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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 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.

We're tracking this challenge live on the Futures Centre, head over to see what #signalsofchange we're spotting.

The High Level Panel on BECCS Done Well: Conditions for Success

The High Level Panel on BECCS Done Well: Conditions for Success

Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, has been invited by Will Gardiner, the CEO of Drax Group, to convene a High Level Panel of independent experts to conduct an inquiry into Bioenergy, Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). Read more

Published: 26th September, 2022

Updated: 6th July, 2023

Author: Ulrike Stein

American Climate Futures

American Climate Futures

A national initiative to ensure the needs and voices of those most impacted by climate change in the US are at the forefront of goal-setting, planning, and solutions development — while also challenging, and accelerating the process of addressing, the systemic inequalities that got us here in the first place. Read more

Published: 15th September, 2022

Updated: 4th September, 2023

Author: Ulrike Stein

Climate and Health Coalition

Climate and Health Coalition

The climate crisis is also a health crisis and requires systemic, interlinked action by the private sector, governments and civil society. Explore how the private sector can accelerate the integrated transformation of health and climate systems, delivering benefits for both people and planet. Read more

Published: 28th July, 2022

Updated: 27th April, 2023

Author: Ulrike Stein

A Compass for Just and Regenerative Business

A Compass for Just and Regenerative Business

In partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Forum sets out a working definition of what it means for a business to be ‘just and regenerative’ and provides practical guidance on how to get there. The report, ‘A Compass for Just and Regenerative Business’, launched in November 2021, and provides a ‘Business Transformation Compass’ to support you in navigating change - and putting theory into practice. Read more

Published: 15th November, 2021

Updated: 22nd February, 2023

Author: Ulrike Stein

Responsible Energy Initiative

Responsible Energy Initiative

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

Published: 25th March, 2021

Updated: 8th September, 2023

Author: Lucinda Thurmer

The Local Just Transition Challenge

The Local Just Transition Challenge

Working with two communities to demonstrate how the long-term benefits of the transition to a net-zero economy can be felt by everyone. Read more

Published: 15th March, 2021

Updated: 4th October, 2021

Author: Maria Powazka

Indian Civil Society Future Trajectories for Climate Action

Indian Civil Society Future Trajectories for Climate Action

Bringing together climate mitigation-focused civil society organisations in India, to build resilience and increase collective impact through a participatory programme of futures and systems thinking. Read more

Published: 22nd December, 2020

Updated: 28th September, 2021

Author: Ulrike Stein

PowerPaired

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

Published: 9th October, 2019

Updated: 22nd February, 2023

Author: Lucinda Thurmer

<2°C Futures

<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

Published: 14th December, 2018

Updated: 11th February, 2021

Author: Madeleine Wild

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    Climate Week confirms there is still time to transform, but it will take courage

    As the dust settles on New York’s latest Climate Week, Forum for the Future’s Chief Executive, Dr Sally Uren, draws on Forum’s Future of Sustainability: Courage to Transform report to relate what she saw and heard to the different possible futures that might lie ahead.

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    Annual Report and Financial Statements 2022

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  • The Future of Sustainability: Courage to Transform

    The Future of Sustainability: Courage to Transform

    In a bid to enable leaders and change-makers to remain ambitious and focused on transformation, Forum for the Future’s latest Future of Sustainability report, Courage to Transform, provides a new analysis of how businesses are responding to today’s crises.

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  • The Five Capitals - a framework for sustainability

    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.

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

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    For a just and regenerative future

    Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability non-profit running out of offices in the UK, US, India and Singapore.

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    Working together to accelerate the transition to a just and regenerative agriculture system in the United States.

  • Sustainability and system change

    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?

    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.

  • Become a system change agent

    Become a system change agent

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

  • Transport or Mobility: What’s the difference and why does it matter?

    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

    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.

  • Cotton 2040

    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.

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