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At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is radically and irrevocably changing the world, we are working with our partners from across all sectors to make sense of the noise and to understand how, together, we can navigate an overwhelming environment while also supporting the development of new business models, new ways of organising and new narratives and visions that will help us emerge into a more sustainable future.

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This page is a dedicated Forum for the Future content hub for all articles, analysis, tools, insights and systemic approaches related to COVID-19.

Building the future of food during crisis
An analysis of how COVID-19 has exposed the strengths, as well as the fragilities and weaknesses in the food system, and how people and organisations operating in the food system are starting to respond to this immense challenge. From Lesley Mitchell, Associate Director of Sustainable Nutrition and Roberta Iley, Principal Change Designer.
Aviation: no going back
Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future, examines the COVID-19 shock to the aviation industry, and what that means not just for a sustainable future for airlines, but their survival.
COVID-19 response: An open letter to global governments
Dr Sally Uren pens an open letter to governments meeting w/c 27/04 to explore how to organise a green economic recovery, outlining a wish list of sustainability considerations that must be central to coronavirus recovery plans.
How can we emerge from the crisis into a more resilient, sustainable future?
An outline of Forum's programmatic approach in response to COVID-19, including an overview of upcoming events.
Coronavirus Response: The green economy has regeneration at its core
Green businesses can lead the recovery and also equip others to create a more sustainable future, argues Forum for the Future's Hannah Pathak (article originally published on BusinessGreen.com).
From system shock to systems change: Why we need to transform commodity value chains (and what this means for cotton)
A reflection piece on supply chains from Charlene Collison, Associate Director, Sustainable Value Chains and Livelihoods
COVID-19: a dress rehearsal for the climate emergency?
Sally Uren, Chief Executive, examines how the novel COVID-19 virus could help us prepare for necessary change and the likely disruptions in the next decade, as we urgently transform entire systems to achieve carbon neutrality.
Turning up for work in post-COVID times
The COVID-19 pandemic is a call for us to work together in new ways. This articles looks at how Forum is changing and what is needed to thrive in uncertainty.
COVID-19: Building resilience for a changing world
A note from our Chief Executive, Sally Uren, on the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and our response.

We are currently organising a series 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.

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You can view recordings from our recent webinars on our YouTube channel

This Diary, from our staff and from our partners, examines the day-to-day experience of living in a COVID-19 discontinuity to support others in navigating this moment of massive change. And is intended to give us insight into the personal aspect of living the complexity of a shifting paradigm and help us learn, what it takes, and what it doesn’t, to achieve a more regenerative future. Contributions encouraged at [email protected]

17 April 2020: Why a diary of discontinuity? - Anna Warrington, Director, Forum India
30 April 2020: Economy, inequality and my life as a new parent during COVID-19 - Rodrigo Bautista, Principal Change Designer, Forum Americas
7 May 2020: Our lives have changed. Will our mindsets change too? - Zoe Le Grand, Principal Partnership Manager, Forum UK
14 May 2020: The world that disappeared - Lucinda Thurmer, Content and Digital Communications Executive, Forum UK

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Aviation: no going back

Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future, examines the COVID-19 shock to the aviation industry, and what that means not just for a sustainable future for airlines, but their survival.
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From short term behaviour change to longer term lifestyle change?

We all need spaces to stop and stop, share, listen, and reflect on what is unfolding. Join us on 28 May.

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.