World Solve

Develop credible reporting, legal protection, evidence handling, and anti-retaliation systems outside large corporations and public institutions.

Create age-appropriate programs that build emotional skills, peer support, referral pathways, and teacher capacity while respecting local culture.

Develop enforceable, economically viable protections for construction workers, delivery workers, street vendors, farm laborers, and factory workers exposed to dangerous heat.

Develop species selection, watering, soil protection, maintenance financing, and monitoring systems that allow urban tree canopies to survive rapid development.

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

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

Develop building, public-space, energy, health-alert, and worker-protection solutions for low-income neighborhoods facing extreme heat and intermittent power.

Citizens of Ethiopia generate growing volumes of personal data through digital services, but existing legal frameworks lack enforcement mechanisms to hold companies accountable for misuse.

Biodiversity hotspots in Nigeria depend on short-term donor grants that rarely cover more than a few years, leaving conservation programs unable to plan or retain trained staff long-term.

Gig economy workers in Australia lose access to healthcare and retirement benefits between short-term engagements because current labor protections are tied to single-employer relationships.

Current approaches to nature-based coastal protection that remains effective under high rates of sea-level rise 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.

Achieving nature-based solutions for coastal protection that support fisheries and tourism livelihoods at meaningful scale demands simultaneous progress in fundamental research, engineering integration and socio-technical systems that work for low- and middle-income settings. Existing efforts remain fragmented relative to the magnitude of the challenge.

Current approaches to planetary protection detection for forward and backward contamination 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.