Reinventing the way the world works.

Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability non-profit.

For over 20 years we’ve been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future.

Climate change, poverty, malnutrition, civil unrest: the world today is facing complex 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.

Together we can reinvent the way the world works.

Transformational strategies

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Yamini Srivastava

Senior Strategist
Signal of change / WHO calls Coronavirus the first massive ‘infodemic’

The World Health Organization warned on 2 February that the 2019-nCoV outbreak and response has been accompanied by a massive ‘infodemic’, defined as "an over-abundance of information – some accurate and some not – that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it”. What can we learn from the epidemic to strike a better balance between emergency public health warnings and the need to protect and strengthen social cohesion in times of crisis?
Signal of change / Alibaba makes RNB 20 billion available in loans to Chinese companies hit by coronavirus

MYBank, part of the Alibaba Group Holdings affiliate Ant Financial, has responded to the COVID-19 outbreak by announcing RNB 20 billion in loans to Chinese companies, of which 50% is ring fenced for firms in Hubei province, where the virus originated. The move prompts the question, what does it mean to be a responsible business in a time of uncertainty and volatility?
Signal of change / Kickstarter employees vote to form a union

In a first for the technology industry, Kickstarter’s full-time employees have voted under the National Labor Relations Board to form a union. The workers are calling for a healthier power structure enabling greater participation in critical decisions, and changes in how the company addresses gender discrimination and sexual harassment. The move follows 18 months of internal organising which saw two employees fired and two others leave, reporting an intimidating working environment.

The Five Capitals

There are five types of sustainable capital from where we derive the goods and services we need to improve the quality of our lives.
Reinventing the way the world works.

We specialise in addressing critical global challenges by catalysing change in key systems, from food to apparel, energy to shipping.
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Sustainability and system change
Characteristics of a sustainable business model

Over the last year a new term has been rising up – the sustainable business model. So far it has been used to signal the need to go beyond innovating products or services, and change the fundamentals of how a business makes money. At Forum for the Future we are trying to work through the detail of what makes a sustainable business model so more and more companies can act.
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 helping 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

Applications are now open for Basecamp #9 Americas, kicking off in early May 2020 in the US. Apply now!