• Sustainable Development Goals – United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals

for 2030

• Antimicrobial resistance – Resistance of microbes to drugs directed against them
• Center for Global Food Issues
• Chicago Council on Global Affairs – Foreign affairs think tank in Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Climate change – Current rise in Earth's average temperature and its effects
• Cybersecurity – Protection of computer systems from information disclosure, theft or damagePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Developing country – Nation with a lower living standard relative to more developed countries
• Earth Economics – U.S. non-profit organization
• Earth system science – Scientific study of the Earth's spheres and their natural integrated systems
• Ecological footprint – Individual's or a group's human demand on nature
• Ecological collapse – Ecological communities abruptly losing biodiversity, often irreversiblyPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Ecosystem collapse – Ecological communities abruptly losing biodiversity, often irreversibly
• Effective altruism – Philosophical and social movement
• Energy crisis – Low availability of energy resources
• Environmental social science
• Financial crisis – Situation in which financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value
• Global catastrophic risk – Potentially harmful worldwide events
• Global Challenges Foundation – Swedish non-profit organization
• Global change – planetary-scale changes in the Earth systemPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Global governance – Movement towards political cooperation among transnational actors
• Global health – Health of populations in a global context
• Global justice – Issue in political philosophy
• Global Rights – Human rights capacity-building NGO
• Global warming controversy – List of debates over global warmingPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Human impact on the environment – Impact of human life on Earth and environment
• Human security – People-centric approach to national security
• Intergovernmental organization – Organization established by treaty between governmentsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• List of United Nations peacekeeping missions
• Liu Institute for Global Issues – Esearch organization at the University of British Columbia
• Mass surveillance – Intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population
• Ozone depletion and climate change
• Pandemic – Widespread, often global, epidemic of severe infectious disease
• Peak oil – Point in time when the maximum rate of petroleum extraction is reached
• Social justice – Concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society
• Species extinction – Termination of a taxon by the death of its last memberPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Washington consensus – Economic policies for developing nationsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Wicked problem – Problem that is difficult or impossible to solve
• World Community Grid – BOINC based volunteer computing project to aid scientific research
• WorldRiskReport – Annual cooperation report on global disaster risks
• World-systems theory – Approach emphasizing the world-system as the primary unit of social analysis
• World War – War involving major global statesPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Crime – Illegal behavior defined by existing criminal law