Climate Change

Our vision is a decade of bold action to fully decarbonise the global economic system and lock away carbon from the atmosphere by recarbonising our depleted soils and ecosystems. The radical changes this brings are managed so that the benefits come to every community, including those currently dependent on fossil fuel industries. The result is a rapid and just transition to a ‘carbon positive’ economy that limits global warming to 1.5°C and provides to clean energy, mobility and meaningful livelihoods.

What are our goals?

In the next three years we aim to:

Build new narratives about the risks of climate change and the benefits of a rapid and just transition to a ‘carbon positive’ economy.
Scope, create and scale-up solutions that move us rapidly towards our vision across energy, mobility and ecosystems.
Help organisations develop strategies that are aligned with the goal of staying under 1.5°C, and which help to catalyse widespread societal action and system change.

Do you share our vision? Talk to Will Dawson, our Associate Director for Climate Action or see our work in climate change below:

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<2°C Futures

Find out about the <2°C Futures Scenarios, created to help business navigate climate impacts and make more informed decisions. Read more

MOVING US: helping to shape the future of urban mobility

The Transit Center and Forum for the Future are working in partnership to improve public transit in ways that make U.S. cities more just, environmentally sustainable, and economically vibrant. Read more

Net Positive Renewable Energy

Harnessing the power of investors and buyers to ensure the scaling of the RE sector is ecologically safe, rights-respecting, and socially-just Read more

PowerPaired

PowerPaired is a new, free online platform which provides a matchmaking service to bring together community energy groups and the owners of sites with potential for renewable energy generation. Read more

Latest

Webinar: Future of Sustainability 2020 - India/APAC

Join us on 22 July at a webinar dedicated to understanding whether the disruption from COVID-19 has accelerated the transition to a sustainable future, or made it more challenging.

A new dawn for nature-based solutions?

In the sixth of our Corporate Leadership in the Time of Corona series, Dr Sally Uren explores the latest in nature-based solutions (NbS) and the interconnected nature of five key capitals –and calls on business to advocate for greater uptake and investment in these high-impact solutions.

Build Back Fairer - and Healthier

In the fifth of our Corporate Leadership in the Time of Corona series, Jonathon Porritt explores how intricately linked climate change and public health are, and the crucial need for business to play its part in ensuring we strengthen healthcare systems in the bid to ‘build back better’ post COVID-19.

Webinar: Future of Sustainability 2020 - UK/Europe

Join us on 8 July 2020 at a webinar dedicated to understanding how can we harness the radical disruption presented by the COVID-19 crisis to drive a truly sustainable, just and resilient future?

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.

Characteristics of 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

Basecamp#10 starts in September 2020 in the UK.