Projects
Recent Forum for the Future projects include:
- Tourism 2023. The Forum worked with leading travel companies to develop four scenarios exploring the future of the UK outbound tourism industry, a vision for a sustainable industry and a strategy to achieve it. It published a report in October 2009 when British Airways, TUI Travel, Thomas Cook and the other partner companies announced they were signing up to the vision
- Fit for the Future. The project explored the impacts of climate change on the UK National Health Service, made recommendations on creating a sustainable low-carbon healthcare system and presented scenarios for the future of healthcare which health professionals can use to test strategy. It was jointly produced with the NHS Sustainable Development Unit.
- FT Climate Change Challenge. The competition, backed by the Financial Times newspaper and technology company Hewlett-Packard, aims to promote green innovation and give publicity to the most promising new ideas to tackle climate change. Nearly 300 projects from around the world entered the competition in 2008-09.
- Sustainable Cities Index. The Forum’s annual Sustainable Cities Index tracks progress on sustainability in Britain’s 20 largest cities, ranking them on environmental performance, quality of life and future-proofing – how well they are addressing issues such as climate change, recycling and biodiversity. Bristol came top in 2008 and Newcastle in 2009.
- Climate Futures. The report, jointly produced with HP Labs and published in October 2008, analyses the political, economic, social and psychological consequences of climate change and shows how different global responses to the problem can lead to very different futures. It presents five scenarios for 2030 and explores the role of business and technology.
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Famous quotes containing the word projects:
“But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)