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Toward action: A G20 agenda for sustainable and inclusive growth
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Executive Briefing
Insights to Impact: A weekly briefing on creating sustainable and inclusive growth
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Seizing the momentum to build resilience for a future of sustainable inclusive growth
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Sustainable investing

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A new way to decarbonize buildings can lower emissions—profitably

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The role of public–private–philanthropic partnerships in driving climate and nature transitions
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Full throttle on net zero: Creating value in the face of uncertainty
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Cementing your lead: The cement industry in the net-zero transition
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Putting renewable energy within reach: Vietnam’s high-stakes pivot
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Toward net-zero emissions: Achieving Luxembourg’s sustainability ambitions
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Building food and agriculture businesses for a green future
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Accelerating the transition to net zero in life sciences
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How feed supplements can reduce methane emissions in agriculture
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Are Latin American financial institutions ready for sustainability?
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The agricultural transition: Building a sustainable future
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Good, better, best: Railways are advancing their ESG agenda
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Charting fuel choices as the shipping industry sails toward net zero
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Net-zero underwriting in P&C and the growth at stake
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Navigating the gray-to-green transition in aerospace and defense
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The path toward eco-friendly travel in China
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Financing the net-zero transition: From planning to practice
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Asia’s top CEOs embrace change with boldness and resilience
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Toward a sustainable, inclusive, growing future: The role of business
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Article - McKinsey Quarterly
A devilish duality: How CEOs can square resilience with net-zero promises
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Decarbonization: The new frontier for investment and innovation
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Charting a path for Vietnam to achieve its net-zero goals
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Charting a path for Vietnam to achieve its net-zero goals
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The importance of financial viability for the net-zero transition
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Accelerating the transition to net-zero travel
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How green can green growth be?
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A CFO’s perspective on sustainable, inclusive growth
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Three keys to a resilient postpandemic recovery
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The net-zero transition: What it would cost, what it could bring
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Financial inclusion and sustainable, inclusive growth in action
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Solving the net-zero equation in the United States
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Navigating America’s net-zero frontier: A guide for business leaders
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A complete corporate makeover: Keppel’s plan for sustainable growth
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Rise of the inclusive, sustainable consumers
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Net-zero steel in building and construction: The way forward
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Seizing green business growth for Asia’s energy players
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Seizing green business growth for Asia’s energy players
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Claire O’Neill
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Forward Thinking on the growing role of business in the net-zero transition with Claire O’Neill
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Net-zero emissions in US government fleets
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Playing offense to create value in the net-zero transition
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Green business building 

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Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
From niche to mainstream: Advancing partnerships in green investing
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Article - McKinsey Quarterly
A different high-growth story: The unique challenges of climate tech
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Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
Building a green energy ecosystem: Lessons from zolar
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Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
Bringing a digital platform to the home heating services market: Lessons from thermondo
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A circle of sustainability: A conversation with circulee’s Thomas Gros
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Indonesia takes the lead in sustainable, inclusive growth
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Interview - Learn to Leap
How start-ups can manage uncertain times: Insights from leading European venture capitalists
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Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
How a Spanish scale-up became a leader in green energy
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Green Growth: Capturing Asia’s $5 trillion green business opportunity
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Spotting green business opportunities in a surging net zero world
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Spotting green business opportunities in a surging net-zero world
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Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
Launching net-zero businesses: Lessons from a digital leader
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Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
From vision to green-tech unicorn: Lessons from Enpal
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Accelerating toward net zero: The green business building opportunity
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Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
How quantum computing can help tackle global warming
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Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
Companies that care: Lessons from a unicorn founder and his purpose-driven investor
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Make room for alternative proteins: What it takes to build a new sector
Interview - Learn to Leap: Green Business Building Edition
Make room for alternative proteins: What it takes to build a new sector
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The energy transition 

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How US states can advance a successful clean-energy transition

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Creating value from green M&A
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The growing imperative of energy optimization for telco networks
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Carbon removals: How to scale a new gigaton industry
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Decarbonize and create value: How incumbents can tackle the steep challenge
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Using digital and AI to meet the energy sector’s net-zero challenge
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Regulatory efficiency will be essential for the energy transition
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The net-zero transition: What it would cost, what it could bring
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The energy transition: A region-by-region agenda for near-term action
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Playing offense with green tech to achieve net-zero emissions
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Renewable-energy development in a net-zero world
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Decarbonising India: Charting a pathway for sustainable growth
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The heat is on: How public-sector leaders could drive net-zero goals
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Net-zero Spain: Europe’s decarbonization hub
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Spotting green business opportunities in a surging net zero world
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Spotting green business opportunities in a surging net-zero world
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Building decarbonization: How electric heat pumps could help reduce emissions today and going forward
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How a ‘materials transition’ can support the net-zero agenda
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Financing net zero: Banks and companies cooperating on decarbonization
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Roadside cliff
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Failure is not an option: Increasing the chances of achieving net zero
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Reaching net zero—what will it take?
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Delivering the climate technologies needed for net zero
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Infrastructure for a net-zero economy: Transformation ahead
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Infrastructure for a net-zero economy: Transformation ahead
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Inclusive growth 

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Latinos in Hollywood: Amplifying voices, expanding horizons

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The state of Black residents: The relevance of place to racial equity and outcomes
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Interactive - McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility
Impacts of climate change on Black populations in the United States
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The economic state of Latinos in America: Advancing financial growth
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Diversity matters even more: The case for holistic impact
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Women in the Workplace 2023
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Inclusive infrastructure investment: How to empower communities
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Race in the UK workplace: The intersectional experience
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Reimagining economic growth in Africa: Turning diversity into opportunity
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New leadership for a new era of thriving organizations
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Bridging another digital divide: Accessibility for blind and low-vision consumers
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Podcast - McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility
A guide to investing in Black economic mobility
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Closing the digital divide in Black America
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The economic state of Latinos in the US: Determined to thrive
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The overlooked contributions and hidden challenges of Asian Americans
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Women Matter Mexico 2022: Uneven parity
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Article - McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility
Investing in—and with—Black consumers in financial services
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Article - McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility
Rules of the road: Equitably serving Black automotive consumers
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What will it take to boost Latino economic power?
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Addressing unequal opportunity in an American city
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Podcast - MGI Research
Forward Thinking on trade, vaccines, and sustainable and inclusive growth with WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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Meeting the challenge of moms’ ‘double double shift’ at home and work
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The childcare conundrum: How can companies ease working parents’ return to the office?
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Closing the racial wealth gap by investing in Black consumers
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The labor market is upside down. Here’s what CEOs can do about it
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The case for inclusive growth
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The case for inclusive growth
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Are states ready to close the US digital divide?
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Operations 

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When technology meets operational excellence
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US manufacturing: The next frontier for sustainable, inclusive growth
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US manufacturing: The next frontier for sustainable, inclusive growth
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Want to drive inclusive economic growth? Start with manufacturing
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From the McKinsey Global Institute

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A better life everyone can afford: Lifting a quarter billion people to economic empowerment
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Report - MGI Research
The future of wealth and growth hangs in the balance
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Report - MGI Research
Rekindling US productivity for a new era
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Pixel global earth map
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Pixels of Progress: A granular look at human development around the world
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Global flows: The ties that bind in an interconnected world
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On the cusp of a new era?
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