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

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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.