1000+ Solutions for Qualitative Growth
To address sustainability challenges while enabling economic growth, Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse Foundation have identified 1000+ clean and profitable solutions.
Explorer for sustainability
Bertrand dedicates his life to demonstrate the opportunities lying in sustainable development and to raise interest in profitable solutions to protect the environment.
Pioneering vision
As a pioneer, he understood that fighting climate change with clean and efficient technologies is opening-up new industrial markets and offering a unique and profitable opportunity for economic growth.
Educations cornerfor children, students and families
Solar Impulse was not built to carry passengers, but to carry a message. It provides a powerful educational platform for schools and universities students.
Endorsing the World Alliance
The World Alliance has entered in close and impactful collaboration with several international institutions, states and cities around the world to facilitate the selection, funding and implementation of the #1000solutions.
Supporting the World Alliance
World Alliance is working with like-minded incubators, accelerators and organizations to create a worldwide network to source 1000 clean, efficient and profitable solutions.
A shared vision for a clean future
The Solar Impulse Foundation and its Partners share a strong long-term vision: we want to promote clean and profitable solutions that tackle climate change and future-proof our societies.
A team is most of all a spirit
The Solar Impulse Foundation spirit is the cement that brings the team together. Professionals from all backgrounds, they know that the future can be written in renewable energy and clean processes.
The search-engine for climate action
The Explorer is a one-of-a-kind search engine that showcases profitable climate solutions from all over the world which are part of an ever-growing, curated, and publicly-accessible database.
A label focused on both environment and profitability
Assessed by independent experts, the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label, serves as a credible marker of quality to decision-makers in business and governments.
Submit your Efficient Solution
For the first time a label assesses the economic profitability of solutions that protect the environment.Sign up to become a Member of the World Alliance for Efficient Solutions and submit it now!
What is the Experts’ role in evaluating the Solutions?
The Experts are key in the labelling process, using their technical and professional expertise to assess and critique Solutions seeking the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label.
How to become an Expert?
If you have more than five years technical experience in one of our target SDGS (6, 7, 9, 11, 12), the Expert role may be for you! You will be assigned Solutions fitting your expertise to review and assess.
Guiding users to implement efficient solutions in cities
This guide looks at the challenges that cities face to become more sustainable, suggesting solutions that help decision makers to harness the economic opportunities of the ecological transition.
The Solutions for Cities Initiative
Proposing solutions to help decision makers harness the economic opportunities of the ecological transition whilst reducing their environmental footprint.
The topics we focus on
Advocating for global action
The Foundation engages with the stakeholders of the ecological transition using the 1000+ Solutions Explorer as a mean to support this effort.
Engaging at international fora
Pushing for the adoption of effective modern regulations with businesses and governments.
Bringing solutions to cities and regions
Cities and regions have a crucial role to play in the race to decarbonise our economies.
COP27 - 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference
At COP 27, countries come together to take action towards achieving the world’s collective climate goals as agreed under the Paris Agreement and the Convention.
50 ‘Prêt à Voter’ proposals
Discover the ‘Prêt à Voter’ initiative, which takes clean technologies as a starting point to guide the modernisation of the French legal and regulatory framework.
The world alliance, an ever-expanding network
The World Alliance for Efficient Solutions brings together the main actors in the field of clean technologies to create synergies, facilitate matchmaking between solution providers and investors.
Innovators
Providing clean and profitable solutions that have the potential to address today’s environmental challenges.
Investors
Looking for clean and profitable investments opportunities.
Seekers
Needing efficient solutions, ready to be implemented, to reach environmental targets.
Are you an innovator developing an efficient solution?
Get a neutral and rigorous evaluation of your solution by leading experts in your field and gain visibility as part of the Solutions Explorer.
A credible marker of quality to decision-makers in business and governments
The Solar Impulse Foundation will assess and label the solutions submitted by the World Alliance Members and bring support to members in the labelling process in order to help them being part of the Solutions Explorer.
Do you invest in clean and profitable technologies?
Get access to sustainable innovations and identify cutting-edge clean solutions for profitable investments.
An ever-expanding network
Search through our members database to find innovators, investors or solution seekers that you can interact with and find opportunities for collaboration.
Are you looking to implement solutions?
Get a credible tool to facilitate the solutions sourcing to reach environmental commitments.
The Efficient Solutions portfolio
A «pool» of solutions, ready to be promoted among decision-makers By bringing to decision-makers 1000+ clean and profitable solutions.
The World Alliance Charter
This Charter lays out the principles and values which guide the World Alliance and all of its Members.
Upcoming events and opportunities
Read about the events and activities which will be part of the Solar Impulse Foundation - or Bertrand Piccard - schedule.
Biodiversity Incubator
A land management system that rewards soil quality and biodiversity restoration by regularly producing valuable harvest
Buy Back Program for Mobile Devices
Back2Buzz incentives customers to trade in their old mobile devices, to refurbish them and give them an extended life
SopraStar
Smart waterproofing membrane for flat roof that reflect Solar Radiation to reduce air conditionning & heat urban island
News
Matchmaking adopters and innovators in the ile de France
March 22, 2023
Interviews
Expert of the Year 2022: Dr. Henry Hunt-Grubbe!
January 10, 2023
1000+ Solutions for Cities - Exhibition in Grenoble
January 18, 2022
A rapid modernisation of Switzerland's legislative framework is necessary,...
June 01, 2023
May's Efficient Solution Stories: Revolutionizing Plastic Recycling and more
May 31, 2023
Yes to the Climate & Innovation law
May 15, 2023
News - July 8, 2020
Written by Thomas Weeks 5 min read
Cheap heat & power for municipalities generated from a local source
A waste management system matchmaking platform between manufacturing and construction companies
Preventing the discharge of nitrate and phosphate from greenhouses
Sustainable paper and packaging from waste
A stepstone towards circular economy in the textile and fashion industry
A plug-and-play, flexible solar kit for domestic applications
Smarter, healthier, and sustainable buildings through iot sensors, actuators, and fuzzy algorithms
An AI and Sensor-based technology to communicate and manage building systems
An energy retrofit digital platform for social, cooperative and public housing portfolios
World's first AI-based smart waste bin that recognizes and sorts the waste automatically.
Insects as a source of food
An eco-designed and connected stationary fitness equipment for renewable energy production
An energy-efficient health and well-being sensing service for buildings
Toothpastes tabs with zero waste and easy to use to help people change their habits in a fun way
Solar catamaran for the common motor boats activity
A thermal solar cooking system for institutional cooking within schools and hospitals
An efficient hydrogen power plant for desalination, brine concentration, industrial wastewater treatment and materials recovery
High-end fibre-to-fibre recycling and circular economy for the fashion industry
A patented, eco-friendly, linerfree, repositionable direct-thermal label solution
An ecological alternative to oil based membranes to improve acoustic insulations of buildings
A fully recyclable rear-side film providing long-term protection to solar panels
Turning non-consumable organic waste into clean energy & fertilizer on site
Slab material for architectural facade and interiors
A low-cost submersible platform for tidal sites
An electrotechnology system for clean and efficient treatment of industrial and municipal wastewater
A revolutionary crowd-invest solution for treatments of co2 at the full price of the damage caused
A green casting process with the ability to redesign lighter parts for better efficiency and ev range
Large areas vegetation maintenance using herds of industrial solar robots
A dynamic agrivoltaic solution developed to protect crops and produce renewable energy on the same land.
A new modern dry toilets
A new generation of electric motors, bringing extreme power density and efficiency
A sound-absorbing panel made of textile waste, improving indoor acoustics simply and aesthetically.
Recycled polymer compounds applied to non-structural material in the construction industry
An iot solution for water management reducing overconsumption and waste of water filters
An industrial composite smart wall custom made for each project.
A solution to bicycle theft problem in urban area
A win-win system for urban transportation and last-mile delivery logistics
A digital solution using behavioral pychology to nudge users towards climate-friendly travel habits
A machine to clean and disinfect cups in 5 seconds with just 1cl of water
Guarantees a naturally efficient and healthy building that stands the test of time
Wind-solar integrated hybrid energy for telecom tower industry
Urban deliveries using inland waterways at the same price than trucking
A solar thermal collector capable of converting sunlight into hot water for buildings
A resilient smart water agri-technology for food and water security
Enables anyone in the world to invest in renewable energy on its platform
A modular blast furnace gasification system for commercially scalable waste management
Aims to create new material solutions through mindful use of sea waste resources
A solar thermal concentrator providing heat and steam for industries and district heating
Safe, reliable and scalable energy storage, designed specifically for offshore applications
Seaweed feed supplement for methane reduction in livestock products
Written by Thomas Weeks on July 8, 2020
News - March 22, 2021
Written by Expert: Paulina Janiak - 5 min read
World Water Day: Challenges and Solutions for Water Scarcity
Opinion - June 1, 2020
Written by Bertrand Piccard - 3 min read
Business Leaders Commit to a Clean Economic Recovery