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Beyond greenhouse gases: Transforming project design through impact measurement

Measuring impact: a methodology to inform transformative project design- Report out now

Co-produced with Capgemini, you can now read Forum for the Future's latest report to explore how businesses can adopt this methodology and go beyond calculating current emissions to inspire transformative project design and decision-making.

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Share the report with your network, and join the conversation on Twitter with #BeyondGHG.

If you would like to find out more then get in touch with us at futurescentre@forumforthefuture.org

Did you catch us at ClimateWeek NYC 2022?

As global warming and climate change impact our planet, Capgemini is focusing on becoming part of the solution.

Capgemini is committed to choosing a path to net positive and are keen to co-innovate with their clients and partners in that journey.

Next-generation supply-chain management is imperative in addressing a business’s true impact on climate change.

Dr. Sally Uren was a keynote speaker along with Dr. James Robey, Global Head of Sustainability at Capgemini, and Sol Salinas, Global Executive Vice President at Capgemini during Climate Week NYC to explore how technology can provide transparency in complex supply chains. During this event, wealso discussed Web 3.0, including blockchains and smart contracts-enabling technology that can provide transparency and traceability of Scope 3 carbon tracking of products and services in complex supply chains.

This hybrid event featured speakers such as Evangeline Marzec, Kieren James-Lubin, Adam Schafer, Greg Urban, MBA, MSc, Mathew Yarger from Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange’s ecosystem who are changing the game in supply chain management.

If you are interested in learning more and joining this exciting discussion, watch the recording here!

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About project

We can all agree that there is a need to transform the way we act and that the time for deep transformation is ripe.

With the growing adverse effects of climate change, it is crucial that businesses reexamine the role that they can play not only through their operational emissions but also through their relationship with the external ecosystem.

Businesses are constantly looking at several pathways to create positive impact, including a strong focus on tackling Scope 3 emissions, alongside Scope 1 and 2. Transparency and accuracy surrounding Scope 3 emissions measurement are notoriously difficult to achieve, but a fundamental necessity if it is going to inform how to better focus resources to ensure the maximum positive impact.

Launched in September 2022, Forum for the Future and Capgemini’s
Beyond Greenhouse Gases: Transforming project design through impact measurement project explores how businesses can unlock more transformative project design and decision making, through the lens of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. For the next two months, we will continue to publish a series of insights and podcasts on an ongoing basis exploring the world of carbon accounting, climate impacts, futures thinking, and project design.


Our report, Measuring Impact: A methodology to inform transformative project design lays out the thinking of both Forum for the Future and Capgemini on this important topic, bringing their experiences to life in both a proposed approach and with a range of practical real-life examples. It is not intended to be definitive, rather to provide greater guidance for measuring Scope 1, 2 and 3 impacts through the sharing of the greenhouse gas (GHG) Impact Methodology, to enable more accurate and meaningful measurement and prediction of a project’s GHG footprint.


Read our recently published report co-written with Capgemini to explore how businesses can adopt this methodology and go beyond calculating current emissions to inspire transformative project design and decision-making. 


Listen to our special edition podcast where we discuss the  future of businesses in a regenerative world, their importance in shaping it, and how they can thrive – co-produced with Capgemini

Can businesses rise up to the complex challenges of today? Can we unlock transformative decision-making before it’s too late? What will it take for businesses to grab this window of opportunity for deep transformation through the lens of greenhouse gases (GHG) reductions? In this 3-part special edition of The Futuring Podcast, Sol Salinas (Global Executive Vice President & Sustainability Lead – The Americas) from Capgemini chats with innovators, business leaders and sustainability experts to explore the trajectory beyond Net Zero, examine the potential of impact measurement to raise business’ ambition and build a future where people and planet thrive. Can business radically transform not only their but also their partners’ supply chains and enable more systemic impact?

Find all our episodes on your favourite podcasting platforms: Spotify, Google Podcast, Amazon Music, Listen Notes and more!

  • Listen to Episode 1 on Spotify here – “Why does your business exist? Discussing business, courage and humanity with Andrew Winston”
  • Listen to Episode 2 on Spotify here – “How can we use futures thinking to reimagine how businesses can accelerate to a just and regenerative future? Featuring Alisha Bhagat”

Episode 3 coming soon


Did you catch us at Climate Week NYC 2022?

The path to net positive: next-generation supply-chain management

Next-generation supply chain management is imperative in addressing business’s impact on climate change. Dr. Sally Uren was a keynote speaker along with Dr. James Robey, Global Head of Sustainability at Capgemini, and Sol Salinas, Global Executive Vice President at Capgemini from Capgemini during Climate Week NYC 2022 to explore how technology can provide transparency in complex supply chains.

You can now watch the recording here!


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About the Series

Can businesses rise up to the complex challenges of today? Can we unlock transformative decision-making before it’s too late? What will it take for businesses to grab this window of opportunity for deep transformation through the lens of greenhouse gases (GHG) reductions? In this 3-part special edition of The Futuring Podcast, Sol Salinas (Global Executive Vice President & Sustainability Lead – The Americas) from Capgemini chats with innovators, business leaders and sustainability experts to explore the trajectory beyond Net Zero, examine the potential of impact measurement to raise business’ ambition and build a future where people and planet thrive. Can business radically transform not only their but also their partners’ supply chains and enable more systemic impact?

Find us on your favourite podcasting platforms: Spotify, Google Podcast, Amazon Music, Listen Notes and more!

Episode 1: Why does your business exist? Business, courage and humanity with Andrew Winston

In the first episode of The Futuring Podcast’s mini-series in collaboration with Capgemini, Sol Salinas (Global Executive Vice President & Sustainability Lead – The Americas) from Capgemini, talks to Andrew Winston, a sustainability strategist and author of “Net Positive” and “Green to Gold”.

Tune in to hear them explore how businesses impact (and are influenced by) systemic change, interconnected challenges, and stakeholders, how impact measurement and technology are playing a role in net zero commitments, and why and how businesses can thrive by transforming their model to regenerative, net positive models.

Episode 2: How can we use futures thinking to reimagine how businesses can accelerate to a just and regenerative future? Featuring Alisha Bhagat

In this special edition of The Futuring Podcast, Sol Salinas (Global Executive Vice President & Sustainability Lead – The Americas) from Capgemini and Alisha Bhagat, Forum for the Future’s Futures Lead and teacher of Futures Studies and Speculative Design at Parsons School of Design in New York reflect on the discourse around transformative change has shifted in recent decades and the mindset that we need to imagine what sort of change is needed moving forward.

Tune in to hear Sol and Alisha explore the role of ‘futures’ thinking – why it is necessary and how to utilise it – whilst drawing on many examples and even making parallels with science fiction! What should the future look like, and what questions do businesses need to be asking?

Episode 3: Could Earth observation data be the new GPS? Using satellite data for climate action with Carine Saut

In the third episode of the Futuring Podcast’s mini-series in collaboration with Capgemini, Sol Salinas (Global Executive Vice President & Sustainability Lead – The Americas) from Capgemini, talks to Carine Saut, Business Developer, Science and Space Applications at Capgemini.

Tune in to hear what the present and future hold for the role of earth observation data, how it may become part of our day-to-day lives just like GPS did, and how, through rigorous innovation with a systems lens and collaboration, it can catalyse our impact in creating a just and regenerative world.

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