Paths to sustainable growth
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.
View our insights by Industry or Services:
- Media, Entertainment and Sports
- Banking and Capital Markets
- Consumer Industries
- Work, wages and job creation
- Cyber Resilience
- Digital Transformation for Long Term Growth
- Urban Transformation
- Net Zero Carbon Cities
- Mobilizing Investments for Clean Energy in Emerging Economies
- Chemical and Advanced Materials
- Mining and Metals
- Electricity
- Oil and Gas
Banking and capital markets
The pandemic has set the stage for a looming credit crisis. Capital markets has an opportunity to help economies and also re-invent itself.
Why banks need a strategy to balance clients’ critical needs and those of shareholders and society.
Our Forum article looks at how banks can creatively develop funding solutions for liquidity-strapped clients.
Consumer industries
How nutrition can improve societal resilience.
Consumers expect CPG companies to lead broad change post the COVID-19 pandemic.
Work, wages and job creation
Accenture worked with Walmart, Unilever, SkyHive and World Economic Forum to launch a pilot program to create more sustainable opportunities for people.
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?
We examine the issues that Platform and Media businesses must address, steps they can take to improve and the value they will generate from doing so.
Cyber resilience
As part of a broader cyber resilience project, the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity and Accenture recently published the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022 Report. This inaugural report examines cybersecurity and cyber resilience trends and insights collected from 120 global cyber leaders. A key finding of the report is a divergence in how Business Leaders and Security-focused Leaders view their current state of cyber resilience.
Digital transformation for long term growth
Urban transformation
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
Mobilizing investments for clean energy in emerging economies
If brought to scale, digital technologies could reduce emissions by 20% by 2050 in the three highest-emitting sectors: energy, materials, and mobility.
If brought to scale, digital technologies could reduce emissions by 20% by 2050 in the three highest-emitting sectors: energy, materials, and mobility.
Live updates from The World Economic Forum
Chemical and advanced materials
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.
Growing instability globally will require new management practices in response to forecasting.
Many chemical exports were prevented during the pandemic, future success rests on flexible, equitable trade.
Mining and metals
Find out why the aluminium sector must accelerate action to meet global decarbonization goals.
Prepare for disruption through new approaches to work, a connected value chain, and a clear sense of purpose.
Electricity
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 four solutions to net-zero
Blog: Industrial clusters are critical to getting to net-zero. Here’s why
Blog: System value can power the energy transition in emerging markets
Oil and gas
We can work together to advance the collective transition journey to 2050.
See 10 key insights that can steer the transition to progress in the journey ahead.