Navigating the skies towards a low carbon future
How does the aviation industry fit into a low carbon world? Oriana Brine, Senior Sustainability Strategist at Forum for the Future APAC, recounts insights from Air New Zealand's recent Sustainability Masterclass, run by Forum's Founder-Director and Chair of Air New Zealand's Sustainability Advisory Panel, Jonathan Porritt.
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The Futures Centre is being rebuilt
This summer we will launch a new Futures Centre, which will focus on supporting and enabling futures for system change and will aim to become the go-to place for all sustainability-focused applied futures.
In the meantime, you can visit our temporary home for the Futures Centre here or view the Future of Sustainability 2019 report here.
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This month on the Futures Centre
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The Futures Centre spotted two potential wins for ecological and cultural regeneration.
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Signal of Change /
The world's first programming language written in classical Chinese is attracting a community of enthusiastic coders. Could linguistic revival through computer programming help put socio-cultural regeneration at the heart of digital developments?
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Signal of Change /
Iceland moved away from commercial whaling in 2019, with two major businesses halting their activities. Will the significant contribution of whales to ecosystem maintenance and regeneration finally be valued above their cultural status as a culinary delicacy?
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Future Plates: Transforming culinary skills and training
Our new pilot programme looks to integrate sustainable food and protein into mainstream culinary education and recognises the crucial role chefs play for the future of food.
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Responsible Business Summit Europe: 26-28 May 2020
How to lead the decade of action: Finance, adaptation, collaboration. 2020 is THE year for business to act on the environmental and social issues that we face. Set the next generation of goals and raise the bar on what your business needs to do to help lead the way. Now is the time to seize the opportunity and move from dialogue to large-scale action.
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Net Impact Approaches 2020
The leading annual event that focuses on impact measurement, valuation and net zero/positive target setting for environmental, social and economic outcomes in a business context. This event will bring together the different communities involved to share best practices, highlight key initiatives, move the topic forward by addressing pressing issues, and facilitate collaboration with key players. Held on 20 May in London.
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Join The Liveability Challenge
Are you working on a game-changing urban food production, circular packaging or decarbonisation solution for cities in the tropics?
Then submit your ideas to The Liveability Challenge, and you could secure more than US$700,000 in funding at Singapore’s Ecosperity Conference on 8 July 2020.
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Responsible Business Summit New York: 17-18 March 2020
The Responsible Business Summit New York 2020 will convene 750+ CEOs, Chief Sustainability Officers, ESG investors and leading NGOs from across the globe to share their latest strategies.
Save 10% with our discount code FFTF100.
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Top lessons for Fashion month
We are now two months into the decade of delivery, and while there are hopeful signs, the apparel industry needs wholesale change to avoid sleepwalking into a +1.5 degree world.
Elizabeth Rich, Sustainability Strategist at Forum for the Future Americas, reflects on recent work in light of Fashion month.
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