
Consumers and Climate Change
BackgroundThe Consumers & Climate Change initiative convenes leaders from consumer-centric businesses and leading experts committed to advancing climate-friendly consumption behaviors...
Creating responsible models of consumption for the benefit of business and society.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming the consumption landscape by creating opportunities for value through game-changing technologies. With consumer spending driving approximately 60% of global GDP, embracing the power of technology to create value is paramount to ensuring progress throughout developed and emerging economies. Our Platform, with an engagement of over 150 organizations, has prioritized specific initiatives to leverage this opportunity.
Together we work to meet consumer expectations amid changing demographics. We drive the adoption of new technologies poised to transform value chains (from artificial intelligence to the internet of things and blockchain).
Our Platform supports innovative customer relationship models, while addressing trust and transparency concerns in the world of big data. With our Members and Partners, we tackle ensuing societal challenges including urban-rural divides, environmental degradation due to overconsumption, and worker reskilling to mitigate inequality.
BackgroundThe Consumers & Climate Change initiative convenes leaders from consumer-centric businesses and leading experts committed to advancing climate-friendly consumption behaviors...
As technology develops at an accelerated pace, cognitive abilities and tasks that were once thought to be reserved for humans are increasingly being carried out by machines, causing growi...
Half of the world's plastic production is for single-use items. And more than 90% of plastic is never recycled, instead polluting our planet’s landscapes and oceans. While efforts to impr...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has noted that health is “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely an absence of disease and infirmity”. Currently, p...
The Future of Consumption in Fast-Growth Consumer Markets is a multi-year project which focuses on the evolution of consumption in emerging markets (China, India, ASEAN) that comprise ove...
Trillions of dollars in investment will be required to transition the global economy to net-zero emissions and avert a climate catastrophe. This represents a massive opportunity for capit...
New 4IR advancements in biometric technologies and data have opened up opportunities for consumers to hyper-personalize and tailor services towards healthier outcomes in ways never before...
Challenge:Many institutions have focused their attention and resources mostly on data protection and privacy. Not only has this approach failed to harness the full value of data, but it h...
The Loop Initiative aims to establish a new model of consumption that ends society’s dependence on disposability and eliminates the idea of waste. By doing so, it supports responsible con...
8 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into the ocean each year. By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean—if we do not take urgent, collective action. Co-founded by pa...
The global pandemic has underscored the underlying and persistent problems that predated COVID-19 and have exacerbated its effects: climate change; pollution; inequity and inequality; poo...
This report sheds light on one of the fastest-growing economic regions in the world - ASEAN. ASEAN is expected to become the world’s fourth-largest economy and the third most populous by ...
This report sheds light on one of the fastest growing economies in the world - India. By 2030, India will see a tremendous jump in consumer spending driven by increased incomes, a billion...
Mindful of the systemic nature of the nutrition, food security and environmental challenges faced by today's food system, the present discussion paper focuses more specifically on the fut...
This report highlights how increasingly empowered consumers and rapidly emerging technologies are bringing dramatic and accelerating change to the fundamental structure of business and op...
This report argues that China will have the world’s largest middle class fueled by income-growth in the next 10 years.
This report highlights the game-changing technologies which will fundamentally change how retail and consumer brands do business over the next decade and shape new frontiers for physical ...
L'année 2020, marquée par la pandémie de Covid-19, a été en tout point exceptionnelle, y compris pour les ventes en supermarchés. Tous les ans, l'institut Nielsen communique les meilleure...