Webinar: Future of Sustainability 2020 - US
DATE ; Thu, Jul 30, 2020 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM BST
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Webinar: Future of Sustainability 2020 - US
Looking into the future: How can we harness the radical disruption presented by today’s crisis to drive a truly sustainable, just and resilient future?
30 July 2020 6.30 pm BST / 1.30 pm EDT
The United States is caught at the nexus of several global challenges: income inequality, institutional racism, climate change, food insecurity, and political polarization are some of the long-standing issues facing Americans today. These challenges are exacerbated by the COVID-19 healthcare crisis as several fault lines within society are laid bare and amplified by both the disease and the societal response.
At Forum for the Future, we believe it would be tragic to go back to yesterday’s “business-as-usual”; moments of radical disruption like this provide unprecedented opportunities to reinvent the future. We are therefore calling for business, governments, civil society and communities to seize this moment in helping to deliver a more just, sustainable and resilient world.
Drawing on research and insights we gather annually to understand what is next for the fields of sustainability, impact investing and philanthropy, we will share a suite of futures trajectories we have been developing which help us understand possible ways forward as change-makers. We believe only one of these trajectories, which we are calling Transform, has the potential to create the just, resilient and sustainable systems we need. It is based on a mindset that recognizes the interdependent nature of the challenges we face today. You can read more about the trajectories here.
The sessions will include reflections from inspiring change-makers who are pivoting their work in order to help enable this Transform trajectory – aiming to shift our political, economic and social systems so that they work together in service of human and planetary health, justice and economic resilience.
If there is ever a time to drive this disruptive change, it is now. We hope you can join us.
Questions we will explore with our panelists:
- how can we use futures tools to understand the effect of the decisions we make today on shaping the future?
- how are organizations pivoting their approaches given the pandemic and increased attention to issues such as structural inequality and racism?
- what is the role of organisations across sectors in creating a transformed economy as we emerge from this crisis?
- how can we all play a role in making the Transform trajectory a reality?
Panelists:
Host - Dr Sally Uren, CEO, Forum for the Future
Co-host - Sandra Seru, MD US, Forum for the Future
Fred Brown, President & CEO, The Forbes Funds
Lisa Morden, VP Safety and Sustainability, Kimberly-Clark
Amanda Nusz, VP Corporate Responsibility and President of the Target Foundation, Target
Other panelists will be announced soon
What role can we all play in harnessing current disruption to drive change?
Seven-plus months into the COVID-19 pandemic and momentum grows for calls to 'build back better.' But just how do we ensure we emerge into something more resilient, sustainable and equitable – and, more specifically, what role can we all play in harnessing current disruption to drive change?
This was the focus of Forum’s recent Future of Sustainability UK/EU webinar, in which we explored four possible trajectories we see emerging from COVID-19. Among the four sits Transform – a trajectory in which we recognise that human health equals planetary health and move to support efforts to create a world that is truly regenerative.
As Forum’s Chief Executive, Dr Sally Uren, explores in her latest Corporate Leadership in the Time of Corona column, Transform must prevail and what we do right now - and in the next six months - has never mattered more.
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A look back at 2019
Forum has published its 2019 Annual Report, highlighting progress in our work to help keep global warming to within 1.5 degrees and to ensure the sustainability of food and value chains.
While 2019 may seem a distant memory, it was a year in which the climate and biodiversity crises dramatically intensified. 2019’s global average temperature was 1.1°C above the pre-industrial period and the year became the second hottest on record. 2019 also concluded a decade of exceptional heat, retreating ice caps and rising sea levels.
Consequently, the 2020s are set for extreme turbulence, compounded by the world’s latest threat: COVID-19. Forum’s work, with the support of our partners, has never been more relevant and urgent and the report captures the many lessons learned over 12 months through our coaching programmes, our School of System Change, our work with organisations to develop transformational strategies, and our cross-sector collaborations.
Download the report
Five takeaways on the future of Man-Made Cellulosic Fibres
How do you move from discussion to action? Anna Warrington, Director, India, shares what she learnt from ambitious discussions in sessions co-hosted by Forum for the Future and Textile Exchange on the Net Positive future for the Man-Made Cellulosic Fibre industry. These sessions came out of our recent report MMCF 2030.
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Webinar: Future of Sustainability 2020
In the third of our Future of Sustainability webinar series, join expert panellists from Target, Kimberly-Clark and the Forbes Funds to discuss how we can harness the radical disruption presented by today's crisis to drive a truly sustainable, just and resilient future.
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...and finally
We're away this week! (Kind of.)
We'll be online delivering work as normal, but once a year the Forum team takes time to re-examine, reflect and re-connect with each other and the longterm goals and missions of our organisation. We call this our 'Away Days.' This year it's a little different, as we organise a 'virtual festival,' including breakout stages and lost and found, and we welcome the chance to take step back and look at the big picture. We hope you have a chance to do the same in your personal and/or professional lives.
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