Climate Adaptation and Resilience

Safeguarding Coastal Cities from Climate Change

Emerging economy areas like Lagos face droughts, flooding, and sea level rise. With robust adaptation and resilience strategies, they can protect themselves and become climate innovation leaders.

The Sustainability Imperative in Emerging Markets

Companies that meet ESG challenges in emerging markets find that being a sustainability leader unlocks growth opportunities.

A Just Energy Transition Takes an Ecosystem

As energy companies transition to a green economy, the livelihoods of millions of people working in carbon-intensive industries will be affected. Here’s how to make sure no one gets left behind.

Strategies for Scaling Africa’s Green Ventures

To combat climate change in Africa effectively, investors, governments, and companies must collaboratively develop and finance sustainability-driven ventures that can grow rapidly across the continent’s business ecosystem.

Sustainable Investing and ESG

It’s Time for Institutional Investors to Embrace the S in ESG

Institutional investors were late to realize the alpha potential of clean tech and other environmental investments. They should avoid making the same mistake with social impact.

Better Climate Financing Depends on Better Data

A new report by The Rockefeller Foundation and Boston Consulting Group finds that without standardized taxonomies, it can be difficult—if not impossible—for catalytic investors to trace financing flows and pinpoint gaps that they can meaningfully target.

How Boards Can Focus on What Matters in Sustainability

Boards are not carving out time for high-value strategic work when it comes to environmental, social, and governance. And that’s a problem for companies pushing for sustainability.

Directors Can Up Their Game on Environmental, Social, and Governance Issues

Board members at companies across geographies and industries understand that competitive advantage increasingly demands sustainability. And that is rapidly pushing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues higher on board agendas.

Global Health

How Public-Health Leaders Can Fight the Next Pandemic

COVID-19 offered valuable lessons in combating epidemic-level disease. Four measures can help institutionalize what we’ve learned.

The Future of Digital Health

Experts across BCG and BCG X talk about the trends and opportunities that lie ahead for the digital health care market.

Reimagining Global Health After the Coronavirus

What has worked, what can be improved, and what needs to be reimagined so that we are better prepared for the next pandemic and better able to improve health in the world’s poorest nations?

Finding the Signal: Harnessing AI and Advanced Analytics for Climate and Global Health

AI and advanced analytics can be used to interpret and predict the global health consequences of climate change. In this report, BCG and USAID outline an action plan to show how stakeholders can align their efforts in machine learning to strengthen development outcomes.

Economic Development

Africa’s Opportunity in Digital Skills and Climate Analytics

The continent is rich in youthful, entrepreneurial energy. Well-planned investments now can help Africa transform itself into a global center of technological and ecological innovation.

Six Megatrends That Are Changing Africa—and How to Navigate Them

Africa is setting its sights on a future shaped by a young population, rapid urbanization, climate change, growing digital capacity, regional cooperation, and entrepreneurial innovation.

Humanitarian Response

Supporting Ukraine: A Study on Potential Recovery Strategies for Ukraine

Recovery efforts in Ukraine hinge on the country's capacity to absorb technical and financial support. BCG and The European Investment Bank recommend key frameworks and principals for maximizing the economic and social impact of these efforts, as well as strategies for prioritizing funding and support.

Migration Matters: A Human Cause with a $20 Trillion Business Case

Companies must deploy three strategies—centered on global talent, cross-border innovation, and taking a stand for human rights—to maximize value from migration.

The Private Sector's Role in Humanitarian Crises

David Young clarifies the private sector's role in preparing for humanitarian crises for the good of the business, its employees, and the country in which it operates.

Food Systems and Security

How Is the World Going to Provide Food to Ten Billion People?

Jim Andrew, a BCG alumnus and current chief sustainability officer at PepsiCo, discusses the business case for regenerative agriculture and working with farmers to drive more sustainable practices.

The War in Ukraine and the Rush to Feed the World

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, our global food systems are struggling to feed those most at risk.

Agribusiness Can Lead the Shift to Sustainable Farming

New regulations are pushing farmers and their suppliers to adopt environmental practices. Traditionalists see this as a disruption, but leaders will treat it as an opportunity.

The Time Is Ripe for Food Traceability

Food traceability is here to stay. The question is whether food companies, distributors, and retailers treat it as a regulatory burden or a strategic opportunity.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

What a Multicountry Study Reveals About K–12 Education Models for Students with Disabilities

An analysis of 13 developed countries’ experiences with three education models for students with disabilities offers practical guidance for policymakers and educators.

To Fix the Labor Shortage, Solve the Care Crisis

The US desperately needs workers. Workers desperately need help taking care of their children and (increasingly) their parents.

Know Where You Stand to Take a Stand on Equity

Once regarded as punitive actions, equity assessments are emerging as rich opportunities for organizations willing to take a closer look at their diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.

Racial Equity in Banking Starts with Busting the Myths

Misconceptions about Black and Latinx un/underbanked households make it hard for the financial sector to address the problem effectively.