The world needs storytellers

15/10/2025

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Dear Planetary Steward, dear friend of the Global Commons Alliance,

The past two weeks have seen two landmark reports that stress the urgency – and huge potential – for a just world, on a safe planet. 

This week’s 2025 Global Tipping Points Report warns that humanity is fast approaching critical ecological thresholds. Yet the report also points to “positive tipping points”: moments when social, economic and technological systems can shift rapidly toward regeneration and resilience. Such shifts depend on collective effort to envision new stories about what is possible. This is what André Aranha Correa do Lago, COP30 President Designate, calls a “Global Mutirão” in the report foreword: “Where all nations and communities act together, by choice, to build a future not imposed by catastrophe, but designed through cooperation.”

Just a week before this, the long-anticipated EAT–Lancet 2.0 report was released, mapping a path toward a fairer and more sustainable food system. Authors explain that transforming how we produce, distribute, and consume food – including reducing waste and becoming predominantly plant-based – can restore ecosystems, reduce inequality and prevent 15 million premature deaths annually. This is not merely a technical challenge, but a cultural one. To change the way we eat is to change the way we relate to each other, and to the planet that sustains us.

To drive this change we need more stories to be shared with diverse audiences, by amplifying resources and networks like Mongabay, Open Planet, Earth HQ, EPIC Blueprint, Julie’s Bicycle and Climate Spring; explore a packed map of culture initiatives across the world from We Make Tomorrow.

Because facts may alert us to injustice, but stories move us to act. They remind us of what is at stake: the global commons we all inherit are not just abstract, complex ideas. They are the places, communities, and people we love.

Wherever you are, now is the time to listen deeply to the storytellers rising from every corner of the world – farmers reimagining food systems; Indigenous People restoring forests; scientists sounding alarms; and communities finding hope amid loss. Their stories stir hearts and have the power to shift systems.

Now more than ever, the world needs storytellers.

With all our best, 
Will Tucker, Director of Communications and Resource Mobilization, and Sebastian Schienle, Director of Partnerships and Programs

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