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By: Fiona Wright – CTFutures, Principal Strategist & Design Lead How could an overarching framework for global sustainability constraints support regional conflict resolution work? How might it help identify common needs, threats, and goals that could support groups in deep conflict find common ground? As Artemis II sends back new images of our one single planet amidst what feels like constantly escalating social conflict, I am prompted to reflect on this. These are questi

By: Tracy Lydiatt – CTFutures, Senior Strategist In 2008, I sat in Karlskrona, Sweden with two remarkable colleagues, Patricia Mesquita (Brazilian Social Scientist consultant in Mining) and Anne Nolan (Australian Health and Safety Consultant in Mining) and asked a question that felt almost naïve at the time: “ How can the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development assist mining projects to contribute strategically to a sustainable society? ” We called ourselves BIM,

The most important data in any strategic planning process rarely lives in a spreadsheet. It often lives in the room, within the assumptions people hold, the tensions they don’t name, and the priorities that only surface when someone asks the right question in the right way. That’s what we set out to test when we partnered with the Building Decarbonization Alliance (BDA) at their national forum in the fall of 2025. From Audience to Authors The BDA came to us with an excelle

ESG Without Strategy Is Just Expensive Reporting ESG frameworks have answered an important question: What should organizations disclose? But many teams are discovering the harder question comes next : Disclose in service of what? There’s a growing list of ESG demands: new disclosures, shifting regulations, expanding metrics, and rising stakeholder expectations making it challenging to stay on top of what’s current and what’s material to each company’s context. According to

In its early form, we think yes. And we can see the metamorphosis happening. A tectonic shift that will be a rally call for stronger visions, more pressure to avoid risk, and greater focus on the skill of trade-off decision-making within sustainability constraints. The Evolution of Sustainability As a sustainability trained professional for over 20 years, it’s been interesting to observe the changing context of what sustainability means; specifically, how’s its interpreted, a