Global challenges amplified in recent years by various crises, economic and geopolitical uncertainty, have made Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues even more pressing for po...
What might the world look like in 2025? In autumn 2020 the World Economic Forum convened expert-led Global Future Councils, time-bound think tanks, to explore that very question.
After this summer, the list of destructive impacts stemming from climate change is at once more familiar, remarkable and terrifying: Sea-level rise, ocean acidification and desertificatio...
How do you solve a problem like global hunger now made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic? Or gender and other inequality highlighted by the “Me Too” and “Black Lives Matter” movements? Or cl...
There is an ever-increasing urgency to address the barriers limiting private sector capital flowing at scale to achieve the sizeable UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing ...
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As we enter 2021, a growing number of countries are announcing net-zero targets. This is a most welcome set of New Year’s resolutions. But as with our personal commitments to get in shape...
It has been more than a decade since former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called climate change the “defining challenge of our era”. There is now widespread scientific evidence pointin...
Good infrastructure is the backbone of any successful society and economy. People need access to energy, transport, sanitation, hospitals and schools to thrive. Unfortunately, the way we ...
COVID-19 has highlighted the critical importance of infrastructure – and specifically, the resiliency of that infrastructure – to the future of societies and economies.
2020 will be remembered as the year when the world’s two biggest crises - the climate and COVID-19 - wreaked havoc. As Europe and the US debate and dispense multi-billion-dollar COVID-19 ...
Countries around the world are grappling with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the devastating socioeconomic impacts are apparent as governments struggle to protect the heal...
Despite a tremendous increase in the number of initiatives dedicated to sustainable development since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in 2015, a persistent $2.5 trillion annual financing ...
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an urgent call for action to end poverty and reduce inequality, while protecting our pla...
A new global framework for financing sustainable development was established in 2015. Every country on earth signed up to the Global Goals, having recognized the critical importance of at...
