• Our Pledge

    We pledge to make the Earth a secure and hospitable home
    for present and future generations.

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  • The global insurance and pension industry is the key to saving the world.

    This is the only source for long term investment in the scale of trillions of dollars. Only they see high enough and far enough.
    – Prof. Yehuda Kahane

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  • The most expensive thing we can do is nothing

    Scientists and economists are beginning to grapple with the serious
    economic and environmental consequences that will occur should
    we fail to reduce global carbon emissions quickly and deeply.

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  • Global GameChangers Impact Lab™

    A proven methodology for companies, organizations and civil societies
    to realign their vision, purpose and impact with the realities of the New Economy
    in order to be eligible for New Economy investments.

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Who We Are

YK Center is a partnership of Subject Matter Experts, Elders and Professionals  that create and incubate innovative initiatives that accelerate the achievement of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

What We Do

We facilitate game changing conversations, seminars and workshops among leaders, management and influencers  and educate about the shift to a 4D orientation.

We align powerful networks with the UN’s Global Goals.

We campaign Prof. Yehuda Kahane’s theory of change and accelerate collaboration among key global players.

We accelerate scalable sustainable development projects through our SDG-Market.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

-Margaret Mead

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  • Big Bold Ideas & Long Term Solutions

    Yehuda Kahane learned during his early childhood in Israel that peace and prosperity are hard won, and that family, opportunity and our time on this planet are rare blessings, not privileges. The story of YK Center, like the story of Yehuda Kahane himself, is one rooted in big bold ideas and finding long-term solutions to impossible problems. Learn more…

  • The Global GameChangers Impact Lab™

    YK Center’s Global GameChangers Impact Lab™ is a transformation-acceleration platform designed to rapidly transform the mechanics of conversations in large-scale public (Governments, municipalities) and private organizations (firms and no-for profit organizations) and prepare them for the new, post- industrial era. It is intended to empower leaders and executives to address large-scale challenges with the energy, focus and urgency necessary to achieve quick alignment and to progress to the implementation of impactful solutions. Each Impact Lab is a safe space for acceleration in which stakeholders may examine their preparation and readiness for a rapidly changing future, so they can work proactively and creatively, not reactively. Learn more…

  • TransFormNation™

    TransFormNation™ is a development accelerator program designed to rapidly transform the mechanics of national conversations such that key stakeholders may address global-scale challenges with the energy, focus and urgency necessary to achieve quick alignment and to progress to the implementation of impactful solutions. Learn more…

The YK Call to Action

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New existential environmental and societal risks threaten the continuation of human society on planet Earth. The capital investment needed to mitigate these risks is enormous, estimated by the UN to be in the trillions of dollars annually. 

“In order to mitigate the environmental and societal risks that arise from the global threat of climate change, humankind — individually, institutionally, nationally and globally — must transform such that we can change these threats into opportunities.

The global insurance and pension industry is the key to saving the world. This is the only source for long term investment in the scale of trillions of dollars. Only they see high enough and far enough.

There is absolutely no limit to human ability. We must unite to reboot humanity.”

    – Prof. Yehuda Kahane

  • Prof. Kahane’s Bio

    Prof. (Emeritus) Yehuda Kahane is a Fellow (and a member of the executive board) of the World Academy of Arts and Science (WAAS). Laureate of the 2011 prestigious Insurance Founders Award, by the International Insurance Society (for his contribution to the theory, practice, and education in risk management and insurance in the world). At that year he was also awarded for his lifetime achievements by the Israeli insurance industry. Click for full bio

Moving from the Billions to the Trillions

Recently, the United Nations revised its forecast for the amounts needed annually to mitigate the environmental risks of climate change to $5-7 Trillion for the next 15 years — that’s around 8-9% of global GDP.  Securing, directing and applying these funds will require global cooperation on a scale never before attempted — a scale several orders of magnitude greater than was required for the Marshall Plan.

But current problem solving modalities are conceived on a scale of millions and billions of dollars, while the challenges we face now require trillion dollar solutions. At YK Center, we believe that global change-makers must immediately pivot from a billion dollar mindset to a trillion dollar mindset — from the “B” to the “T”. 

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