Agroecology brings multiple benefits to people and the environment. In a region like Southeast Asia with an estimated 100 million smallholder farmers, this could mean saving costs and increasing yields in the long-term. But what are the barriers that prevent agroecology from taking root, and how can the finance sector drive change? Read more
REI Philippines' first report provides a comprehensive look at the Philippines' energy transition, assessing the ecological and social impacts of major renewable energy sources and exploring strategies for their management and mitigation. Read more
The ‘Cotton 2040 Impact Report’ provides the concluding updates from the Cotton 2040 initiative, sharing key findings from three focus areas and four topline recommendations to make cotton a climate resilient, agriculturally regenerative, and socially equitable crop. Read more
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. Read more
FeedBack Nashville is a systems transformation initiative that brings community members together to imagine and build a just and sustainable food future for our city and its residents. Read more
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The Responsible Energy Initiative Philippines consortium argues that not attending to emerging risks in utility-scale renewable energy value chains may likely slow down the just energy transition in the Philippines. Read more
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Climate and Health Coalition's latest toolkit for healthcare businesses to act on the climate and health crisis. Read more
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Right now, people all over the world are taking action to make value chains better for the communities and environment. By bringing people together around a shared challenge, Forum acts as a catalyst for change. We work with companies at all levels, from executives to frontline operations, to help them reassess and redefine their roles in creating positive change. Read more
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Our planetary systems are in crisis. For lasting change, we need to start addressing planetary challenges with integrated solutions. Forum for the Future partnered with Mars and IDH to commission research that explores how companies can integrate both social and environmental agendas. Read more
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More and more businesses are setting ambitious targets. The pivotal question facing many businesses today is the ‘big how’; how can you deliver transformative, purpose-led change in the face of an ever more volatile and uncertain operating context? Read more
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Read our annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December, 2022. Read more
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Komala Ramachandra has been a human rights advocate and lawyer for nearly two decades, promoting transparency, corporate accountability, and access to remedy for individuals and communities around the world. Read more
Under pressure to tackle the huge ecological and social footprint, the textile and apparel industry is introducing various circular innovations to reduce resources, waste and overall impact on the environment. While significant resources are being spent on researching and implementing technological solutions, far less is invested in truly understanding the enabling conditions that enable innovations to scale and achieve their full potential. Read more
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New report from international non-profit Forum for the Future highlights five key shifts businesses should implement to build operational resilience through intensifying social and environmental crises Read more
Shaping the Future of Responsible Recruitment is a 12-month programme led by Forum for the Future that aims to contribute to a systemic eradication of unethical recruitment practices. Read more
The second inquiry as part of the Responsible Energy Initiative (REI), REI Philippines works together with partners towards an ecologically safe, rights-respecting and socially just energy transition. Read more
REI India is the first inquiry launched as part of the Responsible Energy Initiative, a multi-year programme working to ensure renewable energy in Asia achieves its full potential and creates value in a way that is ecologically safe, rights-respecting and socially just. Read more
Deepak Subramanian is a Member of the Management Committee of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), the Indian subsidiary of Unilever, and a publicly listed company in India with a market cap of 70 billion USD. Read more
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Deepa is an impact investor and independent advisor who invests globally and flexibly across the returns continuum. She advises social enterprises, impact investing funds, private foundations, family offices, endowments, and traditional venture capital funds on strategy, structure, individual investments and portfolios, impact, and emerging markets. Read more
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Our report, "Growing our Future: Scaling regenerative agriculture in the UK - Accelerating change through collaboration”, calls for action to revolutionise the UK's food and farming system by promoting regenerative agricultural practices, and offers actionable insights to transform the way we produce and consume food. Read more
Insights and perspectives from Indigenous agriculturalists working at the forefront of regenerative principles. Read more
More and more businesses are setting ambitious targets for positive impact on their operations, value chains and wider operating context. For more than 25 years we have partnered with businesses to navigate this complexity and design impactful solutions that deliver the deeper change that’s needed. Why not get in touch to find out more? Read more
What if equity, justice, and thriving farm communities were incentivized alongside positive environmental outcomes in regenerative agriculture? What if farm communities were centered in the design and measurement of social metrics? Read more
What if we reimagined how regenerative products are sold and bought? How could reconfiguring relationships within a new marketplace model be the ‘secret sauce’ for strengthening regenerative marketplaces? Read more
2023 is the year of the reauthorization of the Farm Bill in the US, which means policy could not be more important. That’s why, as part of the Growing our Future initiative, Forum for the Future has asked: "What if companies and coalitions leveraged their collective resources to advance policy that prioritizes ecosystem health, community well-being, and climate solutions?" Read more
What if businesses and society supported, promoted and remunerated ecologically replenishing and social justice outcomes from our food and fiber industries? What if these financial tools reflected the needs of all producers, subverting power dynamics to drive social equity in historically underserved communities? Read more
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As momentum behind adopting regenerative approaches to farming in the United States gains traction in mainstream agriculture, Forum for the Future speaks with Jerry Jondreau and Katy Bresette of Dynamite Hill Farms. Jerry and Katy reflect on mainstream interpretations of the concept of “regeneration” through a historical, decolonized lens rooted in their culture and heritage. Read more
Forum for the Future has been announced as one of eight finalists for the Curt Bergfors Foundation's Food Planet Prize, for our work on the Protein Challenge Southeast Asia. Read more
What could ambitious leadership and a just and regenerative future for a thriving protein ecosystem look like? Our latest report shares insights from an Action Inquiry on how reshaping business models and value chains can address emerging challenges in the protein innovation landscape. Read more
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More and more businesses like are setting ambitious targets for positive impact on their operations, value chains and wider operating context. For more than 25 years we have partnered with businesses to navigate this complexity and design impactful solutions that deliver the deeper change that’s needed. Why not get in touch to find out more? Read more
Change is possible if businesses step up to help influence, rethink and reshape our economic structures. This includes intellectual property rights, corporate tax regimes, limited liability legal entities, the global financial structure and more. Forum is collaborating with key stakeholders throughout the market ecosystem, such as financial institutions, regulators and civil society organisations, who influence the actions, goals and incentives of businesses. Read more
The true cost of our purchases goes beyond the price tag and can have significant social and environmental consequences. Transforming Consumption aims to engage influencers, media, brands, consumers, and other actors in envisioning and exploring more sustainable ways of consuming and living that are aspirational, affordable, and actionable. Read more
Businesses need to step up if they are to survive today and thrive tomorrow. And this starts with visionary leadership. As a non-profit, we offer a distinctive approach to strategy development - leveraging our role as a trusted and ‘critical’ friend to support businesses in navigating the complex challenges they, society and the planet, face. Read more
As momentum behind adopting regenerative approaches to farming in the United States gains traction, Forum for the Future speaks to Michael Kotutwa Johson, a 253rd-generation farmer and member of the Hopi Nation. Michael reflects on the use of complex ancient traditions in agriculture, the need to challenge assumptions and to recognise that many of the practices, tools and techniques being increasingly utilized are rooted not in something new, but in Indigenous wisdom. Read more
As momentum behind adopting regenerative approaches to farming in the United States gains traction, Forum for the Future speaks with Indigenous agriculturist and Inupiaq leader Spring Alaska Schreiner on her experience, perspectives and rich heritage. Founder of and farmer on Sakari Farms in Tumalo, just West of Bend in the heart of Central Oregon, Spring reflects on her use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge to take care of the land she and so many depend on for their livelihoods and nutrition Read more
As regenerative approaches gain momentum in the United States’ dominant food and agriculture system, there's huge potential to tackle environmental and social challenges. Here, we explore the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and regenerative agriculture to catalyze food system transformation. Read more
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Investors, policy makers, bureaucrats and representatives of India’s growing renewable energy sector assembled in Delhi on 14 Feb 2023 to discuss three key challenges to making the country’s RE sector ecologically safe, rights-respecting and socially just. Read more
Our latest report, Tackling Microfibres at Source: Investigating opportunities to reduce microfibre pollution from the fashion industry through textile design and manufacturing innovation, presents findings from our 21-month long research and investigative process, and shares recommendations for how textile manufacturers, brands and retailers can take active steps to reduce microfibre pollution. Read more
International leading sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future has today announced changes to its senior and executive leadership teams across the UK, U.S., India and Southeast Asia. Read more
The rapid rise of renewable energy (RE) is critical for our transition to a low carbon economy. RE has the potential to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions, expand access to affordable, clean energy for all, create decent jobs and help economies and societies thrive in the long term. However, the rapid scaling of RE in many parts of the world comes with multiple risks, from land and labour rights and livelihood challenges to toxic waste and unsustainable use of raw materials. Read more
Commissioned by Oxford Farming Conference (OFC), this report aims to inform the debate between food system stakeholders and food producers on the UK’s food supply chain and what is needed for a thriving food future. Read more
Learn how Growing our Future USA, a multi-stakeholder collaboration, mobilizes participants to use their influence, expertise and resources to contribute to systemic change. Read more
The Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC), US Cotton Trust Protocol, Manulife Investment Management, and Forum for the Future announce the launch of an Eco-Harvest pilot project in Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, and Tennessee. Read more
Emily Bushby is Deputy CEO at Nesta and BIT. Prior to this, Emily was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at GuarantCo and her previous roles have included leading the finance functions at a world top ten university and a medical related charity, as well as performing mergers and acquisitions for a highly acquisitive FTSE 30 business and investment management within the banking sector. Read more
Forum’s Reimagining Consumption programme is bringing together wide-ranging stakeholders to transform consumption and to develop action plans with game-changing potential. Read more
The ‘BECCS Done Well’ Report joins others in recognising that a range of Negative Emissions Technologies — both nature- and technology-based — will be needed if we are to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5oC by the end of the century. Read more
Finance is an extraordinarily powerful agent of change. What role does the finance sector have in response to the multiple chaotic transitions underway? This paper looks at some of the innovative ideas gaining interest in corners of the finance sector, primarily viewed through a capital markets investment lens, and from a European perspective. Read more
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In this 2022 report, the Climate and Health Coalition reviews progress, highlights some encouraging examples of integrated action on climate and health which deserve to be widely replicated, and details actions business can take to seize the initiative and make change happen. Read more
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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
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
This report was written in partnership between Forum for the Future and Capgemini to stimulate an important debate about how professional services companies and other organisations working to deliver sustainability outcomes for their clients or partners can meaningfully measure these outcomes (initially in terms of carbon impacts). Read more
As Forum for the Future announces its new 2023-2025 strategy, For a just and regenerative future, Chief Executive Dr Sally Uren sets the context by exploring where the sustainability movement has made progress and where it’s fallen short. Recognising the crossroads the world stands at right now and the transitions already in play, Sally outlines Forum’s focus on enabling deep transformation over shallow, incremental gains, and how we will hone in on food, energy and business. Read more
A more sustainable future in which people and the planet can thrive is within our grasp. Creating it will mean embracing the immensely unsettled nature of a world that is changing, everyday. Read more
Forum for the Future announces its 2023-2025 strategy outlining three pivotal ‘transitions’ that it will focus on in its efforts to create a ‘just and regenerative’ future in which both people and the planet thrive. Read more
A more sustainable future in which people and the planet can thrive is within our grasp. Creating it will mean embracing the immensely unsettled nature of a world that is changing, every day. Among the multiple transitions already in play, Forum believes three offer genuinely game-changing potential to address our intensifying environmental, social and economic crises: how we think about, produce, consume and value both food and energy, and the role of business in society and the economy. Read more
School of System Change in Finance, launched by Aviva Investors in partnership with Forum for the Future and the School of System Change, is a course for inspired and ambitious leaders from across the finance system who are keen to contribute to wider change in the finance industry and to build their own capacity to drive deep change for sustainability. Read more
Zoya is a skilled facilitator and ecosystem enabler for impact driven networks, cross-sector collaborations and social innovation. She is a network partner for the School of System Change in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, facilitating learning experiences and cultivating the field in this region. Read more
At Forum for the Future we have set our vision as a just and regenerative future, and our mission is to accelerate the transition towards it. A just and regenerative approach means strengthening the capacity of all living systems to adapt, replenish and regenerate; respecting everyone’s human rights and potential to thrive; and rewiring our economies and societies to serve both people and the planet. Read more
International sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future and leading healthcare businesses Bupa, Haleon, Reckitt and Walgreens Boots Alliance have joined forces to mobilise and equip the private sector to accelerate the integrated transformation of health and climate systems, delivering benefits for both people and planet. Read more