The Future of Climate Risk

The World Economic Forum – McKinsey knowledge collaboration on the future of climate risk focuses on two main topics. One, on the future of natural capital, looks to shape biodiversity and the use of biosystems for naturally based solutions to mitigate risk and build resilience. The other, on the clean skies of tomorrow, seeks to shape the sustainability of airlines.

Featured insights on climate risk

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The net-zero transition in the wake of the war in Ukraine: A detour, a derailment, or a different path?

May 19, 2022 – The invasion of Ukraine will, at least initially, complicate the transition path to a net-zero economy, but this tragic development could still prove to be a turning point in accelerating progress in the medium run.

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Navigating America’s net-zero frontier: A guide for business leaders

May 5, 2022 – The US government has a goal: net-zero emissions by 2050. Our analysis maps out a pathway to this net-zero frontier—and the growth opportunities that $27 trillion of capital spending could create.

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The net-zero transition: What it would cost, what it could bring

January 25, 2022 – This McKinsey report offers a detailed look at the economic and societal impact of the transition to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Protecting people from a changing climate: The case for resilience

November 8, 2021 – Our new study lays bare the potential impact of climate risks for people across the globe—and underscores the need to protect...

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Reimagining industrial operations

May 19, 2020 – Through innovation, advanced analytics, digitization, electrification, and process efficiencies, carbon-intensive operations underpinning...

Report - McKinsey Global Institute

Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts

January 16, 2020 – How could Earth’s changing climate impact socioeconomic systems across the world in the next three decades? A yearlong, cross-disciplinary...

Natural capital

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Blue carbon: The potential of coastal and oceanic climate action

May 13, 2022 – Nature-based climate solutions in the world’s oceans can play an important role in conservation and carbon abatement efforts worldwide.

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It’s time to scale up natural climate solutions—here’s how

June 4, 2021 – Holding the rise of global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial averages, an ambition specified in the Paris Agreement, will require cutting net emissions of greenhouse gases roughly in half by 2030 and to zero by 2050.

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Why investing in nature is key to climate mitigation

January 25, 2021 – A new consultation paper from McKinsey and the World Economic Forum explores the role that natural climate solutions can play in helping to address climate change and the destruction of nature.

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Reduced dividends on natural capital?

June 29, 2020 – The world’s stock of natural resources performs a range of services that are essential to human well-being. But climate change is accelerating the depletion of natural capital.