Accelerating the Decarbonization of Buildings: The Net-Zero Carbon Cities Building Value Framework

The construction and operation of buildings generate 38% of global greenhouse gas emissions. While numerous technologies exist to help decarbonize the sector, there is an urgent need to a...

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate the Energy Transition

Artificial intelligence (AI) has tremendous potential to accelerate and support the global energy transition but several key barriers are preventing it from being adopted rapidly or at gl...

Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2021 edition

As countries continue their progress in transitioning to clean energy, it is critical to root the transition in economic, political and social practices to ensure progress is irreversible...

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

The transformation of the energy system over the past decade, although slower than required to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement to combat climate change, has been unprecedent...

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

The technological advances of the Fourth Industrial Revolution have fundamentally altered society in ways both seen and unseen. This digital transformation has changed how people live and...

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

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 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 fragmentati...

Risk-Mitigation Instruments in Infrastructure: Gap Assessment

The report, Risk Mitigation Instruments in Infrastructure: Gap Assessment, offers a framework for institutions to assess gaps in the provision of risk-mitigation instruments and to mobili...

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.