James Payne is Associate Director for Transformational Strategies at Forum for the Future, a leading international sustainability non-profit. For more than 25 years Forum for the Future has been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate the transformation towards a sustainable future.
In this video, James explains what it means for companies to build more resilient business models, why those models need to have a focus on social justice and regeneration at their core, and how this is related to tackling the impacts of climate change on the most vulnerable. Also, he lists a number of examples of companies and initiatives that are moving in the right direction.
Additionally, in this new article Caroline Ashley, Global Programmes Director at Forum for the Future, and James write about how considering both social and environmental issues in an integrated way is key to authentic responses that will build resilience.
Resources
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- Waking businesses up to the moment of time we are in
- The likely disruption businesses are facing into in the decade ahead
- Moving from viewing your business as a machine to seeing it as a living system
- From externalising impacts to realising that we need to reinvent how a business operates to recognise the reality of how interconnected it is with its operating context
- Moving from a static, zero-sum game view of the world, to seeing potential
- General Mills: 1 million acres regenerative agriculture target
- Nestle Generation Regeneration strategy
- Unilever sustainable and regenerative sourcing
- Nespresso Reviving Origins programme
- Interface ‘Factory as Forest’
- Tea Swaps, Kenya
- Kuapa KoKoo
- Interface Net-effect product and Net-works programme
