a financing gap of up to $100 trillion as a result of COVID-19 and other developments. The Academy’s Tao of Finance project was initiated in 2015 to examine the feasibility of creating direct central bank complementary currencies for investment in the SDGs. Its findings have been 2021 published as a Report to the World Academy entitled Financing our Future by Stefan Brunnhuber, project leader and WAAS Trustee. The Integral Investing Project addresses investment in businesses as a dimension of an integral approach to overall business management, with special focus on achieving the SDGs within the planetary boundaries. Integral Investing: From Profit to Prosperity was published in 2020 as a report to WAAS by WAAS Fellow Mariana Bozesan based on decades of research as an entrepreneur-investor and interviews with more than 20 leading financial experts. A fourth offshoot project is focused on the feasibility of financing the Sustainable Development Goals through the insurance and pension fund system by special public bonds with subsidized yields which reflect the true value and overall return to society of the positive and negative externalities associated with investments in the SDGs. The project is headed by Yehuda Kahane, founder of the YK Center in Israel and Moshe Bareket, Director General of the Israeli Capital Market Insurance & Savings Authority (CMISA)., WAAS Fellows participated in numerous events at COP27 Egypt, including a panel on DATE organized by the UNFCCC’s Global Innovation Hub and YK Center at the Global Financial Solutions Summit. Panelists included Massamba Thioye of UNFCCC, Yehuda Kahane, Ketan Patel, Stefan Brunnhuber, Phoebe Koundouri, Jeffrey Sachs, Moshe Bareket and YKC co-founder Tal Ronen, presenting innovative financial solutions for addressing climate change and other essential investments in the Sustainable Development Goals. Science, Society and Sustainability WAAS is exploring the impact of science and technology on society and human knowledge. A science and technology project focuses on the social consequences and implications of knowledge and science policy-making, a central tenant on which the academy was originally founded. In 2015, WAAS hosted an international conference at CERN in Geneva in collaboration with the UN Office at Geneva, to explore the impact of science and technology across different sectors and the responsibility of science in social outcomes. Inspired by the successful example of CERN and the Sesame project (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) in the Middle East on the model of “Science for peace”, the