SEE HOW THE WORLD CAN CHANGE
SEE HOW THE WORLD CAN CHANGE
Our Solutions Agenda represents The Conduit’s six high-impact focus areas. Established in 2025, it guides our programming, publishing, and coalition-building.
The Agenda brings focus and discipline — a framework that channels our collective energy into the places where action is most possible, turning insight and storytelling into a pipeline of promising solutions.
Across these areas, we ‘solution scout’ to surface the most promising ideas ready to seed or scale, through capital or within our own Solutions Lab.
Regenerating Climate & Nature
Moving from protection to regeneration — restoring ecosystems, building resilience, and redefining humanity’s relationship with the planet.
8,000km
Of reforested land creating a “Great Green Wall” across the African Sahel. Launched by the African Union in 2007, the initiative aims to restore 100 million hectares of land across 11 countries, and sequester 250mn tonnes of carbon.
75%
Of the Earth’s land surface has been significantly altered by human actions. But every $1 invested in ecosystem restoration is estimated to deliver a $9 return in economic, social, and environmental benefits.
25,000m3
Of water that the newly redesigned Enghaveparken park in Copenhagen can absorb. This “sponge park” acts as a massive reservoir of rainwater to protect surrounding neighbourhoods from flooding.
Inclusive Economies
Building fair, future-fit economic systems that enable shared prosperity, opportunity, and dignity in work and wealth creation.
$10.8 trillion
Estimated annual value of unpaid care work globally — largely carried by women — exceeding the size of the global tech industry.
0.001%
Of the world’s population, around 60,000 people hold three times the wealth of the poorest half of humanity.
58%
Share of the global workforce employed informally, without job security, benefits, or representation — limiting productivity, tax base, and resilience.
Health & Food Futures
Advancing individual, public, and planetary health — from reimagining food systems and preventive care to strengthening health equity, access, and innovation.
70%
Of maternal deaths are preventable with access to quality health care, underscoring failures of delivery rather than knowledge.
1/3
Of all global global grenhouse gas emissions are linked to food systems, from production to consumption and waste.
30%
Of global crop land that has been lost to climate change. In the last fifty years, the area of drylands in drought has increased on average by more than 1 per cent per year.
Future of Impact Leadership
Cultivating courageous, values-driven leadership to navigate complexity and accelerate systemic change.
96%
Of the world’s largest companies that publish sustainability reports — yet only a minority translate those commitments into binding targets, incentives, and governance. Source: KPMG Survey of Sustainability Reporting 2024.
$7.1 billion
The amount billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated to charity in 2025. Since her divorce from Jeff Bezos in 2019 she has given over $26bn to charity.
83%
Of USAID programmes were cancelled in 2025, dismantling the primary delivery arm of the world’s largest aid donor.
AI for Good
Harnessing the power of technology and data to advance human and planetary progress.
93% v 8%
Humanitarian professionals who have used AI tools, compared to organisations that have formally integrated AI — a widening capability gap.
80 million
tonnes of CO₂ emissions were the result of the global AI boom in 2025, roughly equivalent to the annual carbon output of New York City.
945 TWh
Projected annual electricity consumption of global data centres by 2030 — roughly double today’s level, driven in part by AI. Source: International Energy Agency, 2024.
Reimagining Democracy & Justice
Rebuilding trust in institutions, protecting rights, and designing more participatory, accountable, and inclusive systems of power.
72%
of people now live under autocratic rule, with democracies declining for the 20th consecutive year.
70%
of people globally worry that government and business leaders deliberately mislead the public, undermining institutional trust.
123 million
people were forcibly displaced by the end of 2024 (≈1 in 65 of all the people on Earth).
HOW CAN You Help?
Solutions require collaboration. If you or your organisation work in any of the areas discussed here, and you would like to be involved, we’d love to hear from you.