We live in a time where humanity is confronted by a host of serious, growing, intractable problems with global significance. The confluence of major trends that are already in place and potential global surprise events on the horizon ensure that we must tackle these systemic issues or shortly face severe consequences.

These ‘world’s biggest problems’ are each developing global threats with catastrophic consequences for human civilization - events that, singly, would swiftly and fatally disrupt core aspects of our global system.

Our world has grown both increasingly sophisticated and interconnected - technological advances ensure that the size, complexity and interdependence between communities are relentlessly increasing.

Our global system is confronted by multiple severe threats, problems that threaten the very fabric of contemporary human civilization.

What is required is a sophisticated initiative that synergistically fosters global public awareness and creative thinking on these system threats - a virtual clearinghouse for comprehensive and comprehensible information, which would simultaneously encourage collaboration by experts and amateurs world-wide.

The World’s Biggest Problems initiative is dedicated to researching, understanding, and educating people about the most significant issues of our time. We believe the world is at a tipping point and that radical change is inevitable; we plan to make that change a positive one.