the circular economy and global value chains, climate change, environment and natural resource security, food systems and international development.
Grow Asia is a multi-stakeholder partnership platform that enables collaboration and catalyzes action in support of national and regional agriculture development. Established by the World...
Protecting forests is critical to averting the most dangerous climate change and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. Avoiding further deforestatio...
Systemic Efficiency aims to enable a decarbonized, highly electrified and resilient city ecosystem though ultra-efficient buildings and smart energy infrastructure.
Half of the world's plastic production is for single-use items. And more than 90% of plastic is never recycled, instead polluting our planet’s landscapes and oceans. While efforts to impr...
2030Vision - partnering together to scale technologies for the global goals The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sets out a 17 Global Goals (SDGs) to facilitate equal, sustainable ...
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 2030 Water Resources Group is a unique public-private-civil society collaboration. It facilitates open, trust-based dialogue processes to drive action on water resources reform in wat...
In a letter sent to company leaders ahead of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2020, Klaus Schwab, the Forum's Founder and Executive Chairman, Brian Moynihan, the Chair of the Int...
The Loop Initiative aims to establish a new model of consumption that ends society’s dependence on disposability and eliminates the idea of waste. By doing so, it supports responsible con...
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 buildin...
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 ...
Goal: The Food Innovation Hubs are aimed at leveraging technology and broader innovations to strengthen local innovation ecosystems accelerate transformation for the Food Systems. Overvie...
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...
Water is the ultimate systems challenge. It is a unique resource that underpins all drivers of growth – be it agricultural production, energy generation, industry or manufacturing. It als...
The Food Action Alliance (FAA) is a coalition of organisations and initiatives, who through collective action, significantly strengthen the impact of agricultural value chains to produce ...
Historic productivity gains in the food sector have come at alarming environmental and health costs. To meet the aspiration of establishing inclusive, efficient, sustainable, nutritious a...
Transformation Leaders NetworkThe Transformation Leaders Network (TLN) previously engaged 150 senior practitioners and experts to pursue practical efforts for sustainable and inclusive ag...
Goal: To deliver inclusive, sustainable, efficient and nutritious & healthy food systems.Food is integral to every single Sustainable Development Goal and building food systems we nee...
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 pa...
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...
The Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) Alliance aims to scale up affordable natural climate mitigation solutions for achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change. These inclu...
The Circular Economy ChallengeBusiness, governments and citizens around the world increasingly recognize the challenges caused by our “take-make-dispose” approach to production and consum...
How can the world nourish 9.8 billion people by 2050 through sustainable practices? Food systems do not currently provide nutritious food in an environmentally sustainable way to the worl...
The Grow Africa Partnership was founded jointly by the African Union (AU), The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the World Economic Forum in 2011 and works to increase ...
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 ...
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 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 s...
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OverviewThe Lighthouse Projects on Social Justice and Sustainability initiative surfaces leadership examples of how business, social enterprise and civil society leaders are integrating s...
The platform will leverage the convening power and expertise of the World Economic Forum, PACE, the WBCSD and RBA. The platform will bring together leaders from industry, government, inte...
*Registration for our side session at the OECD 2021 Forum on Responsible Minerals Supply Chains is now open.A Value Chain Dialogue on Deep-Sea MineralsWhat questions are being asked about...
This report examines natural climate solutions (NCS), which use nature’s own capacity to absorb and store greenhouse gases to combat climate change.
This white paper – published by the Global Battery Alliance with support from the World Economic Forum, White & Case, and SYSTEMIQ – presents a vision to transform the global value ch...
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 report is the last of three framework reports developed by the Circular Cars Initiative to help the sector and its regulators better understand automotive’s new sustainable future.
The report is the second of three framework reports developed by the Circular Cars Initiative to help the sector and its regulators better understand automotive’s new sustainable future.
The circular transition requires change within and throughout our economic systems. A particular subset of innovators – trailblazers – go the extra mile to shape the market for circular s...
While cars may never be fully carbon neutral, the automotive industry can significantly reduce its carbon footprint by adopting a high degree of circularity to deliver economic, societal ...
This White Paper addresses the safe and environmentally responsible management of LAB recycling. It provides a series of recommendations for policy-makers, describes best practices for th...
Developed through the World Economic Forum’s Clean Skies for Tomorrow coalition, this policy report is accessible on the Forum’s digital library and is signed by Airbus Group, Deutsche Lu...
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...
Climate change is visibly disrupting business. It is driving unprecedented physical impacts, such as rising sea levels and increased frequency of extreme weather events. At the same time,...
The stress on the earth’s natural systems caused by human activity has considerably worsened in the 25 years since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit in Brazil.
This report provides a plan for the global plastics industry to take action across all types of plastic packaging, to design better packaging and increase recycling rates.
From bans to taxes, policy and legal approaches are available to help curb plastic pollution - but, there's no silver bullet warns the World Resources Insititute.
A UK start-up is converting an industrial greenhouse gas into protein that can be fed to livestock, reducing the need for resource-sapping traditional animal feeds.