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Transitioning Industrial Clusters towards Net Zero: National Policy Enablement for Industrial Decarbonization
Our new white paper reviews the legislated policies driving industrial decarbonization in a selection of ten nations across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pac...
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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 te...
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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 succ...
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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 ot...
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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 ...
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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 standa...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 e...
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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 th...
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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...
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