Who we work with

Forum partners with trailblazing businesses, foundations and civil society organisations that share our purpose of accelerating the shift to a sustainable future. Together we are tackling the climate crisis, transforming food systems and ensuring the supply chains we rely on for goods and services are more resilient and equitable.

We work with our partners to help them develop strategies to change themselves and the systems around them, and to convene global cross-sectoral collaborations around key issues. We also equip organisations and individuals with the skills needed to take meaningful action.

Together, we are reinventing the way the way the world works.

Our friends, partners and funders

We were the first NGO set up to work alongside, rather than against, business, and to help business do better by being better. 20 years on and we work with some of the world's most pioneering businesses, helping them deliver and refine the case for putting sustainability at the heart of their corporate strategies and relationships. Read more

People’s Postcode Lottery

Forum and the People’s Postcode Lottery share a vision of a future where we live within planetary boundaries. Read more

Walmart Foundation

Working together to build uptake of regenerative agriculture in the United States. Read more

Latest

Cole Dittmar

Team Assistant, UK/ EU
Principal Strategist

Are you passionate about transforming business for sustainability? Forum for the Future is looking for a Principal Strategist based in the UK to bring their expertise to shaping and driving how Forum contributes to transforming business for systemic change in the shift towards a just and regenerative world.
Ambition, adaptation and altered mindsets: what does COP26 need to deliver?

With COP26 fast approaching, Forum’s Dhaval Negandhi, Associate Director for Climate, and Hannah Pathak, Director - Forum UK/Europe, call out five key elements the Climate Summit must address if we are to achieve the deep transformation needed to meet the Paris Agreement and deliver a just and regenerative future.
Applying regenerative practice to systems beyond place — some thoughts

Putting living systems back in the equation isn’t easy work, but it is possible, and deeply rewarding. Where might we start? In this blog, Laura Winn, Head of School of System Change, offers three sets of practices that can support a regenerative outlook, even when working with systems that seem disconnected with place.

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.
Jobs

We are a growing organisation and we are regularly on the look out for new recruits to join our teams around the world.
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.
Become a system change agent

Learn more about upcoming system change programmes and express your interest.
What is 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.
Trailblazing sustainability strategies

Leadership in the 2020s is about your organisation’s ability to positively influence its operating context. We help you to understand the opportunities, and then how to unlock them.
Cotton 2040

Cotton 2040 aims to create a resilient cotton industry in an increasingly climate-disrupted world by bringing together stakeholders across the value chain.
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?
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.