The World Economic Forum’s Annual Report outlines the key developments in 2024-2025. It provides an overview of the Forum’s centres and initiatives, progress from coalitions and key reports, and takeaways from select meetings, as well as the latest progress from the Forum’s core functions and operations.

This report by Securing Minerals for the Energy Transition (SMET) initiative, the Development Bank of Southern Africa and McKinsey & Company identifies financing barriers and practical solutions to scale critical minerals value chains in Southern Africa

The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025 report highlights 10 innovations with the potential to reshape industries and societies.

The Quantum Technologies: Key Strategies and Opportunities for Financial Services white paper assess the current state of quantum applications in financial services.

With the travel and tourism sector projected to contribute $16 trillion to global GDP by 2034 – more than 11% of the world’s economy – the industry faces unprecedented growth alongside complex challenges. This comprehensive report examines key growth drivers and addresses critical tension points. The report presents 10 guiding principles for sector transformation that provide actionable pathways for governments, businesses and communities to harness tourism’s potential while addressing sustainability imperatives.

After several years of slow momentum, energy transition progress has accelerated, according to the World Economic Forum's Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2025 report. The Energy Transition Index (ETI), which benchmarks 118 countries on their current energy system performance and on the readiness of their enabling environment, finds improvements in energy equity and sustainability driven by easing energy prices, subsidy reforms, lower energy and emission intensity and increased share of clean energy. However, energy security has made more limited progress, and transition readiness momentum has slowed. Meanwhile, global energy systems are facing increasing pressure from climate change, geopolitical, economic and technological disruptions.