Thought leadership

Our sustainability and Corporate Responsibility advisors have been helping clients find the right balance among competing economic, social and environmental goals for years. In this section, you'll find our latest thinking and see what PwC is doing around the world to benefit society.

  • Global CEO Survey: Redefining success Global CEO Survey: Redefining success
    Global CEO Survey: Redefining success
    PricewaterhouseCoopers' 12th Annual Global CEO Survey examines how top executives from around the world are balancing short-term survival with long-term durability. Beyond surviving the current economic crisis, CEOs are focussed on developing strategies for long-term success and are collaborating with stakeholders to address pertinent global issues including the aging population and climate change.
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  • The world in 2050 The world in 2050
    The world in 2050
    Can rapid global growth be reconciled with moving to a low carbon economy? This analysis updates our report, The world in 2050: Impact of global growth on carbon emissions and climate change policy, originally published in September 2006. Our updated analysis re-emphasises the scale of the challenge posed by global warming.
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  • Healthcast 2020: Creating a sustainable future Healthcast 2020: Creating a sustainable future
    Healthcast 2020: Creating a sustainable future
    In this groundbreaking report, HealthCast 2020, PricewaterhouseCoopers looks at solutions and responses from around the world to the globalisation and industrywide convergence of healthcare. What insights, best practices and policy lessons can be learned from experiences in various countries to create a globally sustainable health system? Who, or what, is driving the solutions?
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  • Managing tomorrow’s people Managing tomorrow’s people
    Managing tomorrow’s people
    Organisations today are facing some of the greatest people management challenges in the history of business: the talent crisis, an aging workforce in the Western world, the rising demands for global worker mobility and growing uncertainty around the sustainability of existing employment deals. But how will these changes impact businesses over the next decade?
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  • Empowering women to empower the earth Empowering women to empower the earth
    Empowering women to empower the earth
    Gender equality and environmental sustainability are two of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Are those two outcomes complementary? Recent research suggests that empowering women can empower the earth. This paper explores the interconnectedness between gender equality and sustainability along four possible pathways.
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  • Taking responsibility Taking responsibility
    Taking responsibility
    The first-ever PwC global corporate responsibility dialogue has been released this May (2008), to coincide with the announcement of the winners of the Global Communities Recognition Awards 2008. The dialogue outlines what corporate responsibility (CR) means to PwC and showcases some of the actions and initiatives our firms around the world are undertaking to make a positive impact on their communities.
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  • Do*2 Do*2
    Do*2
    In 2007 Global Communities produced the Do*2 report to bring to life the stories of community engagement from across the PwC network. Do*2 also positioned the commitment that PwC has to its community through the provision of a dedicated Global Communities office.
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  • Managing in a downturn: Charitable sector Managing in a downturn: Charitable sector
    Managing in a downturn: Charitable sector
    With many charities fearful of the impact of the recession on their income, PwC UK joined forces with the Charity Finance Directors' Group ("CFDG") and the Institute of Fundraising ("IOF") to undertake a survey of their respective members as to their expectations for the coming year and beyond and what actions they were taking as a result.
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