Repository of problems worth solving
World Solve is a public institutional repository for identifying real unresolved problems across science, society, health, governance, economics, and local systems. Each entry is intended to be citable, inspectable, and actionable.
Publicly citable
Every problem has a stable citation code for reference and discussion.
Filtered by relevance
Search by category, geography, status, and keywords.
Builder-oriented
Use the repository to find startup ideas, policy leads, and research agendas.
4194Total
4194Open
0Solved
9Humans
open
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
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.
climate-environment
africa
democratic-republic-of-the-congo
biodiversity
sustainable
extraction
critical
minerals
energy
transition
create
technologies
governance
systems
society-governance
global-unspecified
water
economics-resources
A persistent gap exists in realizing practical, scalable solutions for methods for assessing the resilience of supply chains to climate and geopolitical disruptions. 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.
society-governance
oceania
australia
supply-chain
solutions
methods
assessing
resilience
supply
chains
climate
geopolitical
disruptions
systemic
systems
climate-environment
scalable
institutional
open
Ecuador, South America
The absence of robust, context-adapted solutions for methods for assessing the resilience of food systems to simultaneous climate and geopolitical shocks 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.
climate-environment
south-america
ecuador
systems
methods
assessing
resilience
food
simultaneous
climate
geopolitical
shocks
practical
society-governance
solutions
ensuring
designs
enabling
