Three interlocking goals—sustainability, inclusion, and growth—are critical for realizing a better global future. Senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Sven Smit, and Jonathan Woetzel and coauthors explore the tensions and trade-offs that can accompany the efforts to achieve these goals. For example, G20 member countries with lower incomes emit less CO2 per capita than wealthier economies, but they also tend to show less-desirable outcomes on inclusion measurements.
To read the report, see “Toward a sustainable, inclusive, growing future: The role of business,” November 13, 2022.
As 2022 comes to a close, be sure to browse through our feature, “2022: The year in charts,” which illuminates many of the ways the world is striving toward sustainable, inclusive growth. Charting the Path to the Next Normal will go on a brief hiatus starting December 23, 2022 and will return January 3, 2023. In the meantime, check out “What just happened?,” for McKinsey Publishing’s month-by-month journey through 2022.