School of System Change

We know that growing a global community of change agents is our best chance to accelerate a transition to a sustainable future. Want to know more?

Investors in Change Modules

The School of System Change alongside its co-initiating partners launched Investors in Change—a three modular learning journey about systems change for funders from philanthropy, impact investing, and public sector. Investors in Change started in 2021, running three modules from March to October 2021. Past modules accommodated participants from US East Coast, UK/Europe, and some parts of Latin America and Africa.

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Climate and Health Coalition Food Cluster: Enabling Private Sector Action and Collaboration Around Climate, Health and Food

Britvic, SIG and Waitrose join the Climate and Health Coalition's food cluster to work on enabling and accelerating the transformation of our food and agricultural systems towards outcomes that deliver health benefits for both people and planet.
Beyond Growth: Center for Redefining Business Models

Building on initial grant-funded work, and three decades of business engagement, through convenings and programmes, BSR and Forum for the Future are looking to join forces, and collaborate with other key stakeholders in the sustainable business ecosystem, to shape a future-oriented economy, by accelerating implementation of new business models that generate value for all and ways of living that are resource efficient, aspirational and equitable. 
Powerful Futures: Practitioner Insights on the Just Transition to Renewable Energy

Powerful Futures: Practitioner Insights on the Just Transition to Renewable Energy is a guide by practitioners for practitioners who are committed to ensuring that the global shift to renewable energy is equitable and inclusive.
Policy as a Route to Cleaner Air: Why a Systemic, Cross-Sector Approach Matters

This report – commissioned by the Clean Air Fund and produced by Forum for the Future in partnership with iovoli pharmaceutical consulting - calls for more integrated environmental and health policy mechanisms that prevent and reduce outdoor air polluting emissions.

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.
Jobs

We are a growing organisation and we are regularly on the look out for new recruits to join our teams around the world.
For a just and regenerative future

Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability organisation running out of offices in the UK, US, India and Singapore.
Growing our Future US

Working together to accelerate the transition to a just and regenerative agriculture system in the United States.
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 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.
Transport or Mobility: What’s the difference and why does it matter?

Recently, the word transportation is being replaced with mobility. Why is this happening? What’s the difference between them? And why should we care about this change?
6 ways Unilever has achieved success through sustainability - and how your business can too

A year ago this week, Unilever launched its Sustainable Living Plan (USLP), one of the most ambitious strategies that a global company has ever embarked on. Pioneering a bold new business model, the company pledged to double in size at the same time as halving its environmental footprint.
Transforming the Purpose of Business

More and more businesses like are setting ambitious targets for positive impact on their operations, value chains and wider operating context. For more than 25 years we have partnered with businesses to navigate this complexity and design impactful solutions that deliver the deeper change that’s needed. Why not get in touch to find out more?
Become a system change agent

Learn more about upcoming system change programmes and express your interest.

School of System Change

Investors in Change Modules

Module offerings

Module 3 - Learning & Impact

Module 2 - Funder Strategies for Systems Change

Module 1 - Funding in a Complex World