Social Impact and Sustainability in China

企业碳中和路径图——落实巴黎协定和联合国可持续发展目标之路

此次BCG与联合全球契约组织联合撰写的报告主要关注企业在制定碳中和路线图时的三大环节、六大基础设施行业、九大具有普适性的重点碳中和举措和九大气候技术投资方向。

助力新达峰目标与碳中和愿景——戮力同心，共筑绿色未来

为实现“碳达峰和碳中和目标”，中国政府需要以绿色能源和绿色金融为抓手，加速关键行业的转型；金融机构在助力实现脱碳转型过程中发挥着至关重要的作用；而企业则是发展绿色经济的主力军，可以从能源结构转型、创建可持续的供应链和制定绿色发展战略等方面入手脱碳。

Climate Adaptation and Resilience

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.

AI Is Essential for Solving the Climate Crisis

Advanced analytics and artificial intelligence can be used to help manage challenging issues related to mitigating climate change and improving adaptation and resilience.

Let Science Be the Guide for Net-Zero Targets

Unless companies’ climate targets align with the latest science, they won’t be sufficient. Leaders must embrace bold action internally, within their value chains, and beyond.

Education as a Catalyst for Climate Progress

Education is a powerful means of spurring behavioral change and collective action, cultivating green skills, ensuring a just transition to a sustainable economy, and building communities’ adaptive capacity.

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

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.

Vaccinating Nations: Country Planning for an Unprecedented Immunization Campaign

The need for a successful roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines cannot be overstated. What are the four key elements to consider when planning an end-to-end vaccination deployment?

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

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.