The World Future Council (WFC) works to pass on a healthy and sustainable planet with just and peaceful societies to our children and grandchildren. To achieve this, we focus on identifying, developing, highlighting and spreading effective, future-just policies for current challenges humanity is facing and promote their implementation worldwide. The Council consists of 50 eminent global change-makers from governments, parliaments, civil societies, academia, the arts and the business world. They identify urgent themes and determine the agenda for our work.
Our headquarters are based in Hamburg. With our Council members, we are represented on all five continents. In close collaboration with international organisations, experts, and parliamentarian networks, we identify sustainable and future-just laws and measures worldwide. We communicate directly to policy makers, and the results of our work feed into our educational work, supporting decision makers in implementing good policies.
The challenges of our time are very complex, so we use a holistic approach to our thinking and work. Currently we are focused on the following working areas:
- The Rights of Children and Youth
- Climate and Energy
- Sustainable Ecosystems and Livelihoods[1]
- Peace and Disarmament
Our annual Future Policy Award, the ‘Oscar on best policies’, celebrates policies that create better living conditions for current and future generations-
Jakob von Uexkull, the Founder of the Alternative Nobel Prize, launched the World Future Council in 2007. The WFC is politically independent and operates as a charitable foundation under German law. Our work would not be possible without the continuous financial support from private donors and institutional partnerships.