The dual crises of climate change and inequality call for urgent, bold action. Laudes Foundation has joined the movement to accelerate the transition to a climate-positive and inclusive economy.

Our 2025 strategy

Our vision

is one where global markets value all people and respect nature

Our mission

is to support brave action to inspire and challenge industry to harness its power for good

Our sectors and interventions

Finance and
Capital Markets

Fashion

Built environment

Working with four key stakeholders

Policymakers

create bold policy and regulatory frameworks

Investors

build an accountable financial sector

Business leaders

enable climate-positive businesses and embed inclusion and equality

Workers and producers

and their communities become part of the solution

Our approaches

Accelerating advocacy

 by building capacity, supporting, scaling and amplifying advocacy efforts by partner

Scaling research and innovation

to enable adoption, monitoring and evaluation of proposed tools, models and solutions

Amplifying narratives

and changing the dominant narrative around the economic system to build support for change

Strengthening  accountability

via funding mechanisms, including transparency, to motivate progress and enforce standards and protections

Cultivating  alliances

by convening partners, coalitions, networks and movements towards collaboration

Reimagining the economic system

through the creation of new models, solutions, narratives and policies to redefine the purpose of the system

By 2030 we aim

to reshape ideas and redesign incentives to rebalance power

  • In finance and capital markets,
    we see a shift in the global economic system so that every euro invested in capital markets takes into account its impact on all people and nature

  • In fashion, we contribute to an apparel industry which builds long-term value for business, workers, producers and nature

  • In the built environment, we enable an inclusive and regenerative urban built environment that prioritises decarbonisation and inspires healthy living and working spaces

Economic System Map

During the development of our five-year strategy and theory of change, we consulted 300 senior leaders, changemakers and experts to gather their insights to enable us to chart our discoveries onto a dynamic map of the global economic system. More than 130 organisations, who share our goals of mitigating climate breakdown and reducing inequality, are featured, offering a shared understanding of the economic system and how it needs to change. The map supports strategic discussions around the challenges and interconnections in the global economy and benefits a broader community.

Explore our Economic System Map

Theory of Change

Our interactive Theory of Change illustrates how our interventions contribute to short- and long-term changes. 

It guides our actions, shapes our decisions on partnerships, informs how we monitor and evaluate existing relationships, and provides a framework for impact assessment.

Explore our Theory of Change

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You can download our strategy one-pager below.

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Finance and Capital Markets – Interventions

  • Integrating the price of climate-related externalities into policy
  • Influencing investors and banks in becoming Paris-compliant across all assets
  • Engaging investors to drive business and industry toward Paris-compliance
  • Expanding new economic thinking into practical application with policymakers and business

Fashion – Interventions

  • Ensuring a just transition, including social protection for workers
  • Promoting incentives for accountability, including transparency and regulatory mechanisms
  • Promoting collective action, the agency of workers and communities, and the organisations that support them
  • Enabling legislation to incentivise next generation and circular materials (and disincentivising fossil fuel-based materials)
  • Accelerating investment into next generation and circular materials (and disincentivising investment in fossil fuel- based materials)
  • Transitioning business models (in materials) to landscape approaches, creating more income security for farmers and enabling climate-positive practices

Built Environment – Interventions

  • Establishing and implementing industry roadmaps as well as enabling legislation on whole-life carbon and circular economy

  • Accelerating the equitable distribution of investment in net-zero carbon and resource-efficient buildings

  • Supporting communities to ensure sector decarbonisation and increased resource efficiency promote equity and inclusion.

  • Accelerating the uptake of sustainable wood and bio-based materials construction

Policymakers

Policymakers reform, implement, enforce and protect critical laws and policies that require climate-positive practices, equity and inclusion.

Investors

Financial sector actors use their influence, policies, practices and valuation methodologies towards ensuring climate-positive practices, equity and inclusion.

Business leaders

Businesses promote and implement bold policies, models and practices that are climate-positive and contribute to equity and inclusion.

Workers and producers

Workers, producers, and communities claim rights and build power to organise and advocate for equity and inclusion, and climate-positive policies and practices.