Rebranding Sustainability : Exclusive In Conversation

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The Future Laboratory has partnered with UK-based Arbor Communications to launch our Rebranding Sustainability series. In this In Conversation overview, Fiona Harkin and Stephanie Turner, co-authors of the report, unpack the ideas reshaping one of the most debated topics in business today. Watch to hear how sustainability fatigue is being challenged with bold new thinking and how to reframe sustainability through the lens of brand strategy.


Sustainability is dead. That’s quite a provocative statement, we know. Sustainability is one of the key issues our clients here at The Future Laboratory ask us about, especially as sustainability narratives are facing growing scepticism and fatigue in a post-greenwashing world. Businesses must still address these issues as political discourse and legislation intensify. So we’re re-invigorating the conversation. 

Our Rebranding Sustainability series is broken down into six core reports that provide a refreshed perspective that combines forward-thinking intelligence with practical insights, and delivers on its promise to empower clients with confidence and strategies for the future.

If sustainability were a product, how would you rebrand it? What would you keep? What would you kill? 

Meet the trailblazers leading the conversation

13 May 2026

Author: Fiona Harkin

Image: Stephanie Turner and Fiona Harkin in conversation

‘From savvy ownership to localised luxury, brands are reframing how they position sustainability. This report explores a shift in consumer sentiment, from need states to values-based exchanges. Real behaviour change happens when doing better feels good, and the better choice feels like the obvious one’

Fiona Harkin, director of foresight, The Future Laboratory

 

 

‘Eco-fatigue and greenwashing scepticism dominate, and ‘sustainability’ has come to mean so much that it means little at all.

It is increasingly unlikely that sustainability, in its current incarnation, will ever be a compelling enough story to change consumer behaviour’

Stephanie Turner, founder and director, Arbor Communications

: For our partners: You can access the full Rebranding Sustainability report series now as part of your membership.

: Not a partner yet? To unlock the full 30-minute conversation and access the entire report series, the best way is to become a partner of our intelligence platform.

: Alternatively, you can purchase the single report from our shop or read our article on Sustainability Through the Lens of Brand Strategy.

 

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