Private finance is playing a growing role in funding the SDGs and climate management. The report Capital as a Force for Good is based on an in-depth study in collaboration with 30 leading global financial institutions. It documents how these institutions are transforming capitalism for a more sustainable future. The study finds that finance industry leaders are increasingly choosing to be a ‘force for good’. The objective of the study is to use this evidence to stimulate corresponding changes in the broader financial sector for a sustainable future. Members of the Force for Good Project team and WAAS Fellows Ketan Patel and Lawrence Ford are key members of the Future Capital Initiative first convened at the UN in 2019 by WAAS, the UN Office for Partnerships and UNCTAD.
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Reports
2026
A wave of currently proven technologies can level up the world today with an investment boom; a second wave of emerging transformative technologies could create a US$750 trillion economy by 2060. The critical question is whether the world can navigate the current hypercrisis to get there.
2025
Today’s metacrisis of turbulence from wars, climate shocks, technological disruption, migration, and social unrest are part of a deeper civilisational shift from the Industrial to the Information Age. Without bold intervention, the world risks systemic instability, stalled human progress, and escalating climate disaster.
2025
This report offers a roadmap for transforming global challenges into opportunities. By embracing scalable solutions and leveraging technology, we can create a sustainable, secure, and superior future that leaves no one behind.
2024
Technology can provide the means to create a sustainable, secure, and superior world. It can help us finish the job of providing inclusion for all in finance, education, healthcare, housing, and dignified work across an increasingly technology enabled world.
2023 Special Edition
Achieving the SDGs by 2030 is possible with the right will, mobilization, and comprehensive implementation of key solutions and capital, even surpassing the targets.
2022
This report is a well-researched assessment of the challenges confronting humanity and proposes realistic approaches to addressing the most critical of them. The application of the report’s findings can generate the confidence and determination needed to accelerate implementation of the SDGs.
2021
This report to the World Academy of Art and Science, “Force for Good” is a Powerful Call for All in a world destabilized by the global coronavirus pandemic and its aftermath, the sense of urgency in addressing global challenges related to sustainability.
2020
The report identified the substantial “common ground” of actions of the finance industry leaders in doing good, and how they are breaking new ground in an ever-increasing innovative and competitive spirit and the returns from doing so.
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