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.
$9
In economic, social, and environmental benefits is the estimated return delivered for every $1 invested in ecosystem restoration.
75%
Of the Earth’s land surface has been significantly altered by human actions.
1.18 billion
People are exposed to significant flood risk — nearly one-quarter of humanity.
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 greenhouse gas emissions are linked to food systems, from production to consumption and waste.
25%
Of an average Europeans’ daily calories come from ultra-processed foods, with rapid growth in middle-income countries.
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.
239 million
People will require humanitarian assistance in 2026, while funding can reach barely half of those in need.
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.
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.
