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Forum for the Future is a leading global sustainability non-profit. Established in 1996, we’ve been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society for over two decades to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future. We believe the world is facing unprecedented challenges because our fundamental systems are broken. 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.

  • Press release: For the RE sector to lead responsibly, it must address land use, circularity and financing
  • New report: Investigating opportunities to reduce microfibre pollution from the fashion industry
  • Press release: Forum for the Future makes new international leadership appointments
  • Press release: Fairness, transition cost-sharing and recalibration of value-sharing headline findings of 2023 Oxford Farming Conference report
  • Press release: ESMC, US Cotton Trust Protocol, Manulife Investment Management, and Forum for the Future launch project for southern cotton farmers to participate in ecosystem services markets
  • Press release: New Report outlines conditions for success for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Press release: Latest guidance for the private sector on how to simultaneously tackle escalating climate and health crises
  • Press release: As social and climate crises intensify, the sustainability movement and others must move beyond ‘short-term and piecemeal fixes’ to deliver wholescale systems change
  • Press release: New Coalition formed to mobilise private sector on climate and health 
  • Press release: Calls for responsible renewable energy system in India by consortium of key industry leaders
  • Press release: Looking beyond net zero: new report challenges businesses to adopt ‘just and regenerative’ approaches capable of tackling critical global challenges 
  • Press release: New report urges business to tackle climate and health crises simultaneously with integrated net zero strategies 
  • Press release: Half of all cotton growing regions face severe climate risks by 2040 if carbon emissions continue to soar
  • Press release: Forum for the Future appoints Rita Clifton CBE as Chair of the Board of Trustees
  • From System Shock to System Change – Time to Transform The Future of Sustainability report press release
  • Our anti-racism position statement 'Anti-Racism: doing more and being better'
  • CEO note on COVID-19 A note from our Chief Executive, Sally Uren, on the unfolding COVID-19 crisis

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How do I start regenerative agriculture?

Transforming to regenerative agriculture is a systemic challenge. We created a seven-point-roadmap which identifies key actions that players across the supply chain must take to drive change in the industry.

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This seven-point-roadmap which identifies the key actions that players across the agriculture supply chain – including farmers, businesses with agricultural supply chains, agribusinesses, non-profits, investors and financial services, research institutions, philanthropists and policy makers – must variably take to drive change and transform the industry to become regenerative:

  1. Create financial mechanisms and market structures that support regenerative outcomes
  2. Empower farmers to build coalitions at the grassroots level
  3. Shape policy to build a resilient agricultural economy
  4. Build and demonstrate the business case for regenerative practices
  5. Engage with consumers to increase demand for regenerative products
  6. Prioritize nutritional benefits to enable healthy diets
  7. Mobilize landowners to enable regenerative practices to mainstream.

All are underpinned by cross-sector and pre-competitive collaboration. The challenge is too great for any one organisation to tackle alone; working together to address systemic barriers, we just might.

Find out more about regenerative agriculture.

Published: 24th February, 2021

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Published: 28th September, 2018

Updated: 11th October, 2018

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What is futures?

Futures, also known as strategic foresight and futurology, is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the likelihood of trends and events in the future, and of possible scenarios.

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Futures, also known as strategic foresight and futurology, is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the likelihood of trends and events in the future, and of possible scenarios. We use futures to help organisations grapple with uncertainty and change.

By revealing the complex interplay of dynamic trends around us, and identifying risks, opportunities and powerful innovations, our futures work helps organisations to discover where to act for long-term success.

Read about our futures projects here.

Published: 28th September, 2018

Updated: 24th February, 2021

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What is regenerative agriculture?

Regenerative agriculture is one that puts back more into the environment and society than it takes out.

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Regenerative agriculture is an approach to farming that puts back more into the environment and society than it takes out. As part of creating an agricultural system that is fit for the future, regenerative agriculture practices have the potential to create more resilient supply chains, restore soil health and enable farmers and businesses to thrive. 

Read more about regenerative agriculture.

Published: 24th February, 2021

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What is sustainability?

Sustainability is a dynamic process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways that simultaneously protect and enhance the Earth’s life support system.

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Sustainability is a dynamic process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways that simultaneously protect and enhance the Earth’s life support system.

Sustainable development means being able to fulfil the needs of those living today without compromising the ability of future generations to fulfil their own needs.

Find out more about sustainability and system change.

Published: 27th September, 2018

Updated: 24th February, 2021

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What is systems change?

Systems change is an approach we take to creating the big shift to a sustainable future. 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.

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A system is a configuration of parts connected by a web of relationships towards a purpose. It can be an ecosystem, such as the marine environment, the food system or socially created systems such as education and health. Systems can be small, such as organisations, or large, such as the whole economy.

A systems approach shifts the focus from individual parts to how the parts are organised, recognising that interactions of the parts are not static and constant but dynamic and fluid.

Systemic change is where relationships between different aspects of the system have changed towards new outcomes and goals. And it’s driven by transformational, not incremental change.

Find out more about system change and why we think it’s so important.

Explore The School of System Change. 

Published: 28th September, 2018

Updated: 11th January, 2023

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