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Accenture has been partnering with the World Economic Forum and convening with business leaders to build industry resilience, reshape the future of industries and countries, and drive collaborative action.

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Banking and Capital Markets
Chemical and Advanced Materials
Consumer Industries
Utilities
Media, Entertainment and Sports
Mining and Metals
Energy

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AI
Cyber Resilience
Digital Transformation for Long Term Growth
Mobilizing Investments for Clean Energy in Emerging Economies
Metaverse
Net Zero Carbon Cities
Urban Transformation
Work, wages and job creation

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Consumer Goods and Services

Nutrition innovation playbook

Accelerating the transition to a healthy and sustainable food system: from renovation to reinvention.

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Banking and Capital Markets

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 transformation.

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Energy

Energy Transition Index report

The Energy Transition Index tracks progress and preparedness for an equitable, secure and sustainable energy future.

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Energy

Explore Energy Mobilizing clean energy investments in South Africa

South Africa has set a goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050

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Banking and capital markets

Capital Markets

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 transformation.

Banking

Modernizing financial markets with wCBDC

Over 98% of the global economy’s central banks are researching, piloting, or deploying central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Capital Markets

Broadening access to private markets

WEF, Lazard and Accenture share insights on the opportunities, risks and innovations required to responsibly broaden access to individuals.

Consumer industries

Consumer Goods and Services

Nutrition innovation playbook

Accelerating the transition to a healthy and sustainable food system: from renovation to reinvention.

Consumer Goods and Services

The pathway to a sustainable food system

Five strategic levers for cultivating a healthy and sustainable food system.

Consumer Goods and Services

Transforming the global food system

Five strategic levers for cultivating a healthy and sustainable food system.

Consumer Goods and Services

Achieving societal resilience: The nutrition opportunity

Consumer Goods and Services

Vision towards a responsible future of consumption

Retail

How do we move retail from today’s uncertainty to tomorrow’s resiliency?

Work, wages and job creation

Talent & Organization

Jobs for tomorrow

Large Language Models and Jobs - the integration of LLMs in various industries presents a paradigm shift in how we interact with information and, by extension, how we work.

Talent & Organization

Large Language Models and Jobs – A Business Toolkit

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing our interaction with information and transforming the workplace. These technologies can create content, analyze data, translate languages, and make decisions, potentially reshaping jobs and the future of work.

Media, entertainment and sports

The World Economic Forum and Accenture recently published a series of papers examining changes across the media and platforms ecosystem with a focus on the power of media to reflect a more diverse society.

Read the series from The World Economic Forum:

Benchmarking Diversity and Inclusion in Media and Entertainment: The Audience Representation Index
Reflecting Society: The State of Diverse Representation in Media and Entertainment
Why diversity is critical to media and entertainment - and how to achieve it
4 ways media and entertainment could be more equitable and diverse
What can China tell us about the future of social commerce and content?

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 (AI).

AI Governance Alliance: Briefing Paper Series

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 year to come. The report illuminates major findings and puts a spotlight on the widening cyber inequity and the profound impact of emerging technologies.

Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024

Digital transformation for long term growth

Interactive

Digital Culture

The driving force of digital transformation

Interactive

Next-generation business models

A guide to digital marketplaces

Metaverse

Metaverse identity

The metaverse has immense potential to reshape the way individuals live, work, and interact.

Metaverse

Navigating the industrial metaverse

Industrial metaverse has been widely adopted by innovators and early adopters, already creating tangible value across their operations.

Metaverse

Measuring digital trust

WEF's digital trust framework, a decision aid for leaders.

Urban transformation

Cities, Transport, and Infrastructure

Smart city planning must work for both private business and citizens

Cities, Transport, and Infrastructure

Cities are poised to reinvent public-private collaborations, but they need help

Net zero carbon cities

Accenture is supporting the World Economic Forum to localize Net Zero through the Net Zero Carbon Cities program. Cities are the frontline in tackling climate change – representing both the biggest challenge and opportunity to keep warming well below 2°C. Currently, more than half of the global population live in cities, consuming 78% of the world’s primary energy. generating more than 70% of global carbon emissions. By 2050, over two-thirds of the world population are set to live in cities. Changes need to happen now to reduce emissions and deliver resilient and equitable urban ecosystems. The mission is to create an enabling environment for clean electrification and circularity, resulting in urban decarbonization and resilience. The program aims to do this by fostering public private collaboration to bridge the gap across the energy, built environment and transport sectors.

Net Zero Carbon Cities Toolbox & Sprint

Urban Transformation: Integrated Energy Solutions

VIDEO: Urban Energy Transitions: A Clean Electrified Future

Mobilizing investments for clean energy in emerging economies

Sustainability

Delivering on the European Green Deal

European Green Deal, using examples and experiences in various areas and placing Group-specific insights into a broader market context.

Sustainability

Digital technology for emissions reduction

If brought to scale, digital technologies could reduce emissions by 20% by 2050 in the three highest-emitting sectors: energy, materials, and mobility.

Sustainability

Our Partnership with the World Economic Forum

Sustainability

System Value Analysis: Indonesia

Chemical and advanced materials

Chemicals

The net-zero industry tracker for the ammonia industry

Five actions critical for the ammonia industry to get on track to meet net-zero emissions goals.

Chemicals

Towards a net-zero chemical industry

A policy assessment of low-carbon emitting technologies, which will be essential for the future chemical industry.

Chemicals

Implementing Low-Carbon Emitting Technologies in the Chemical Industry: A Way Forward

5 key enablers are needed to accelerate the development and deployment of low-carbon emitting technologies and transform the chemical value chains towards climate neutrality.

Mining and metals

Natural Resources

Net-zero industry tracker 2023

An analysis of progress heavy industrial and transport sectors are making worldwide towards net-zero emissions by 2050.

Natural Resources

The net-zero industry tracker

A new framework to monitor and support the progress of the steel, cement and aluminium industries towards net zero.

Utilities

Accenture supported the World Economic Forum’s Electricity Industry Action group in creation of the System Value framework, which more holistically evaluates economic, environmental, social and technical outcomes of potential energy solutions. The framework can be used to support a diverse range of activities including investment decisions, policy decisions, as well as public-private dialogues between business, regulators and policy makers on solutions to accelerate economic growth and a clean energy transition.

POV: Industrial Clusters critical to achieving net-zero

World Economic Forum – The path to maximize system value

Blog: Industrial clusters are critical to getting to net-zero. Here’s why

Blog: System value can power the energy transition in emerging markets

How China set the path for net carbon neutrality by 2060

Energy

Energy Transition Index report

The Energy Transition Index tracks progress and preparedness for an equitable, secure and sustainable energy future. Countries across the world have reached record highs in their Energy Transition Index scores.

Energy

Mobilizing clean energy investments in South Africa

South Africa has set a goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, while also ensuring its short and long-term energy security.