This special workshop was launched in 2012. It is co-organized by the International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development (IKED) and International Entrepreneurship Academy (Intentac) in Nairobi in 2012. It was coordinated by Prof. Thomas Andersson, the Chairman of the Intentac and IKED. The workshop provided a brief overview of Green Entrepreneurship and what it entails especially for the youth in the higher learning institutions. Before start of the workshop, various green entrepreneurship proposals had been handed in by the participants who were assessed, discussed and shaped further in groups using guidelines provided. These were then presented to a mock group of investors (the rest of participants) who critiqued and questioned various aspects of the entrepreneurial ideas in a bid to strengthen them. In the end the workshop generated concrete entrepreneurial ventures for follow. WSCSD will explore with like-minded partners the possibilities of establishing a Green Entrepreneurship/Incubation program to act as a vehicle for cross-regional community–campus partnerships for moving research and technology from the labs to the market through innovation and entrepreneurship

This was conceptualized in 2011 as a build up to the World Student Summit for Sustainability 2012 with the aim of advancing the Green Economy and general Sustainability discourse at the university and individual student levels. The initiative comprises of;

1. Green Talks: To provide for interactive discussions between academia, policy makers and industry on the 11 key sectors for a green economy namely waste, water, transport, energy, agriculture, buildings, fisheries, forestry, tourism, manufacturing and industry. The talks addressed sustainability and the practical aspects for its achievement that students can quickly pick up.
2. Greening Campus Activities: These are focused on the Practical student initiatives aimed at ensuring environmental integrity and sustainability of their campuses. Through various university student group activities, GreeningU seeks to re-orient the thinking of students towards hands-on engagement in retrofitting their campuses into living labs for environmental sustainability.

WSCSD is currently working with UNEP's Environmental Education and Training Unit (EETU), the Greening Kenya Initiative (GKI) and Kenyan Universities in establishing Kenya Green University Network. The aim of the Kenya Green University Network (KGUN) is to develop a functional network of higher education institutions that incorporate environment and sustainability issues in their education, training, campus operations, and student activities.

Organizing and participating in the Student Summit for Sustainability (S3) is one of the most exciting and rewarding global activity of the WSCSD. The S3 provides its members and other participants not only with the opportunity to meet, interact and network with each other, but also to develop and advance joint project initiatives. It involves a process of preparing collaborative activities including selected training and capacity building, presentations on related topics in the area of sustainable development, well directed workshops, poster presentations and excursions. The summit preparations are organized so as to involve multiple Student Communities with the support of local and international organizations, giving them an opportunity to deepen relations with various stakeholders and thus leveraging their outreach and ability to operationalise various important student-driven agendas. Some of the successfully organised Student Summits are:

• S3 2006, by Project 21, Switzerland on “Mind Knowledge and Sustainability”
• S3 2007 , University of Tokyo, Japan, on “Taking Action for Global Sustainability”
• S3 2008, University of Regina, Canada, on “Societies of Tomorrow”
• S3 2009, ETH Zurich, Switzerland was held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the AGS and provided the participants a better understanding of today’s economic and political institutions in relation to sustainable development
• Focus Meeting on ESD Policy 2009, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Student Conference 2010, University of Tokyo, Japan, on "Growing Asian Cities: Structuring Sustainability Problems
• Regional Conference 2011, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, on Understanding Change"
• Regional Summit 2011, Columbia, on "Innovation and Solutions for Climate Change"

In 2012 WSCSD organized its 10th Student Summit for Sustainability in Kenya (www.s3nairobi.org) for the first time in Africa. The summit was organised in partnership with UNEP's Environmental Education and Training Unit, Kenya's Office of the Prime Minister, Greening Kenya Initiative and the University of Nairobi. At the 2012 summit, it was proposed that an upcoming summit should be organised in the Middle East to engage students in the unique sustainability issues around this region and expand WSCSD's network. The proposed 2015 World Students Summit for Sustainability (S3-2015) in Abu Dhabi will be the first global students sustainability conference after the adoption of the Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and hopefully a new climate change agreement. It offers a unique opportunity for the youth to discuss the important challenge of how cities, towns and villages are planned and managed, in order to fulfil their role as drivers of sustainable development, and hence shape the implementation of new global development agenda. The theme of the 2015 Summit ‘Empowering Young Ecocitizens towards Sustainable Urban Development'.

In December 2009, students from the University of Nairobi (Kenya) and University of Regina (Canada) working with the NGO — the ‘Safe Water and LED Lighting Operatives Worldwide (SWALLOW, www.swallowinc.org) launched the “Nyakongo Water and Sanitation project” in a remote village in Nyando district (western Kenya) providing household Biosand Water Filters to HIV/AIDS support group adversely affected by perennial flooding. The program is managed by a spin-off NGO — the ‘Safe Water and LED Lighting Operatives Worldwide (SWALLOW, www.swallowinc.org). So far, the project has provided 124 households with biosand filters for purifying drinking water. The project aims to provide sand filters to 800 households by 2014. One of the community leaders has been trained on the construction of Ventilated Pit Latrines and Ecosan toilets an environmentally friendly form of sanitation that can withstand the flooding which frequently destroys the pit latrines constructed in the village. Upon availability of funds, WSCSD will embark on a project to construct Ecosan Toilets in schools, churches and households within Nyakongo Community.

The WSCSD's Sustainable Village Initiative addresses the different sectoral issues of development through a holistic approach of household and community empowerment through student collaborations and campus outreach programs. For too long, development has been implemented in piecemeal and linear fashion that doesn’t fully appreciate the inter-related nature of diverse societal issues. Moreover, a number of HEI stakeholders had not recognized student associations as authentic actors/partners for sustainable development. Thus, well intended and strategic student organizations like the WSCSD had to invest a lot of time and effort in ‘proof of concept and capacity’ so as to close the gaps between them and the university management, civil society, potential financial partners and student organizations. WSCSD's Sustainable Village Initiative seeks to address the above gaps by providing new opportunities for students to create social ventures for improving exposure to appropriate technologies for the development of healthy and self-supported communities in Africa. The initiative is currently being piloted in Nyakongo Village located in a remote part of Kisumu County, Kenya where the flagship WSCSD's collaborative WASH project is being implemented since 2009. Other projects targeted are use of energy saving cookers and solar lanterns. The WSCSD will mobilize global students’ action in transforming the impoverished Nyakongo village, Kenya into a model Sustainable Village. A masterplan for the development of Nyakongo Sustainability Center has been developed for discussion with partners and resource mobilization. A plot of land has been donated by the community for the development of this project.

The aim of the Adopt-a-River program is to create awareness and an understanding amongst all college students of the need to care for our scarce water resources and to facilitate their participation in the protection and management of these resources in an integrated manner. The initiative ensures that a student environmental association in every university working with WSCSD adopts a river (or an alternative water ecosystem) within or around their university for continuous cleaning and conservation. This will be part of the proposed "yoUNite for Water" campaign being formulated by UNEP's Freshwater Ecosystems Unit to mark the UN Year of Water Corporation.

This a WSCSD imitative launched during the 2013 UN International Day for Biological Diversity to engage universities in conservation of biological diversity. It entails adoption of a nearby forest by each student association in member universities for long term conservation. The initiative supports the establishment of tree nurseries in each university to supply the seedlings needed for campus forestation activities as well as replanting the adopted forests. Two tree nurseries have been so far established at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and Moi University (Kenya).