World Solve

Growing crops in space or on other planets means dealing with low gravity, radiation, and limited water and soil. Without solving this, any permanent settlement beyond Earth stays dependent on costly resupply missions.

The absence of robust, context-adapted solutions for nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction that also support biodiversity and livelihoods creates cascading risks across interconnected human and natural systems. Key missing elements include durable performance, low lifetime cost, and governance arrangements capable of sustaining impact beyond pilot stages.

A persistent gap exists in realizing practical, scalable solutions for designs for energy and mobility systems that support both climate goals and social equity. Scientific understanding, engineering readiness and institutional capacity remain insufficient to translate promising concepts into durable impact under real-world constraints of cost, skills and governance.

Current approaches to nature-based solutions for wildfire risk reduction that also support ecosystem health either underperform under variable field conditions or generate externalities that undermine long-term sustainability and equity. Closing the gap requires coordinated advances in science, systems design and enabling institutions.

Communities in Ukraine recovering from disasters have almost no access to trained mental health counselors, and existing psychosocial first-aid programs are not designed to scale past a handful of trained volunteers.

Despite recognition of its importance, reliable methods for AI systems that support rather than displace human judgment in clinical and legal settings are still lacking. Progress is hindered by incomplete mechanistic knowledge, high capital and operational barriers, and the absence of deployment models suited to the contexts of greatest need.

Create conservation and restoration approaches that protect biodiversity while sustaining the people whose food, income, and culture depend on those ecosystems. The challenge is especially acute in informal settlements, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.

Develop shared services, workforce pathways, procurement support, tabletop exercises, and affordable tooling for municipalities responsible for essential services.

Develop early intervention, platform accountability, youth support, and research methods that reduce recruitment without criminalizing vulnerable communities.

Create verification, dependency management, secure update, open-source support, and contracting standards for software bought by public institutions.

Develop detection, remediation, legal accountability, secure-device access, and emergency support systems for targeted civil-society actors.

Develop integrated fisheries, water-flow, pollution, invasive-species, and habitat strategies for ecosystems supporting millions of people.

Create city planning and maintenance systems that support native plants, insects, birds, soil life, wetlands, and ecological connectivity.

Develop housing, credentialing, counseling, employer partnerships, legal support, and anti-stigma systems that prevent repeated exclusion.

Create affordable respite care, training, financial support, medical navigation, and community networks as dementia care increasingly occurs at home.

Develop flexible attendance, assessment, housing, healthcare, and academic-support models for students whose conditions fluctuate unpredictably.

Create interfaces, authentication, support, and consumer protections that enable safe independent banking without relying on text-heavy or smartphone-only systems.

Create workplace design, hiring, training, support, and anti-discrimination practices that recognize varied strengths and needs without forced masking.

Develop documentation, cross-border coordination, and legal-support systems that prevent children from being denied nationality, education, healthcare, and protection.

Create sustainable community care, pensions, housing, health, mobility, and digital-access systems for countries aging before becoming high-income.