Our events

Below is a list of events designed to help our partners make sense of the change we are all experiencing, provide them with tools, insights and systemic approaches to help navigate the uncertainty of the status quo and the complexity of the decade ahead, and discover where to act for long-term success in the systems they are operating in.

We’re also working individually with partners and networks on supporting them in the transitional phase and helping them apply futures and systems approaches in designing post-Covid strategies, and defining the role they have to play their part in rebuilding global systems in a way that is sustainable, fair, and resilient.

Future of Sustainability report launch: from System Shock to System Change

Americas/Europe time zone, 15 October 2020 Read more

Future of Sustainability report launch: from System Shock to System Change

Europe/Asia time zone, 14 October 2020 Read more

Stories of Change 2: Iceberg Model - The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement

Join us on 13 October 2020 for the second in a new three-part webinar series called 'Stories of Change'. This session discusses the Iceberg Model to explore blindspots and challenge mental models underneath the rise of the Civil Rights Movement. Read more

Stories of Change 3: Regenerative Model - Water Resilience in Mexico City

Join us on 27 October 2020 for the last in a new three-part webinar series called 'Stories of Change'. This session explains the Regenerative Model through the story of water management in Mexico City and shifting from away from extraction. Read more

Stories of Change NZ 2: Iceberg Model - Rise of the Civil Rights Movement

For our colleagues and partners in New Zealand. Join us on 1 October 2020 for the second in a new three-part webinar series called 'Stories of Change'. This session discusses the Iceberg Model to explore blindspots and challenge mental models underneath the rise of the Civil Rights Movement. Read more

Stories of Change NZ 3: Regenerative Model -Water Resilience in Mexico City

For our colleagues and partners in New Zealand. Join us on 15 October 2020 for the last in a new three-part webinar series called 'Stories of Change'. This session explains the Regenerative Model through the story of water management in Mexico City and shifting from away from extraction. Read more

Webinar: Making the Leap to Circular Fashion

Join our webinar on September 30 exploring our new report, titled “Making the leap to circular fashion”, which shines a light on the huge untapped potential of fashion manufacturers to contribute to this circular transformation. Read more

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Future of Sustainability: Launch Events

The Future of Sustainability report will launch on 14 October, marked by two immersive events.

Cotton 2040: aligning sustainability impact metrics

As part of Cotton 2040, we are working with the major sustainable cotton standards, programmes and codes on greater alignment of sustainable cotton impact metrics. Creating more credible, consistent and comparable data will help brands and retailers to more confidently track the impact of their sustainable cotton sourcing decisions.

Quadratic voting captures how strongly voters feel about a policy or issue

An alternative voting mechanism aims to capture how strongly members of the public feel about a particular policy or topic, beyond simple approval or rejection.

Plans for a “self-reliant India” sacrifice ancient forest

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced plans to make India more self-reliant as part of its post-COVID-19 recovery plans, including the auction of 40 new coalfields of which 80% cover land home to ancient forests and indigenous tribes.

The Five Capitals - a framework for sustainability

The Five Capitals Model provides a basis for understanding sustainability in terms of the economic concept of wealth creation or ‘capital’. Any organisation will use five types of capital to deliver its products or services. A sustainable organisation will maintain and where possible enhance these stocks of capital assets, rather than deplete or degrade them.

Reinventing the way the world works.

Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability non-profit. We specialise in addressing critical global challenges by catalysing change in key systems, from food to apparel, energy to shipping. We do this by convening transformational collaborations to drive change, by partnering with organisations to help them lead by example, and by building a global community of pioneers and change makers.

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Sustainability and system change

Climate change, malnutrition, inequality, poverty, ecological degradation. The global challenges we face are so urgent and tricky that we need a solution to match their scale and complexity. This is where system change comes in. We use systems thinking to understand the web of interrelations that create complex problems, anticipate unintended consequences, and identify how and where to take action to meet the SDG goals.

What is a sustainable business model?

What is a sustainable business model? The term signals the need to go beyond innovating products or services, and change the fundamentals of how a business makes money.

Transformational strategies

Pioneering organisations create systemic impacts beyond their own boundaries. We help them understand the opportunities, and how to unlock them.

Protein Challenge 2040

The Protein Challenge 2040 is the first global coalition of its kind, aiming to tackle the question: How do we provide up to 10 billion people with enough protein in a way that is healthy, affordable and good for the planet?

Fashion Futures 2025

Working with Levi Strauss and Co using futures techniques to develop global scenarios for a sustainable fashion industry.

Net Positive

We reinvent strategies for a 1.5°C world. Our Net Positive approach helps business put back more into society and environment than it takes out. Unilever’s pioneering commitment to eliminate fossil fuels from its operations and directly support the generation of more renewable energy than they consume was driven behind the scenes by Forum.

Become a system change agent

Learn more about upcoming programmes and express your interest.