Insights
Our insights explore practical strategies and reflect on the role values-based partnerships can play in addressing global challenges. Through case studies and dialogue with thought leaders, we examine how engaging faith actors and their perspectives can contribute to multistakeholder cooperation and shared problem-solving.
Faith in Action Report
World Economic Forum
This insight report reflects on how global leaders are exploring partnerships with faith actors through eight faith-based partnership case studies – on the environment, health, resilience and technology governance – and considers ways leaders can explore meaningful cooperation with faith actors at a time of deepening polarization and distrust in societies.
This report highlights key trends, opportunities, and case studies that showcase faith’s transformative potential.
Why faith and moral leadership in creating sustainable growth
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Council for Inclusive Capitalism
Businesses and communities alike are seeking renewed sources of strength and moral guidance amid a year that saw global temperatures breaching warming targets and voters going to the polls in a record number of countries. Moral leadership can be a force for public good, with capitalism leveraged for shared prosperity and sustainable growth.
Three simple principles can tackle social vulnerability, ESG goals
Alexis Crow, Partner, Chief Economist, PwC
Three key concepts offer business executives a way of instilling stewardship in the societies in which they operate, with the potential to reach across political divides, as well as across generations. These are: solidarity, subsidiarity and the dignity of work. Emanating from a theological and philosophical examination of the challenges posed to human labor by the Industrial Revolution, these three concepts form the bedrock of Catholic Social Teaching (CST) on economic life.
The Role of Faith in Systemic Global Challenges
Global Agenda Council on the Role of Faith 2014-2016
From climate change to gender parity, the World Economic Forum has identified critical global systemic challenges that require collaboration across different sectors. Understanding the dynamic role faith has in tackling each is the aim of this set of articles.