Trade and Values: Navigating the Intersection of Policy and Principles

Trade policies have evolved beyond economic efficiency, increasingly reflecting non-trade objectives (NTOs) like climate action, human rights and sustainability. This trend sees countries...

Strengthening the Gender Dimension in the Trade Policy Review Mechanism

Trade and domestic policy interventions can help address challenges women and their businesses face, while gender-disaggregated data assists in identifying issues and evaluating the impac...

Future Focus 2025: Pathways for Progress from the Network of Global Future Councils 2020–2022

Future Focus 2025: Pathways for Progress from the Network of Global Future Councils 2020-2022 offers a positive and inspiring agenda around which a sustainable and inclusive recovery can ...

A Blueprint for Equity and Inclusion in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential to benefit society, but the technology’s full potential can only be realized if it is representative of the diversity of populations it im...

Immersive Media Technologies: The Acceleration of Augmented and Virtual Reality in the Wake of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted whole economies. Immersive media businesses, which focus on technologies that create or imitate the physical world through digital simulation, have been no...

Engaging Affected Stakeholders: Guidance for Board Members on Human Rights

Companies face increasing scrutiny of their social and environmental performance from consumers, communities, workers, governments and investors. Business leaders are being urged to consi...

Conflict, Sanctions and the Future of World Trade

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been met with unprecedented trade and other economic sanctions. Some members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have revoked Russia’s most-favoured-...

Scaling Investments in Nature: The Next Critical Frontier for Private Sector Leadership

More than half of the world’s GDP – US$44 trillion – is at immediate risk due to nature loss. Fortunately, investing in nature allows us to not only mitigate future environmental catastro...

Global Risks Report 2022

The Rise and Role of the Chief Integrity Officer: Leadership Imperatives in an ESG-Driven World

The growing shift in corporate governance requires organizations to break down silos and create more deliberate alignment and collaboration across critical functions, including ESG/sustai...

Sustainable Road Transport and Pricing

This White Paper, from the Global Future Council on Urban Mobility Transitions, evaluates road pricing mechanisms and calls for an acceleration towards equitable, clean and financially re...

Net-Zero to Net-Negative: A Guide for Leaders on Carbon Removal

To achieve the goal of a safe climate, we will need to both dramatically reduce emissions to achieve absolute zero greenhouse gases and simultaneously start reducing the stock of pollutan...

Revisiting and Realizing the Promises of Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology is a frontier field that employs science and engineering approaches to design biologically based parts, novel devices and systems as well as redesign existing, natural, ...

Getting to Net Zero: Increasing Clean Electrification by Empowering Demand

Published under the auspices of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Clean Electrification, this Insight Report invites policy-makers, regulators and investors to place great...

Global Future Council on Responsive Financial Systems: Three ways to accelerate a digital-led recovery

The financial system is playing a critical role in facilitating the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. As the recovery is largely digital-led, members of the Forum’s Global Future Counc...

Space for Net Zero

Climate change is one of the greatest global challenges. The accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, particularly from anthropogenic emissions, is changing Earth’s climate at ...

Pathways to Digital Justice

The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Data Policy liaised with the Global Future Council on Media, Entertainment and Sport and the Global Future Council on AI for Humanity t...

A Holistic Guide to Approaching AI Fairness Education in Organizations

As companies around the world increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) in their decision-making processes, there is an ever greater risk of creating or reinforcing unfair bias. This ...

Building Back Broader: Policy Pathways for an Economic Transformation

The highly asymmetric impact of the pandemic has reinforced historical inequalities within and between countries and is now giving rise to a highly divergent recovery. Technological chang...

Global Governance Toolkit for Digital Mental Health

In collaboration with Deloitte

Net-Zero Challenge: The supply chain opportunity

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 Global Risks Report 2021

In partnership with Marsh McLennan, SK Group and Zurich Insurance Group

Net Zero Carbon Cities: An Integrated Approach

Cities cover 3% of the earth’s land surface yet they create more than 70% of all carbon emissions. To keep global temperature increases to 1.5°C or below, cities have to achieve net-zero....

Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2020

The Future of Jobs Report 2020

Dashboard for a New Economy Towards a New Compass for the Post-COVID Recovery

The simultaneous disruption caused by the COVID-19 crisis in nearly every country around the world has forced societies into a moment of pause and reflection on what is truly of value. Re...

Six ways space technologies benefit life on Earth

The Post-COVID-19 Financial System

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a rapid transformation of the global financial system: Businesses, small and large, needed almost-instant liquidity, individuals embraced digital and c...

Digital Transformation: Powering the Great Reset

COVID-19 is a watershed moment for the digital transformation of business. The rules for success have changed and are ever more reliant on harnessing the power of digital models to create...

New Nature Economy Report II: The Future of Nature and Business

The Future of Nature and Business, the second of three reports in the World Economic Forum’s New Nature Economy series, provides the practical insights needed to take leadership in shifti...

New Nature Economy Report Series

A series of reports showing the relevance of nature loss to boardroom discussions on risks and opportunities. These insights provide pathways for business to be part of the transition to ...

Global Future Council on Quantum Computing: Frequently Asked Questions

A Community Paper by the Global Future Council on Quantum Computing.

Global Future Council on New Network Technologies - 5G: Society’s Essential Innovation Technology

A Community Paper by Global Future Council on New Network Technologies

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 4.0: A toolkit for leaders to accelerate social progress in the future of work

The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Toolkit explores the practical opportunities and risks that rapidly emerging technologies represent for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The to...

Winning the Race for Survival: How New Manufacturing Technologies are Driving Business-Model Innovation

How Can Trade Rules Support Environmental Action?

Guidelines for City Mobility: Steering towards collaboration

Shaping a Multiconceptual World

Global Social Mobility Index 2020: why economies benefit from fixing inequality

Aumento del riesgo de la naturaleza: because of the crisis that affects naturaleza es important para las empresas y la economía

Look out: Nature Risks on the Rise

Unlocking Technology for the Global Goals

Schools of the Future: Defining New Models of Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution