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Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th-anniversary report
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In the tenth year of our Women in the Workplace research, in partnership with LeanIn.Org, we reflect on the notable gains women have made—and how their experiences at work are, in many ways, the same or worse than ten years ago. Sustainable progress toward parity requires that companies recommit to change.
Global Energy Perspective 2024
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As the global energy transition enters a new phase, our Global Energy Perspective 2024 presents a data-driven view of the possible road ahead.
Global Materials Perspective 2024
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As the energy transition continues apace, the global materials supply is adapting. Our Global Materials Perspective 2024 presents a data-driven view of the road ahead.
The hard stuff: Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition
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The energy transition is a physical transformation in its early stages. What challenges lie ahead?
Retailers’ climate road map: Charting paths to decarbonized value chains
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Most emissions captured in the average retailer’s Scope 3 metric are generated via product value chains. These value chains can be decarbonized—but only with targeted multistakeholder actions.
McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2024
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Which technology trends matter most for companies in 2024? New analysis by the McKinsey Technology Council highlights the adoption, development, and industry effects of advanced technologies.
Why aftermarket and service are vital to OEMs—and how to excel
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A comprehensive approach, supported by a strong enabling organization, can help B2B industrial manufacturers tap into the value of aftermarket and service.
The state of US women’s heart health: A path to improved health and financial outcomes
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Closing the cardiovascular-disease gap between men and women could help women regain 1.6 million years of life lost because of poor health and early death, and boost the US economy by $28 billion annually by 2040.
Netherlands advanced: Building a future labor market that works
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The Netherlands has high ambitions for living standards, housing, healthcare, education, and the environment, requiring higher productivity growth through technology and a “train of job transitions.”
Securing competitiveness in India’s chemical industry
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Boosting competitiveness could help chemical companies in India navigate global headwinds and shape a trillion-dollar chemicals market by 2040.
McKinsey China Auto Consumer Insights 2024
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Results from a new McKinsey survey reveal how consumer preferences for vehicles are evolving within China, one of the world’s most important automotive markets.
A new future of work: The race to deploy AI and raise skills in Europe and beyond
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To gain the full productivity benefits of generative AI and other technologies, Europe and the United States will need to focus both on improving human capital and accelerating technology adoption.
AI for social good: Improving lives and protecting the planet
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As AI advances from predictive to generative capabilities, its potential to address social issues defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals expands.
A microscope on small businesses: Spotting opportunities to boost productivity
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MSMEs are vital for growth and jobs, but struggle with productivity. The route to higher productivity lies in creating a win-win economic fabric for all companies.
Steady progress in approaching the quantum advantage
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Quantum technology could create value worth trillions of dollars within the next decade. The third annual synthesizes the latest opportunities in this burgeoning field.
From margins to mainstream: Asians and Pacific Islanders in Hollywood
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Asian and Pacific Islander consumers could generate billions of dollars in additional revenue—if the film and television industry can improve the representation and authenticity of API content.
State of Grocery Europe 2024: Signs of Hope
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Although economic uncertainty will likely persist in 2024, grocery retailers could fuel profitable growth by future-proofing the assortment, driving efficiency savings, and monetizing retail media.
McKinsey Global Private Markets Review 2024: Private markets in a slower era
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As financial institutions actively adopt emerging technologies, they should act now to future-proof themselves against growing cyber risks.
The cyber clock is ticking: Derisking emerging technologies in financial services
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As financial institutions actively adopt emerging technologies, they should act now to future-proof themselves against growing cyber risks.
Beyond the hype: Capturing the potential of AI and gen AI in TMT
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This collection presents McKinsey’s top insights on gen AI, providing a detailed examination of the significant opportunities and challenges it offers for leaders looking to steer their organizations into the future.
Top M&A trends in 2024: Blueprint for success in the next wave of deals
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Will 2024 launch a bright new era for M&A? Anticipating what could be an inflection point, many dealmakers are preparing for a surge—and new market requirements—in the year ahead.
The State of Energy Organizations 2024
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The coming decade will likely be a defining one for the global energy system.
The state of Black residents: The relevance of place to racial equity and outcomes
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At the current pace of change, it could take decades to improve outcomes for Black Americans and more than three centuries to get to racial parity. How can different types of communities move closer to delivering a better quality of life for all residents?
Closing the women’s health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies
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Investments addressing the women’s health gap could add years to life and life to years—and potentially boost the global economy by $1 trillion annually by 2040.
MCKINSEY GLOBAL INSTITUTE
The hard stuff: Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition
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The energy transition is a physical transformation in its early stages. What challenges lie ahead?
A new future of work: The race to deploy AI and raise skills in Europe and beyond
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To gain the full productivity benefits of generative AI and other technologies, Europe and the United States will need to focus both on improving human capital and accelerating technology adoption.
A microscope on small businesses: Spotting opportunities to boost productivity
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MSMEs are vital for growth and jobs, but struggle with productivity. The route to higher productivity lies in creating a win-win economic fabric for all companies.
Investing in productivity growth
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It’s time to raise investment and catch the next productivity wave.
Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade
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Global trade patterns are reconfiguring. More shifts are likely and businesses need to be aware of the potential trade-offs of different paths ahead.
From poverty to empowerment: Raising the bar for sustainable and inclusive growth
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What would it take to raise minimum living standards and get on a net-zero path in this decade? Our research explores twin ambitions for people and the planet.
Generative AI and the future of work in America
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Which jobs will be in demand? Which ones are shrinking? And which ones could be hardest to fill?
Empty spaces and hybrid places: The pandemic’s lasting impact on real estate
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Real estate in the world’s superstar cities has not kept up with shifts in behavior caused by the pandemic. The cities’ vibrancy is at risk, and they will have to adapt.
Reimagining economic growth in Africa: Turning diversity into opportunity
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Africa has the human capital and natural resources to accelerate productivity and reimagine its economic growth, which is, more than ever, vital for the welfare of the world.
The future of wealth and growth hangs in the balance
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The past two decades have generated $160 trillion in paper wealth but sluggish growth and rising inequality. What comes next?
On the cusp of a new era?
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Current economic and political turbulence could presage the start of a new era that is structurally very different with a new narrative of progress.
Securing Europe’s competitiveness: Addressing its technology gap
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Even amid war in Europe and the energy and cost of living crisis that has resulted, the region needs to pay attention to its slow-motion corporate and technology crisis.
Human capital at work: The value of experience
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Human capital represents two-thirds of wealth for the average individual—and work experience contributes almost half of that value.
The net-zero transition: What it would cost, what it could bring
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Governments and companies worldwide are pledging to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases. What would it take to fulfill that ambition?
Retail & Marketing
Time to move: Sporting goods 2024
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Many sporting goods executives are looking to 2024 with more optimism. But in the year ahead, they will need to adapt to shifting consumer preferences, revisit planning practices, embrace ecosystems, and take action on sustainability.
State of grocery Europe 2023: Living with and responding to uncertainty
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2022 was overshadowed by inflation. As that shadow is lifting, European grocers are gearing up for future growth by investing in private labels, retail media, automation, and sustainability.
Transforming the EU retail and wholesale sector
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To capitalize on change, companies must invest in sustainability, digitalization, and skills and talent.
2022 China Retail Digitalization Whitepaper: The next frontier of digital transformation in China’s retail industry
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Despite significant investment in omnichannel expansion, retailers in China are struggling to convert this into improved financial performance.
State of Fashion Technology Report 2022
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As technological innovation accelerates, fashion companies have an opportunity to serve customers better while also creating a more efficient, responsive, and responsible business.
The state of grocery retail
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As part of McKinsey’s ongoing coverage of the grocery industry, it publishes a range of reports and content on the factors and developments shaping the grocery landscape. Our in-depth research and analysis of specific regions features deep dives into trending topics as well as interviews with leading executives.
Risk
McKinsey on Risk: Resilience for sustainable, inclusive growth
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“Risk,” as defined by financial institutions, has not changed, and we understand that management of existing and potential threats is only part of the function. Positioning and growth amid this environment is equally essential in an effort to build resilience.
McKinsey on Risk, Number 13, October 2022
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Today’s business and public-sector leaders face a risk landscape disrupted at levels that few have seen before and none has ever confronted as an executive. We have reached a defining leadership moment, where executives are taking a step back and redefining resilience.
Technology & Transformation
McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2024
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Which technology trends matter most for companies in 2024? New analysis by the McKinsey Technology Council highlights the adoption, development, and industry effects of advanced technologies.
AI for social good: Improving lives and protecting the planet
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As AI advances from predictive to generative capabilities, its potential to address social issues defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals expands.
Steady progress in approaching the quantum advantage
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Quantum technology could create value worth trillions of dollars within the next decade. The third annual synthesizes the latest opportunities in this burgeoning field.
Beyond the hype: Capturing the potential of AI and gen AI in TMT
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This collection presents McKinsey’s top insights on gen AI, providing a detailed examination of the significant opportunities and challenges it offers for leaders looking to steer their organizations into the future.
Medtech Pulse: Thriving in the next decade
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Medtech leaders are devising strategies to catch the next wave of value creation amid uncertain macroeconomics and evolving industry trends.
McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2023
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Which technology trends matter most for companies in 2023? New analysis by the McKinsey Technology Council highlights the development, possible uses, and industry effects of advanced technologies.
The United Kingdom: The nexus of insurtech
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What is the key to the success of the UK insurtech sector—and where does the sector go from here?
The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
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Generative AI is poised to unleash the next wave of productivity. We take a first look at where business value could accrue and the potential impacts on the workforce.
The state of AI in 2022—and a half decade in review
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The results of this year’s McKinsey Global Survey on AI show the expansion of the technology’s use since we began tracking it five years ago, but with a nuanced picture underneath.
McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2022
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Which technology trends matter most for companies in 2022? New analysis by the McKinsey Technology Council highlights the development, possible uses, and industry effects of advanced technologies.
Finance & Investing
McKinsey Global Private Markets Review 2024: Private markets in a slower era
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As financial institutions actively adopt emerging technologies, they should act now to future-proof themselves against growing cyber risks.
The cyber clock is ticking: Derisking emerging technologies in financial services
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As financial institutions actively adopt emerging technologies, they should act now to future-proof themselves against growing cyber risks.
Top M&A trends in 2024: Blueprint for success in the next wave of deals
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Will 2024 launch a bright new era for M&A? Anticipating what could be an inflection point, many dealmakers are preparing for a surge—and new market requirements—in the year ahead.
US wealth management: Amid market turbulence, an industry converges
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Traditional delivery models may soon be history, as firms of all stripes broaden both their offerings and their target client and adviser segments. The competition will be intense.
Fintechs: A new paradigm of growth
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After decades of hypergrowth, fintechs have entered a new era of value creation, where the focus is on sustainable, profitable growth. This report examines how fintechs can win in these disruptive times.
Global Banking Annual Review 2023: The Great Banking Transition
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Banking profits are up, thanks to rising interest rates, but financial institutions globally need to reinvent themselves in the face of major structural and macroeconomic shifts.
On the cusp of the next payments era: Future opportunities for banks
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The 2023 McKinsey Global Payments Report shines a light on a changing industry and explains how banks and others can capitalize on new dynamics.
McKinsey Global Private Markets Annual Review
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According to our latest Global Private Markets Review, private markets faced a year of two halves in 2022, with buoyancy in the first half and plummeting deal volumes, declining performance, and falling valuations in the second.
Global balance sheet 2022: Enter volatility
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Growth in the global balance sheet accelerated during the pandemic, but paused in 2022.
McKinsey on Investing, Issue 8
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The newest edition of McKinsey on Investing examines a year of tumultuous change and its implications for investors, businesses, sectors, and the world in which we live.
Europe’s fintech opportunity
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Fintech has moved from the fringes of European finance to its core, but performance varies widely. If all countries could match the best in region, the economic benefits would be considerable.
The 2022 McKinsey Global Payments Report
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Despite challenges, the global payments sector is primed for a return growth.
McKinsey on Finance, Number 80
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McKinsey on Finance is a quarterly publication written by corporate finance experts and practitioners at McKinsey. It offers readers insights into value-creating strategies and the translation of those strategies into company performance.
Fintech in Africa: The end of the beginning
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Africa’s fintech industry is coming of age. In the face of political and economic challenges and a global pandemic, fintech on the continent is booming. Here’s what comes next.
McKinsey Global Private Markets Annual Review
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Updated annually, our Global Private Markets Review offers the best of our research and insight into private equity, real estate, debt, infrastructure, and natural resources.
Creating value, finding focus: Global Insurance Report 2022
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The insurance industry struggles to create economic profit. But amid COVID-19’s enduring changes, opportunities await.
Organization & Leadership
Netherlands advanced: Building a future labor market that works
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The Netherlands has high ambitions for living standards, housing, healthcare, education, and the environment, requiring higher productivity growth through technology and a “train of job transitions.”
Fulfilling the potential of US higher education
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With bold, decisive action, the US higher education sector could expand its impact, deliver on its promise of more-equitable outcomes, and improve the nation’s economic competitiveness.
CEO Counseling
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Explore McKinsey’s offerings on CEOs and the insights that shape the world of business leadership.
Author Talks: The collection
A series of interviews with authors of books on business and beyond.
Diversity & Inclusion
Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th-anniversary report
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In the tenth year of our Women in the Workplace research, in partnership with LeanIn.Org, we reflect on the notable gains women have made—and how their experiences at work are, in many ways, the same or worse than ten years ago. Sustainable progress toward parity requires that companies recommit to change.
From margins to mainstream: Asians and Pacific Islanders in Hollywood
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Asian and Pacific Islander consumers could generate billions of dollars in additional revenue—if the film and television industry can improve the representation and authenticity of API content.
Ethnocultural minorities in Europe: A potential triple win
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Greater inclusion of ethnocultural minorities could fill talent gaps and spur company growth, increase economic empowerment of these groups, and generate benefits for the economy and broader society.
The state of Black residents: The relevance of place to racial equity and outcomes
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At the current pace of change, it could take decades to improve outcomes for Black Americans and more than three centuries to get to racial parity. How can different types of communities move closer to delivering a better quality of life for all residents?
Closing the women’s health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies
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Investments addressing the women’s health gap could add years to life and life to years—and potentially boost the global economy by $1 trillion annually by 2040.
Women in the Workplace 2023
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Women are more ambitious than ever, and workplace flexibility is fueling them. Yet despite some hard-fought gains, women’s representation is not keeping pace. That’s according to the latest Women in the Workplace report from McKinsey, in partnership with LeanIn.Org.
The missing billion: Lack of disability data impedes healthcare equity
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Addressing the absence of health data on people with disabilities is the essential first step health systems and policy makers can take to reduce care inequity and improve outcomes for this population.
Empowering Black, Latina, and Native American women in tech
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The representation of Black, Latina, and Native American women in tech jobs is declining despite their rising share of tech degrees. Inclusive policies and practices could help companies retain them.
The economic state of Latinos in the US: Determined to thrive
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US Latinos are a driving force of the US economy and account for the fastest-growing portion of US GDP.
Women in the Workplace 2022
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Women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rates we’ve ever seen, and ambitious young women are prepared to do the same. To make meaningful and sustainable progress toward gender equality, companies need to go beyond table stakes. That’s according to the latest Women in the Workplace report from McKinsey, in partnership with LeanIn.Org.
Asian American workers: Diverse outcomes and hidden challenges
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Asian Americans often face invisible challenges at work. Organizations can maximize more of this group’s potential by acknowledging its diversity.
The state of diversity in global private markets: 2022
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New research captures regional differences in the state of diversity in private equity and discusses the role of institutional investors as a catalyst for change.
Race in the workplace: The frontline experience
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Three of four frontline workers want to be promoted, but less than one in four achieves it. Companies can take targeted actions to better support these workers.
Sustainability
Global Energy Perspective 2024
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As the global energy transition enters a new phase, our Global Energy Perspective 2024 presents a data-driven view of the possible road ahead.
Global Materials Perspective 2024
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As the energy transition continues apace, the global materials supply is adapting. Our Global Materials Perspective 2024 presents a data-driven view of the road ahead.
Retailers’ climate road map: Charting paths to decarbonized value chains
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Most emissions captured in the average retailer’s Scope 3 metric are generated via product value chains. These value chains can be decarbonized—but only with targeted multistakeholder actions.
Building value by decarbonizing the built environment
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Accelerating decarbonization in the built environment is essential for a sustainable future, but industry challenges need to be addressed for solutions to scale.
Aluminum decarbonization at a cost that makes sense
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Production of this important metal has a significant carbon footprint. The path toward greener aluminum will require the participation of multiple stakeholders.
Uniquely Austin: Stewarding growth in America’s boomtown
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Austin is a booming region and an ascending economic powerhouse, but there are growing pains. Together, the region’s leaders can build a sustainable and inclusive future.
Toward a sustainable, inclusive, growing future: The role of business
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To make the world as sustainable and inclusive as we hope, a certain kind of economic growth will be necessary—and companies will play a vital role in generating it.
Decarbonising India: Charting a pathway for sustainable growth
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This will be a decisive decade. With intentional action, India can accelerate decarbonisation at scale while pursuing economic growth.
Net-zero Spain: Europe’s decarbonization hub
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Spain can reach net-zero emissions by 2050 through a society-wide effort that leverages the country’s natural endowments and new technologies to unlock sustainable and inclusive growth.
Accelerating the transition to net-zero travel
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Despite the best intentions, many travel companies are struggling to reduce their emissions fast enough. A report by McKinsey and Skift provides four practical recommendations.
Nature and financial institutions in Africa: A first assessment of opportunities and risks
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Africa’s climate resilience can be strengthened by redefining its economic model to leverage natural capital and designing financial systems to redirect critical nature-based investments.
Houston as the epicenter of a global clean-hydrogen hub
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Clean hydrogen is emerging as a viable way to reach net zero. In the United States, clean-hydrogen efforts in Houston, Texas, could serve as a template for other regions.
Net-zero steel in building and construction: The way forward
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Rising demand for greener approaches creates an imperative for the industry to seize the moment, adopt new mindsets, and set standards for the transition to a greener future.
Global Energy Perspective 2022
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We're in the midst of an energy transition that continues to evolve.
Accelerating India’s sustainability journey in chemicals
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To better confront climate change, chemical companies should take a holistic approach to ESG and aim to improve performance on environmental metrics.
Closing the loop: Increasing fashion circularity in California
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The fashion value chain is predominantly linear and global. It has put the apparel industry on an unsustainable path.
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