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  1. Our approach
  2. Convening systemic collaborations

System change collaborations

Collaboration works. We help build sustainable sectors and value networks, prototype innovations and new systems, and scale up existing activities for more impact.

One thing we've learned over the years is that complex, interconnected challenges like poverty, water scarcity and climate change must be tackled systemically – and that's only possible when the 'unusual suspects' work together to solve common problems.

As a convener, dialogue instigator and guide to practical solutions, we identify and assemble stakeholders from right across the value chain and develop areas where they can collaborate to transform not only their own operations, but entire systems.

Maintaining these powerful collaborations draws on our ability to translate the need for system change across sectors, cultures and personal perspectives. It can be challenging work at times, but the impact it has on vital systems like food and energy is undeniable.

Change systems with us

We have a 25 year track-record of solving complex sustainability challenges on a global scale. To find out how we can help you, contact our team of change agents.

Growing our Future India

Growing our Future India

Accelerating the transition to regenerative food and agriculture Read more

Published: 24th September, 2024

Author: Nitin Kesar

Growing our Future UK

Growing our Future UK

Accelerating the transition to regenerative food and agriculture Read more

Published: 23rd June, 2022

Updated: 2nd September, 2024

Author: Ulrike Stein

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: 18th December, 2023

Author: Lucinda Thurmer

Circular Leap Asia

Circular Leap Asia

A new Forum report shines a light on the huge untapped potential of fashion manufacturers to contribute to the fashion sector’s circular transformation and highlights the opportunity to recalibrate industry power dynamics as the industry emerges from the COVID-19 crisis. Read more

Published: 1st September, 2020

Updated: 13th July, 2023

Author: Madeleine Wild

Growing our Future US

Growing our Future US

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

Published: 20th May, 2020

Updated: 11th October, 2023

Author: Maria Powazka

Edible Fats and Oils Collaboration

Edible Fats and Oils Collaboration

A collaborative, open-innovation initiative aiming to shift the edible fats and oils sector onto a sustainable footing. Explore its work so far. Read more

Published: 4th April, 2019

Updated: 13th March, 2024

Author: Madeleine Wild

#OneLess

#OneLess

The #OneLess campaign has been leading the charge against ocean plastic pollution since 2016, focusing on the pervasive single-use plastic water bottle. Because everything we do touches the ocean. Read more

Published: 18th April, 2018

Updated: 15th March, 2021

Author: Madeleine Wild

Tea 2030

Tea 2030

Tea 2030 was set up in 2013 to help deliver a sustainable tea industry, from crop to cup. To do that, we needed the cooperation and collaboration across the tea industry, from pickers and packers to producers and purchasers. Read more

Published: 29th November, 2017

Updated: 22nd February, 2023

Author:

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. Read more

Published: 29th November, 2017

Updated: 1st November, 2023

Author:

Beauty and Personal Care Sustainability Project

Beauty and Personal Care Sustainability Project

Demand for sustainable products is growing, and calls for safe and sustainable products, with transparent and clear ingredient lists, are increasing. So, how do we get more sustainable products on retailers’ shelves? Read more

Published: 29th November, 2017

Updated: 22nd February, 2023

Author:

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  • How can we create just and regenerative routes to market for the UK food system?

    How can we create just and regenerative routes to market for the UK food system?

    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.  ​

  • Growing our Future India

    Growing our Future India

    Accelerating the transition to regenerative food and agriculture

  • The Future of Dairy in the UK

    The Future of Dairy in the UK

    Cultivating a more resilient future for the UK dairy industry

  • Climate and Health Coalition Food Cluster: Enabling Private Sector Action and Collaboration Around Climate, Health and Food

    Climate and Health Coalition Food Cluster: Enabling Private Sector Action and Collaboration Around Climate, Health and Food

    Britvic, SIG and Waitrose join the Climate and Health Coalition's food cluster to work on enabling and accelerating the transformation of our food and agricultural systems towards outcomes that deliver health benefits for both people and planet.

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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.

  • Jobs

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

  • For a just and regenerative future

    For a just and regenerative future

    Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability organisation running out of offices in the UK, US, India and Singapore.

  • Growing our Future US

    Growing our Future US

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Transport or Mobility: What’s the difference and why does it matter?

    Transport or Mobility: What’s the difference and why does it matter?

    Recently, the word transportation is being replaced with mobility. Why is this happening? What’s the difference between them? And why should we care about this change?

  • 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.

  • Transforming the Purpose of Business

    Transforming the Purpose of Business

    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?

  • Become a system change agent

    Become a system change agent

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

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