As Forum for the Future’s latest Future of Sustainability campaign: Reimagining the Way the World Works continues to showcase the social and climate initiatives challenging the status quo, we should each ask ourselves: what can we learn? What are the ‘Bright Spots’ teaching us? Read more
As Forum for the Future’s latest Future of Sustainability campaign, Reimagining the Way the World Works, gathers pace, Forum’s Futures Lead, Alisha Bhagat, and Senior Futures Centre Strategist, Siddhi Ashar, consider how futures tools and long-term thinking can help us scale and amplify the social and climate initiatives giving us hope. They also talk to six characteristics representing what’s urgently needed: transformational change. Read more
In a world facing climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and growing inequalities, incremental change won’t cut it. But signs of hope are emerging. On the back of COP16 and COP29, Forum for the Future’s Chief Executive, Dr Sally Uren, introduces Forum’s latest Future of Sustainability campaign, Reimagining the Way the World Works. Read more
This month, Forum for the Future is shining a light on our efforts to shape the food transition towards a just and regenerative future. Forum’s Global Food System Transition Lead Geraldine Gilbert outlines: what are we seeing, what’s going well? And what is our collective contribution with the changemakers we work with? Read more
What happens when an organisation intentionally creates time to pause, reflect, and learn together? In this reflection from Forum’s May 2026 Learning and Impact Week, we explore why learning is central to how impact happens, and why making space for collective inquiry matters more than ever. Read more
Extreme heat is exposing cracks in the systems we rely on every day, from healthcare and energy to business continuity and worker safety. As temperatures rise, are our systems prepared to withstand it? Read more
What’s holding our agriculture system back, and what signals real change? Discover six pathways to accelerate a just, regenerative future. Read more
Forum's Natasha Mehta and Michelle Stearn explore how insetting and ecosystem service payments can better finance regenerative agriculture for farmers, while highlighting key challenges around scale, trust, and supply chain integration. Read more
Forum's Partnerships & Development Lead, Martin Hunt explores the value of role-playing futures games for individuals and organisations looking to catalyse system change. Read more
Games have been proven to provide a creative, action-oriented way to experiment within the current system and imagine how we might create impact. This blog explores how, together with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, we created a game to help decisionmakers to think and act differently. Read more
In this blog, we share why we built the 'Changing Currents' game, what happened when players embodied roles from ministers to investors to campaigners, and what it revealed about navigating uncertainty in the fight for decarbonization. Read more
Forum for the Future has today published its latest Future of Sustainability report, Courage to Transform — highlighting four possible future trajectories and calling for five shifts in how businesses operate if they are to manage the systemic risks associated with an increasingly disrupted climate. Read more
Forum's Associate Director, Practice & Program Impact, Georgia Rubenstein reports on the second of two recent Listening Session Forums on Energy System Decarbonization, in which the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supported the convening of energy system actors for interactive workshops on bridging the gap between research and action. Read more
Told through the lens of changemakers, this piece explores how Forum for the Future has partnered with businesses and leaders over the past decade to drive systemic transformation in India. Through futures and systems thinking, Forum has helped uncover new opportunities, align strategy with purpose, and create lasting impact — all shaped by the insights and actions of those leading the change. Read more
Transitioning to low-carbon energy systems requires academia, industry and civil society to be deeply interlinked and aligned. To help bridge existing gaps in the energy system, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation convened a series of workshops bringing together a wide range of stakeholders. Forum's Futures Lead, Alisha Bhagat takes us through the events at the first workshop and shares insights on what is needed to build a stronger link between research and action. Read more
Reflecting on the ambition for greater organisational impact in her new role as Chief Acceleration Officer, and taking inspiration from Forum for the Future's ongoing relationship with People's Postcode Lottery, Dr Sally Uren explores the power of philanthropy. Read more
As the world adjusts to a new US President, businesses and organizations are making decisions impacting their equity, justice, and climate initiatives. Here, Senior Programs Advisor Christina Daniels-Freeman highlights how Forum for the Future is continuing to support companies to accelerate a just and regenerative future. Read more
As 2024 ends, sustainability leaders in businesses find themselves reflecting on a year marked by retreats and challenges. Lauren Meadow, Principal, Business Partnerships, US and Priya Kvam, Associate Director, Americas and Global Development, dive into how visionary leaders can seize opportunities for innovation, foster resilience and drive competitive advantage. Read more
In a rapidly changing food landscape, middle actors have a key role to play in transforming the UK fruit and vegetable sector towards regenerative practices. Forum Affiliate Valentina Toledo shares insights from Forum’s Growing Our Future UK collaboration that highlight how these intermediaries can align their strategies with regenerative principles to create a more sustainable supply chain. Read more
Transforming the UK food system to embrace regenerative practices depends on forging innovative and equitable routes to market. But how do we support the shift to make this happen? Here, Forum’s Senior Change Designer, Kat Zscharnagk distils five key principles identified as essential for creating new routes to market that support the UK’s transition to regenerative food systems. Read more
In this blog, Duncan Williams, Forum’s Principal for Food and Regenerative Agriculture, explores how our work aims to build the potential for a more just and regenerative food system. Read more
Food and fibre industries are facing and further perpetuating complex and interconnected challenges across global value chains. In this blog, Forum’s Associate Director for UK and Europe, Hannah Cunneen, explores what we’re seeing across food and fibre systems, and the opportunities for cross-sectoral collaborations in meeting social and environmental challenges head on. Read more
Through a series of interviews and workshops with frontline community leaders and experts, we’ve heard that climate justice progress is slow and solutions are not directly benefiting communities. Here, Ksenia Benifand, Forum’s Senior Principal Change Designer, explores how the private sector can embrace its role and responsibility in creating equity-centered, collaborative climate justice solutions, through our recently co-published Business Guide to Advancing Climate Justice. Read more
How can visionary leadership address systemic climate and health problems and create transformative solutions? Hannah Pathak, Forum’s International Managing Director and co-director of the Climate and Health Coalition, shares why it is imperative for the private sector, and those in leadership positions, to step up and take a systemic view of health to create co-benefits for climate and health. Read more
Amid political upheaval, extreme weather, inequality, and economic volatility, businesses play a crucial role in addressing global crises. Dr Sally Uren, Chief Executive of Forum, highlights six key features that can unlock the private sector's potential: access to finance, global supply chains, consumer brand influence, innovation, data utilisation, and impactful partnerships. Read more
Almost half the UK population has lost trust in energy companies, and many are struggling to pay their bills. Why are public acceptance and trust critical to meeting our Net Zero targets? Zoe Le Grand, Forum’s Managing Director – UK/Europe, explores what’s wrong with the current discourse in the energy system and how Forum’s Our Energy Transformed project could help. Read more
There are three practical ways Forum uses futures to build collective capacity to respond to uncertainty and deliver on impact. Ariel Muller, Forum’s Director of Futures and Strategic Initiatives, explores the practices in this blog. Read more
Critical minerals are key to the energy transition, but also pose big risks. In their latest blog, Forum’s India Energy Transition Lead, Saksham Nijhawan and Senior Change Designer, Neil Walker, dissect the challenges and opportunities surrounding these essential elements for renewable energy technologies – and propose a just and regenerative way forward. Read more
Growing interest in hydrogen’s potential as an alternative to fossil fuels has been rising. But does hydrogen, as an energy carrier, support our most hopeful imaginations? In this blog we examine whether hydrogen's development and deployment represent innovation or familiarity. Read more
Explore the insights from The Business Guide to Advancing Climate Justice, co-published by Forum for the Future and B Lab U.S. and Canada, with reflections from Ksenia Benifand, American Climate Futures’ Program Director. Read more