Thought Leadership
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Towards Nature Positive: Corporate and Financial Institution Practices in China
The text underscores the economic rationale for preserving nature, citing its significant role in global GDP. It highlights the growing corporate awareness of biodiversity, especially in China, post the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. However, many companies are still in early stages of addressing nature-related issues. The report focuses on early adopters in China disclosing biodiversity risks and commitments, noting challenges in quantifying impacts.
The Voluntary Carbon Market: Climate Finance at an Inflection Point
The text advocates for natural climate solutions, stating they can provide one-third of the needed mitigation by 2030. Conserving natural carbon sinks has benefits beyond emissions reduction, including livelihood support for millions and biodiversity conservation. For companies, it suggests direct decarbonization, investing in ecosystem protection, and purchasing high-quality carbon credits. The briefing paper outlines challenges hindering market scale and offers initial recommendations for corporate leaders, serving as a basis for further action in 2023.
Surfacing Supply of Near-Zero Emission Fuels and Materials in India
Nearly 20% of India’s emissions come from the steel, cement and aviation industries. Decarbonizing these sectors is crucial to meet the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) commitment to reduce GDP emissions intensity by 45% by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2070 at the latest. In July 2023, the First Movers Coalition (FMC) convened an in-country workshop to encourage domestic suppliers of steel, cement and aviation fuel to accelerate their decarbonization efforts by demonstrating demand from FMC members for low- and zero-carbon products.
Scaling Agritech at the Last Mile: Converging Efforts for Farmers’ Prosperity
The Indian agricultural sector, dominated by smallholder farmers, is grappling with challenges from climate change, natural disasters, and soil degradation, compounded by the economic impact of COVID-19. To address this, India sees an opportunity in integrating artificial intelligence and emerging technologies into agriculture. The report outlines the context, theory of change, approach, and outcomes of the first phase, providing recommendations for scaling Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies in agriculture through public-private partnerships.
The Global Risks Report 2024 : 19th Edition
The report analyses global risks through three time frames to support decision-makers in balancing current crises and longer-term priorities. Chapter 1 explores the most severe current risks and those ranked highest by survey respondents, over a two-year period, analysing in depth the three risks that have rapidly accelerated into the top 10 rankings over the two-year horizon. Chapter 2 focuses on the top risks emerging over the next decade against a backdrop of geostrategic, climate, technological and demographic shifts, diving deeper into four specific risk outlooks.
Scaling Smart Solutions with AI in Health: Unlocking Impact on High-Potential Use Cases
Over the past decade, healthcare and technology industry leaders, public officials and researchers have placed high hopes on harnessing advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to transform healthcare. What’s been lacking, however, is a way for multilateral stakeholder coalitions to unite around a common vision for the most attainable solutions that can build trust and confidence in providers, patients, policy-makers and business leaders. This report aims to create a shared taxonomy to express the breadth of healthcare applications for which AI is being used.
Closing the Climate Action Gap: Accelerating Decarbonization and the Energy Transition in MENA
MENA is acutely prone to climate shocks – water scarcity, droughts, elevated pollution levels and chronic waste – and the knock-on effects of climate change have the potential to compound deeper systemic issues that threaten human livelihoods and environmental liveability. While many of the largest economies in the region depend on hydrocarbon production for growth, others suffer from widespread unemployment, fragile social fabrics and humanitarian crises as an effect of war.
Chief Economists Outlook
The September 2023 Chief Economists Outlook launches amid slowing global momentum and continuing economic uncertainty. Despite the fact that recession concerns appear to have eased, the outlook remains anaemic: six out of ten chief economists expect the global economy to weaken in the coming year. Political factors are expected to be an important influence on global economic developments in the year ahead, with large majorities of respondents expecting geopolitics (90%) and domestic politics (79%) to be a source of volatility.
Fuelling the Future of Shipping: Key Barriers to Scaling Zero-Emission Fuel Supply
To align with the Paris Agreement and aim for netzero emissions by 2050, the shipping sector must reduce its emissions by around 15% by 2030 vs. 2022 levels. Among the available decarbonization options, zero emission fuels such as methanol and ammonia are an important focus area. The demand for such fuels is on the rise, as indirectly indicated by 180+ dual-fuel ships on order, but on the supply side, more than 95% of projects centred on producing these fuels have not yet passed the final investment decision (FID) phase. Discussions held for this report with maritime shipping decarbonization-focused decision-makers from more than 20 private, public and non-governmental organizations identified 10 barriers limiting zero emission shipping fuel projects from getting past FID.
Guidebook on Facilitating Climate FDI
Up to $6 trillion in investment is required annually to achieve national climate goals and decarbonization.1 This paper outlines four categories of investment facilitation measures that investment promotion agencies (IPAs) and other authorities can adopt to increase climate-supportive investment. “Climate FDI” refers to foreign direct investment (FDI) that contributes to countries’ climate-aligned growth objectives. This may include investment projects that: are zero or low carbon in nature; aim to reduce the carbon footprint of economic activity; support the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHG) through emissions-reduction solutions and technologies; or are designed to improve the resilience of infrastructure to the effects of climate change. As such, climate FDI can take place across all sectors.