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  1. Global challenges
  2. Climate change

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.

Do you share our vision? Talk to Caroline Ashley, our Global Director of System Change Programmes or see our work in climate change below:

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

<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

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: 27th April, 2022

Author: Ulrike Stein

Driving Co-benefits for Climate and Health

Driving Co-benefits for Climate and Health

People can’t thrive on a dying planet. Explore how the private sector can accelerate progress on climate change and public health by taking a systems lens, and developing strategies that can deliver co-benefits for both. Read more

Published: 15th September, 2021

Updated: 19th October, 2021

Author: Ulrike Stein

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: 5th October, 2020

Author: Lucinda Thurmer

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: 28th June, 2022

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

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  • Trading in the currency of hope as we work to create a just and regenerative future

    Trading in the currency of hope as we work to create a just and regenerative future

    At what is a critical moment for the sustainability movement, Forum for the Future’s flagship Future of Sustainability campaign shed light on what the past can teach us about our future. These insights formed the basis of our first US in-person event in more than two years. Here, Forum’s Managing Director – Americas, Sandra Seru, shares her reflections from an evening spent trading hope.

  • Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems Summit

    Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems Summit

    The Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems Summit brings food and beverage brands, ingredients suppliers, food producers, supply chain monitoring platforms, AgTech companies, and consultants together to tackle the challenges and identify the opportunities in harnessing the full potential of regenerative agriculture practices in the food industry.

  • Growing our Future UK

    Growing our Future UK

    Working together to accelerate the transition to regenerative food and agriculture in the UK

  • Case study: How Cotton 2040 is shaping a sustainable and fair global cotton industry

    Case study: How Cotton 2040 is shaping a sustainable and fair global cotton industry

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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.

  • Reinventing the way the world works.

    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.

  • Jobs

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

  • 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.

  • Become a system change agent

    Become a system change agent

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

  • 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.

  • Growing our Future USA

    Growing our Future USA

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

  • Trailblazing sustainability strategies

    Trailblazing sustainability strategies

    Leadership in the 2020s is about your organisation’s ability to positively influence its operating context. We help you to understand the opportunities, and then how to unlock them.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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