ActionLabs

In this ActionLab, leaders are invited to explore one central question: which climate transitions truly generate the best outcomes for future generations?

As countries prepare the next generation of climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, businesses are becoming some of the most influential actors shaping the future of society.

At the same time, datasets and benchmarks from Global Child Forum increasingly reveal how companies impact children and future generations through supply chains, technologies, working conditions, digital environments, and local communities.

Meanwhile, trillions of dollars are now flowing into electrification, AI infrastructure, industrial transformation, batteries, mining, food systems, and climate adaptation.

But while climate progress is largely measured through emissions reductions and competitiveness, far less attention is paid to the long-term societal outcomes of the transition itself.

About the experience

Norrsken’s Fixathons bring together business leaders, entrepreneurs and experts, in high-intensity “Fixathons” designed to rapidly turn ideas into real-world solutions.

Using Global Child Forum data and benchmarks as a key foundation – alongside climate data, EU climate targets and NDCs, and corporate sustainability data – participants will explore what a truly future-positive transition could look like. Every climate transition should pass the next generation test.

Participants will work around one shared challenge:

How can we identify, measure, visualise and accelerate climate transitions that generate the best outcomes for future generations?

Teams are encouraged to focus on areas close to their own industries, companies, technologies, or investment areas — from energy and AI to mobility, supply chains, food systems, materials, finance, or digital infrastructure.

What will you take away from the session?

Past Fixathons have yielded the following:

• A “Next Generation Score” for climate investments or transition strategies.
• A digital investment advisor identifying transitions with the strongest long-term societal outcomes.
• AI tools translating climate transition data into societal impact insights.
• Dashboards visualising hidden risks or opportunities within green supply chains.
• Frameworks helping companies evaluate whether their transitions are future-proof beyond carbon reduction alone.

This ActionLab explores the risks of continuing business as usual and the opportunities of bold climate action, bringing into focus how the choices we make today will shape our children’s future.

Join us for an ActionLab that brings the future into the room.

Through immersive storytelling, expert guidance and discussions, you will explore how you can help shape a future where children, society and the planet thrive.

Building on EY Doberman’s award-winning Four Futures experience, this session turns climate scenarios into strategic reflection and practical action.

You will move from seeing and feeling possible futures to identifying where leadership, collaboration and renewed action are needed in your own organisation, sector or investment context.

About the experience

Four Futures is a science-based experience that explores four possible climate futures in 2055, shaped by different levels of climate action, transition and risk mitigation.

The experience includes a short film that combines scientific analysis with storytelling, making the long-term consequences of today’s choices tangible.

Four Futures has been delivered around the world to more than 27,000 business leaders, including C-suite executives from companies such as Google, Adobe, AT&T, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft and Nike.

The experience has also been featured at COP28, New York Climate Week and Mobile World Congress.

What will you take away from the session?

• A sharper view of future risks and opportunities for business, children and society.
• A chance to challenge whether today’s strategies are truly future-proof.
• Concrete ideas for action within your organisation and together with other leaders.

Be part of an ActionLab exploring how business decisions made today shape the wellbeing and development of the youth of tomorrow — in dialogue with students from Stockholm School of Economics.

Co-hosted by the students representing your future talent pipeline, this workshop leverages the perspective of the youth uncovering hidden human costs behind corporate decisions.

Through tangible scenarios and future thinking, we will actively disrupt conventional business approaches and encourage leaders to map the real-world consequences of their strategies. Together, let’s build companies for the next generation.

About the experience

Return on Generation (ROG) is an interactive experience exploring the relationship between business decisions and youth wellbeing in a rapidly changing world of work.

Working in groups alongside students, participants are presented with familiar business scenarios and invited to examine them through the ROG Lens, revealing the often-hidden effects on young people’s career pathways, education, communities, mental health, and connection to the workplace.

The experience brings together current research on the future of work, and AI’s impact on young people’s learning and wellbeing. Students bring their own lived experience into the room, challenging assumptions and translating executives’ decisions into a live prototype using Insight Bridge, an AI-powered tool built with Lovable.

By combining business expertise, student perspectives, research, and interactive technology, the ActionLab makes the potential human consequences of today’s decisions tangible, and offers executives a practical framework for carrying these considerations into future decision-making.

What will you take away from the session?

• A new perspective, to challenge assumptions about young people and strengthen cross-generational connection in the workplace.
• Practical decision questions to bring back to your board and leadership team when considering the impact of business decisions on future generations.

Global Child Forum’s Benchmark

Engagement with Global Child Forum—whether as a partner, initiative member, event participant, or featured on our communication channels—does not affect a company’s Benchmark score.

Benchmark scores are calculated based on publicly available information and in accordance with our public methodology.