World Solve

Build financial protection for recurrent floods, crop losses, storms, and heat events that are individually too small for aid but cumulatively devastating.

Develop ethical forecasting methods that identify areas likely to experience forced mobility from climate stress without stigmatizing populations or enabling exclusion.

Create restoration programs that improve coastal protection and carbon storage without excluding local fishers from traditional access and livelihoods.

Develop localized alerting systems that account for terrain, landslides, poor connectivity, and short warning windows in remote mountainous settlements.

Design legal and social systems for relocating communities exposed to erosion, flooding, drought, or sea-level rise while preserving rights, livelihoods, and identity.

Create practical risk models and investment plans for fast-growing cities that lack detailed maps, weather records, asset inventories, or technical staff.

Develop preservation and adaptation methods for dense historic urban areas where conventional drainage upgrades and building retrofits are difficult.

Create low-cost alternatives to high-emission cement, steel, and fired bricks while meeting structural safety, financing, and local labor constraints.

Integrate shore power, cargo equipment electrification, logistics optimization, local grids, and pollution monitoring in ports serving developing economies.

Develop locally calibrated weather and generation models for grids affected by rapidly changing clouds, aerosols, heat, and seasonal rainfall.

Develop modular panels, controllers, batteries, training, spare-parts supply, and warranties so off-grid solar systems remain functional beyond initial installation.

Create practical electrification, heat-pump, biomass, solar-thermal, and process-efficiency solutions for firms unable to finance large decarbonization projects.

Develop affordable kiln upgrades, alternative fuels, financing, and enforcement systems for fragmented brick industries that cause severe emissions and air pollution.

Create technologies and governance systems that reduce water use, waste, labor abuse, biodiversity loss, and geopolitical concentration in lithium, cobalt, nickel, and rare-earth supply.

Develop storage approaches that shift renewable energy across weeks or months rather than only across hours, without prohibitive material or infrastructure costs.

Create reliable hybrid energy systems for isolated sites with high, variable loads where diesel remains entrenched because outages are extremely costly.

Build low-cost standards, inverters, storage coordination, and incentive systems that enable high rooftop-solar adoption without destabilizing distribution grids.

Develop affordable manure management, runoff monitoring, and nutrient-recovery systems for farms too large for household methods but too small for industrial treatment.

Establish practical measurement methods and interventions for microplastics moving from rivers and sediments into fish, crops, livestock, and human diets.

Design toilets, containment, emptying, transport, and treatment systems that function during floods without exposing residents or sanitation workers to waste.