Worldview Impact is a Social Enterprise launched in cooperation with LSESU Entrepreneurs at the London School of Economics and Political Science and it was incorporated in England and Wales as a company limited by shares under the Companies Acts (Reg no. 6353759) on 28th August 2007.
The vision of Worldview Impact is to create a Sustainable Business for a Sustainable Future. By making your green investments grow, in projects that are mitigating climate change at the grassroots level, we will see sustainable livelihoods created for the poor and poverty reduced during the life cycle of our projects.
It has a three-fold mission:
Fighting climate change by regenerating degraded life supporting ecosystems and restoring damaged biodiversity.
Enabling green economic growth through the creation of market linkages for trading high value organic agro commodities.
Supporting social development for local communities through education, training and capacity building initiatives.
The idea behind the company's creation goes back to the time when Dr. Bremley Lyngdoh first met Dr. Arne Fjortoft, Secretary General of Worldview International Foundation (WIF) at a United Nations ESCAP conference in Bangkok in 1999. It was there that Bremley was invited to serve on the Executive Committee of the Board of WIF. They discussed a plan to expand and sustain the communication and development work of WIF by creating a social enterprise. Bremley was later recognized and appointed by the Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the first official Youth Representative representing his country India as part of the government’s national delegation to the historic United Nations Millennium Summit that brought together 189 heads of states and governments to agree on the Millennium Development Goals. His official statement to the Millennium Assembly on the 28th September 2000 called on world leaders and their governments to protect the environment by creating sustainable livelihoods for young people in developing countries.
Bremley then undertook some initial research on the impact of climate change on the livelihoods of the poor while doing his Master of International Affairs in Energy & Environmental Policy Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York in 2001. He then represented WIF at the Youth Employment Summit that was held in 2002 in Alexandria where he urged policy-makers to give more support to the development of sustainable livelihoods. Later in 2004 after a few consultations with Arne, he developed the business concept which was then incubated at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he was doing his Ph.D. in Sustainable Development Studies. Bremley then met with Arne in Oslo in April 2007 at a special celebration in the Norwegian Parliament, honouring Arne's international development work on his 70th birthday. They both invited some of their colleagues to join as advisors and directors, and later Bremley incorporated Worldview Impact as a company limited by shares under the Companies Acts (Reg no. 6353759) in England and Wales on 28th August 2007.
The Board of Directors of Worldview Impact manage the company's affairs in accordance with its Articles of Association and the Law in the United Kingdom. They meet twice a year in the company's headquarters in London to set the policy for the company and approve new projects globally.
The Worldview Impact subsidiary and affiliate companies are registered at the country level in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. These companies report directly to the CEO of the parent company at the headquarters in London.
Worldview Impact Foundation is the company's non-profit entity which was incorporated in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee on 19th June 2008 under the Companies Acts (Reg no. 6624593)
Making an impact at the grassroots to create positive changes is the vision of Worldview Impact Foundation and it's mission is to:
Promote and support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
Provide capacity building and training for young people in the developing countries for employment generation.
Fight climate change and support initiatives that addresses the public health implications of global warming.
Create awareness and provide support to initiatives that addresses the nexus of poverty and environment.
Provide a forum for social entrepreneurs in the developing world to build market linkages with their peers in the developed world.
