In our world today...

> 0

species are threatened
with extinction

> 0

million people live
in extreme poverty

> 0

billion tones of CO2
are emitted every year

out of 9 “planetary boundaries” are transgressed

Humanity's window of opportunity to amend its actions is rapidly closing

Our actions today will have long-lasting effects!

We must be one...

True socio-environmental sustainability requires a multidimensional approach. We work to support the achievement of the SDGs laid out in the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda, within a safe operating space for humanity.

Addressing the challenges facing humanity requires coordinated efforts across all sectors of society and countries—a truly multi-sectoral, multi-organizational, and multinational endeavor. We support the work of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the Andean Region—SDSN Andes.

Real change requires combining forward-looking vision with immediate action. We promote the implementation of ambitious long-term plans with clear short-term milestones.

Effective and impactful action requires aligning local solutions to global efforts, and vice versa. We focus on identifying how global issues impact local realities and how local dynamics reflect on global trends.

The scale of the task ahead demands great creativity, innovation, and problem-solving capacity. We connect people's ideas and knowledge, fostering collaborative creation.

Current and future socio-economic disruptions require great adaptability and resilience without straying from a sustainable path. We foster multigenerational initiatives that bring together experience, creativity, knowledge, and flexibility.

Building a new reality requires a set of solutions that must fit together like building blocks. We implement and support practical, science-based projects that deliver tangible impact. We also promote educational materials that foster systems thinking.

Moving away from business-as-usual calls for a new socio-environmental ethic and an eco-social contract. We facilitate an open dialogue and critical exploration of what is at the heart of true change, while welcoming and sharing diverse perspectives on sustainability.

Featured News & Events

We participated in the 2025 GBA-ASEAN Conference: Trade, Finance and Sustainable Development in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Nov. 2025.

The UNSDSN Sustainable Development Report 2025 is out! See how countries are doing in terms of their SDGs achievements.

We have closed the project: “Biodiversity Conservation in the Binational Mira and Mataje Rivers’ Basins”.

Beyond One’s president met with the South African Ambassador in Berlin and shared a policy brief on the need to address international spillover effects for SDGs progress. Nov. 2024.

We are observers at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Cali, Oct. 21 – Nov. 1, 2024.

Beyond One is chairing a panel on “Threats to Biodiversity from Climate Change and the Energy Transition” at a side event of the UN Biodiversity Conference COP16 in Cali on Oct. 30, 2024.

We are announcing the discovery of a new species of frog in the session “Beyond a Discovery, a Call to Action” at a side event in the UN Biodiversity Conference COP16, in Cali, Oct. 30, 2024.

We are chairing the session “Energy Transitions within Complex Social-Ecological Systems and a Global Economy” at the International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), Sep. 19, 2024.

We are chairing the session “Nexus Analyses for Sustainability Transitions” at the 30th International Input-Output Conference, in Santiago, Jul. 1-5, 2024.

Beyond One’s president is part of the panel “Overcoming Negative Spillover Effects to Advance Sustainable Development” at the Global Solutions Summit, Berlin, May 15-16, 2023.

We are chairing the session “Challenges of Circularity: Considering the energy and material demands & benefits of a circular economy across global supply chains” at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly. Vienna, Apr. 26, 2023.

Beyond One’s president is a panellist at the European Economic and Social Committee’s workshop on “How to Strengthen the EU’s Leadership on the SDGs”, in Brussels, Apr. 4, 2023.

Beyond One hosts the Secretariat of the SDSN Andes, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network chapter for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

We have launched Wiki Mira-Mataje, an open information platform to support biodiversity protection in the binational Mira and Mataje rivers’ basins (Ecuador and Colombia).

Beyond One’s president is among >80 renowned researchers urging the G7 to measure progress beyond GDP.

Beyond One has launched “Reflections”, a collection of articles that brings the voices of important thinkers who help us reflect on the current global crises and what we can learn from them.