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Unlocking renewable energy future in emerging markets
The World Economic Forum is working with its partners to explore solutions to unlock capital for renewable energy investments in developing economies.
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Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining experience and specialized skills spanning more than 40 industries, it offers strategy and consulting, technology and operations services and Accenture Song – all powered by its network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. Its 721,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. Accenture embraces the power of change to create value and shared success for its clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.
Impact
Forum Institutional
Closing gender gaps in the private sector benefits over 850,000 women
Gender Parity Accelerators have significantly improved a legislative and societal drive for women’s workforce participation and reduced the gender gap.
Nature and Biodiversity
Global companies reduce air pollutants in supply chains
The Alliance for Clean Air – an influential group of companies – has committed to measuring air pollutants from their operations and value chains.
Urban Transformation
Our Alliance is creating smart city governance
Led by the Forum, the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance is the largest global initiative of its kind, promoting smart city governance
Business
How a new generation of entrepreneurs is tackling the world’s biggest challenges head on
Our open digital platform connects innovators with investors, topical experts, global organizations and government bodies who have the ability to scale their solutions.
Urban Transformation
A net zero carbon future for cities
The World Economic Forum is convening stakeholders with a role to play for global cities to have a chance of reaching the net zero carbon goal for by 2030.
Publications
Urban Transformation
Transforming Urban Logistics: Sustainable and Efficient Last-Mile Delivery in Cities
This comprehensive white paper, produced in collaboration with Accenture, addresses the critical challenges and opportunities presented to both businesses and consumers by the increased d...
Energy Transition
Net-Zero Industry Tracker 2024
The third edition of the Net-Zero Industry Tracker provides a detailed analysis of the progress hard-to-abate industrial and transport sectors are making worldwide in their efforts to ach...
Climate Action
Business on the Edge: Building Industry Resilience to Climate Hazards
The business and societal case for investing in resilience and adaptation is increasingly clear. Earth systems—such as ice sheets, ocean currents, and permafrost—are interconnected proces...
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Shared Commitments in a Blended Reality: Advancing Governance in the Future Internet
Regardless of the name given to the next major evolution of the internet, the future will see users deeply engaged with a network of converging and integrated frontier technologies. Gover...
Energy Transition
Clean Power for Industry in China: Policy Enablers for the Industrial Sector
The industrial sector in China accounts for more than half of global production of many key bulk materials such as steel, aluminium and cement, and nearly half of all chemicals and paper....
Energy Transition
A Collaborative Framework for Accelerating Advanced Nuclear and Small Modular Reactor Deployment
At COP28, 22 countries committed to triple global nuclear power capacity by 2050 – since then, they have been joined by 14 major banks and additional countries. To meet net-zero commitmen...
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Governance in the Age of Generative AI: A 360° Approach for Resilient Policy and Regulation
In a time of rapid innovation and global uncertainty, generative artificial intelligence (AI) emerges as a transformative force, reshaping industries, economies, and societies worldwide. ...
Sustainable Development
Quantum for Society: Meeting the Ambition of the SDGs
This new insight report aims to raise awareness of quantum technologies’ power to tackle humanity’s most pressing challenges, from large-scale decarbonization to the design of new solar c...
Energy Transition
Accelerating the Clean Hydrogen Economy in Latin America
This report examines how Latin America can leverage its abundant solar, wind and hydroelectric resources to become a key player in the global clean hydrogen export market, while helping t...
The Future of Financial Advice
As the world grapples with rapid technological advancements, demographic shifts and evolving consumer expectations, the landscape of financial advice is undergoing a profound transformati...
Energy Transition
Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2024
The energy transition is progressing but has lost momentum in the face of increasing global uncertainty, according to the World Economic Forum's Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2024...
Urban Transformation
Reducing Embodied Carbon in Cities: Nine Solutions for Greener Buildings and Communities
As cities grow in population and importance, urban construction will continue to gather pace. It is estimated that global floor area is expected to double by 2060, the equivalent of addin...
Financial and Monetary Systems
Modernizing Financial Markets with Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (wCBDC)
Over 98% of the global economy’s central banks are researching, piloting or deploying central bank digital currency (CBDC). There is an opportunity to harness this innovation in central b...
Metaverse Identity: Defining the Self in a Blended Reality
The metaverse, poised to redefine the internet, intertwines the digital and physical, emphasizing the pivotal role of “identity” in shaping immersive, human-centric experiences.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Navigating the Industrial Metaverse: A Blueprint for Future Innovations
At the brink of a new phase of the industrial revolution, the metaverse stands as a catalyst for change, offering novel ways to merge digital and physical realms, enhance operational effi...
Emerging Technologies
Digital Trust: Supporting Individual Agency
This paper discusses the interaction between digital technologies and human users, describing how protecting individual choice and agency is essential to any trustworthy system. To effect...
Emerging Technologies
AI Governance Alliance: Briefing Paper Series
In an era marked by rapid technological transformation, this briefing paper series stands as a pivotal point of reference, guiding responsible transformation with artificial intelligence ...
Geographies in Depth
Delivering on the European Green Deal: A Private-Sector Perspective
This report examines the actions undertaken by the World Economic Forum’s CEO Action Group for the European Green Deal, using examples and experiences in various areas and placing Group-s...
Cybersecurity
Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024
The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024, produced in collaboration with Accenture, examines the cybersecurity trends that will affect economies and societies in the y...
Energy Transition
Transitioning Industrial Clusters Annual Report
This report highlights the experiences and perspectives of 20 industrial clusters in the World Economic Forum's Transitioning Industrial Clusters initiative. Despite unique geographical, ...
Better Community Engagement for a Just Energy Transition: A C-Suite Guide
This C-suite guide introduces a “people-positive” approach to clean power development and brings the conversation on community engagement closer to key decision-makers.
Privacy and Safety in the Metaverse
The metaverse is expected to reach a value of $1 trillion in the next three years, driven by rapid uptake and technologies like generative AI.
Social Implications of the Metaverse
The metaverse is projected to amass a staggering value of $1 trillion over the next three years, indicating rapid adoption and acceleration through technologies such as generative AI.
Geographies in Depth
Green Hydrogen in China: A Roadmap for Progress
Hydrogen is a promising solution for decarbonizing hard-to-electrify sectors, and China has incorporated it in its latest national development strategy. Yet, although China is the world’s...
Forum Institutional
Transitioning Industrial Clusters towards Net Zero
This insight report highlights the experiences and perspectives of 11 industrial clusters that are a part of the Transitioning Industrial Clusters towards Net Zero initiative. These clust...
Forum Institutional
Interoperability in the Metaverse
The next era of the internet is coming. The metaverse is an immersive, interoperable and synchronous digital world that will change how we interact, work and play.
Forum Institutional
Demystifying the Consumer Metaverse
The metaverse is coming: an immersive, interoperable and synchronous digital world that will change how we interact, work and play.
Forum Institutional
Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023
The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023, in collaboration with Accenture, examines the cybersecurity trends that will impact our economies and societies in the year t...
Energy Transition
Securing the Energy Transition
We are in the grip of an unprecedented global energy crisis, but short-term fixes will lead to a bleak future – to achieve energy security and sustainability, the only solution is to acce...
Industries in Depth
How to Create the Sustainable Travel Products Customers Want
As the travel and tourism (T&T) industry recovers from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the urgency of the need to combat climate change and other sustainability challenges has in...
Cybersecurity
Earning Digital Trust: Decision-Making for Trustworthy Technologies
Digital trust is the expectation by individuals that digital technologies and services – and the organizations providing them – will protect all stakeholders’ interests and uphold societa...
Financial and Monetary Systems
The Future of Capital Markets: Democratization of Retail Investing
The global financial system is undergoing several simultaneous transformations. Digitalization and democratizations are reshaping how capital markets operate. Both investors and corporate...
Videos
Podcasts
Energy Transition
Energy transition - have global crises stalled progress on climate goals?
Has the war in Ukraine and the resulting pressure on energy prices stalled the move away from fossil fuels? The World Economic Forum's 'Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2022' report ...
Paul Daugherty: Radically Human
Paul Daugherty is the Chief Technology Officer at Accenture and co-author of Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future. In this episode, he discu...
Energy Transition
What does the future look like for energy, and for our jobs?
Ahead of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, we look at two issues that will be at the heart of many discussions: energy and jobs. We discuss a new report, Securing the...
Forum Institutional
Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse
On Day 3 at Davos 2023, we enter the metaverse to experience the Forum’s Global Collaboration Village, hear why inflation may have peaked, but prices haven’t, and speak to astronaut Matth...
Apps, bots and 'finfluencers': how to navigate the changing world of investing
If you’re lucky enough to have some spare cash to invest, how do you decide where to put it? In the past few years the answer to that question may have changed. The rise of robo-advisers ...
Emerging Technologies
Davos 2024: Technology in a Turbulent World
As technology becomes increasingly intertwined in our daily lives and important for driving development and prosperity, questions of safety, human interaction and trust become critical to...
Davos 2024: Generative AI: Steam Engine of the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
The development of generative AI has catapulted AI technology to one of the fastest and most impactful innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. From creation to production and dis...
Education and Skills
Special Meeting 2024: Is Education Ready for AI?
With the education industry at a pivotal point of transformation driven by AI and innovative teaching methodologies, new education hotspots are emerging to address the growing and diversi...
Accenture contributors
Prince Arora
Post and Parcel Industry Research Lead
Muqsit Ashraf
Group Chief Executive - Accenture StrategyLuna Atamian Hahn-Petersen
Senior manager sustainability strategy
Sabrina Battilana Lopez
Consultant
Lisa Burns
ConsultantAmy Callahan
Managing DirectorEmmeline Cardozo
Strategy ManagerGaston Carrion
Managing DirectorLaura Converso
Thought Leadership Principal Director
Jacky Fox
Senior Managing Director; Global Strategy Practice Lead, Accenture Security, Europe and Ireland
Michael Fröbel
Cities, Transport and Infrastructure Industry, Lead (EMEA)
Jonathan Gilmour
Utilities Energy Transition Consultant
Raj Gopalakrishnan
Strategy Senior ManagerMorrison Harry
Managing Director, Accenture Strategy
Nora Heger
Principal Director for Coaching and Leadership DevelopmentKristen Hines
Managing DirectorShinji Igarashi
Senior Managing Director and Sales Lead, Japan
Stephanie Jamison
Global Resources Industry Practices Chair; Sustainability Services Lead
Ogan Kose
Managing Director, Strategy, Trading and Risk ManagementOusmène Mandeng
Senior Advisor Blockchain and Multiparty Systems
Constanza Movsichoff
Senior Manager, Public ServicesCaroline Narich
Energy Transition Services North America LeadJesko Neuenburg
Managing Director, Global Travel & Aviation Sustainability Lead
Cameron Nili
Project Fellow, Financial Market Infrastructure Modernization & Wholesale CBDC
Karen O’Regan
Managing Director; Head, Strategy
Tom Patterson
Managing Director, Emerging Technology SecurityShelia Peng
Strategy & Consulting AnalystMichał Piotrowski
Senior Manager | EnergyMary Puleo
Manager, North America Chemicals and Natural ResourcesDavid Rabley
Managing Director, Global Energy Transition Lead
Michael Rohrs
Security Consulting Senior ManagerJamie Scanlon
Security SpecialistToby Siddall
Managing Director, Sustainability Strategy LeadPauline Steinbach
Strategy Consultant, EMEA Energy and Utilities Group
Julie Sweet
Chair and Chief Executive OfficerIsabel Thomas
Human Sciences Studio, Accenture Research
Kathryn White
Principal Director, Responsible Emerging Technology and InnovationRelated Centres
Centre for Health and Healthcare
The Centre for Health and Healthcare is identifying and scaling up solutions for more resilient, efficient, and equitable healthcare systems.
Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution is advancing the application of human-centred and society-serving technologies.
Centre for Urban Transformation
The Centre for Urban Transformation is advancing public-private collaboration in cities, enabling more resilient and future-ready communities and local economies.