ZERI
It seeks solutions to world challenges, viewing "waste as a resource and seeking solutions using nature's design principles as inspiration." It also "seeks sustainable solutions for society, from unreached communities...
Youth2030 Progress Report: 2023
It marks a significant milestone, commemorating five years since the UN Youth Strategy, Youth2030 launch. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the progress made in implementing Youth2030, comparing baseline...
Youth Challenge International
It's approach to driving "creative, market-ready solutions that catapult youth around the world to succeed and prosper." explores the "intersection between youth and innovation by addressing health, the environment and...
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy
It aims to design the transitions to a sustainable society, by means of a transdisciplinary approach that encourages systems understanding. The research focuses on transition processes, with four teams: 1)...
Worldometer
A portal containing live "world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health." It aims to make "world statistics available in a thought-provoking...
World’s Largest Lesson
Education, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable Schools, United Nations Agencies | Programs | Projects
It allows school children to develop global citizenship by learning about and participating in various subjects such as science, geography, and technology. They can also develop big ideas about the...
World Youth Alliance
It is dedicated "to defending the dignity of the people through education, culture, and advocacy." Consequently, it strives to "build a global coalition of young people able to articulate, defend...
World YMCA
It "supports and facilitates some 120 national YMCAs and four regional Alliances across the globe, to provide young people with safe spaces and opportunities to take an active role in...
World Wildlife Fund
It's one of the “world’s leading conservation organizations,” best known for its panda logo. It's mission is to “conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of...
World Water Assessment Programme
Freshwater, Sustainability Assessment, Sustainable Water Management, United Nations Agencies | Programs | Projects
The UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) commissioned the WWAP to produce a UN system-wide periodic global overview (at first triennial, now annual) of the status (quantity and quality), use,...
World Vision International
A worldwide faith-based organization, with 80 international offices. It works with "communities, donors, partners, and governments to create opportunities for better futures for vulnerable children … even in the toughest...
World University Consortium
It's aim is to "evolve and promote development of accessible, affordable, quality higher education worldwide based on a human-centered approach that shifts the emphasis from specialized expertise to contextualized knowledge...
World Peace Foundation
It aims to educate "the people of all nations to a full knowledge of the waste and destructiveness of war and of preparation for war.” It seeks “to make achieving...
World Futures Studies Federation
It's geared towards "strengthening the scholarship of futures research." It offers a forum for plans for alternative futures, through long-term, big-picture thinking and radical change. WFSF is a UNESCO and...
World Future Council
The World Future Council was formed to "speak on behalf of policy solutions that serve the interests of future generations", focusing on identifying and spreading effective, future-just policy solutions. It...
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
It seeks to demonstrate “environmental protection coupled with economic growth". It also comprises a Regional Network of 60 national and regional partner organizations called Business Councils for Sustainable Development (BCSDs),...
World Business Academy
It explores the role of business in relation to critical moral, environmental, and social issues of our time" with the aim to "provide the public with information and resources about...
World Beyond War
A global grassroots movement composed of a network of volunteers, activists and organizations "educating and mobilizing to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace." Publications: Podcast Videos Books...
World Bank
Cities, Climate Change, Desalination, Ecosystem Services | Natural Wealth Valuation, Green Growth | Jobs | Economy
It is a "unique global partnership", with "five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries". It does so by "providing loans to...
World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations
It works to unite NGOs worldwide in the cause of advancing peace and global well-being. It helps "to provide the mechanism and support needed for NGOs to connect, partner up...