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The 2026 Technology Convergence: A New Logic for Competitive report
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While businesses are feeling the adverse impacts of nature loss, they are also beginning to recognise the opportunities a nature-positive economy can offer. From precision agriculture to battery recycling to bio-based materials, new ways of doing business are delivering both long-term resilience and short-term gains. Financial institutions are also realising the green economy can compete on returns. This report highlights 50+ investible opportunities already generating cost-savings or revenues for businesses across the real economy.
Corporate and finance leaders are transforming their operations because it makes good business sense to do so. In 2024, the green economy accounted for ~$8 trillion in listed equity market value and has outperformed global equities by ~59% since 2008. Yet the private sector still invests ~$5 trillion annually in activities that harm nature, despite research showing more than half global GDP depends on the services nature provides.
The 50+ investible opportunities presented in this report can help swing the pendulum. Spanning 13 critical sectors selected for their impacts and dependencies on nature, they deliver economic returns as well as climate mitigation, job creation and resilience-building. As they scale up, these opportunities have the potential to move from isolated interventions to industry-shaping transitions.
New analysis in this report builds on several years of collaboration between the World Economic Forum and Oliver Wyman on the Nature Positive Transitions series. The main report is accompanied by two additional documents:
– CEO Primer: Overview of high-level findings and the 50+ investible opportunities, tailored for senior executives across corporate sectors and financial institutions.
– Supplementary Appendix: Detailed, sector-by-sector analysis of each opportunity, including financial instruments, impacts on nature and business cases.
Corporate and finance leaders are transforming their operations because it makes good business sense to do so. In 2024, the green economy accounted for ~$8 trillion in listed equity market value and has outperformed global equities by ~59% since 2008. Yet the private sector still invests ~$5 trillion annually in activities that harm nature, despite research showing more than half global GDP depends on the services nature provides.
The 50+ investible opportunities presented in this report can help swing the pendulum. Spanning 13 critical sectors selected for their impacts and dependencies on nature, they deliver economic returns as well as climate mitigation, job creation and resilience-building. As they scale up, these opportunities have the potential to move from isolated interventions to industry-shaping transitions.
New analysis in this report builds on several years of collaboration between the World Economic Forum and Oliver Wyman on the Nature Positive Transitions series. The main report is accompanied by two additional documents:
– CEO Primer: Overview of high-level findings and the 50+ investible opportunities, tailored for senior executives across corporate sectors and financial institutions.
– Supplementary Appendix: Detailed, sector-by-sector analysis of each opportunity, including financial instruments, impacts on nature and business cases.
Organizational Transformation in the Age of AI: How Organizations Maximize AI's Potential examines how leading organizations are embedding AI across customer experience, operations, R&D, strategic planning and talent.
The Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026, written in collaboration with Accenture, examines the cybersecurity trends that will affect economies and societies in the year to come. It explores how accelerating AI adoption, geopolitical fragmentation and widening cyber inequity are reshaping the global risk landscape. As attacks grow faster, more complex and more unevenly distributed, organizations and governments face rising pressure to adapt amid persistent sovereignty challenges and widening capability gaps. Drawing on leaders’ perspectives, it provides actionable insights to inform strategy, investment and policy.
The Global Risks Report 2026 analyses global risks through three timeframes to support decision-makers in balancing current crises and longer-term priorities.
The Chief Economists' Outlook: January 2026 examines near-term economic prospects alongside deeper structural shifts shaping growth, policy and investment.
The Global Cooperation Barometer 2026 – Third Edition highlights where cooperation is persisting, where it is weakening and how it is being reconfigured in response to shifting economic, political and technological realities.
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The annual Global Risks Report explores some of the most severe risks we may face in the coming years. Underpinned by the Forum’s Global Risks Perception Survey, the report brings together leading insights from over 1,200 experts across the world.
The Global Cybersecurity Outlook reports examine the cybersecurity trends that will impact our economies and societies in the year to come.
The annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report highlights the technologies set to positively impact society within the next three to five years. The report provides a qualitative assessment of each technology's potential impact on people and the planet.
The annual Future of Jobs Report explores how jobs and skills will evolve. The report is based on unique survey data that details the expectations of a cross-section of the world’s largest employers related to how socio-economic and technology trends will shape the workplace of the future.
The Chief Economists Outlook summarizes the emerging contours of the current economic environment. The quarterly report incorporates the latest policy research and the results of a Forum survey with leading chief economists from both the public and private sectors.
The annual Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks the state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.
The Annual Report outlines the concrete progress the World Economic Forum made over the year in a variety of initiatives and demonstrates how the organization continues to be a bridge-builder in the increasingly complex world.
The annual Energy Transition Index benchmarks over 100 countries on their current energy system performance as well as provides a forward-looking measure of energy security and transition readiness.
The Global Cooperation Barometer 2025 offers a comprehensive assessment of global collaboration.
The Technology Convergence Series explores breakthroughs emerging from the intersection of multiple advanced domains such as AI, robotics, engineering biology, spatial intelligence, advanced materials, next-generation energy, omni computing and quantum. Across the series, the reports examine how organizations can translate technical possibility into operational impact, new value chains and durable competitive advantage.
The World Economic Forum's Travel & Tourism Development Index provides a strategic benchmarking tool for business, governments, international organizations and others to develop the Travel & Tourism sector.
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