Evolving together: Celebrating 6 months of progress

06/05/2026

Six months ago, the Global Commons Alliance overhauled its membership structure to forge stronger collaboration across a diverse ecosystem of organizations, accelerating action toward a just world on a safe planet.

Since this announcement, we have grown to more than 30 members who engage with one another and work together across four high-priority areas: science, culture, governance, and economy. 

The GCA Secretariat supports members by hosting regular Global Commons Dialogues and Learning Sessions, and the Global Commons Alliance is mutually contributing to safeguarding the global commons through collaborations such as: 

• Strategic Convening: Members and allies are translating insights and evidence-based assessments (e.g., from Systems Change Lab) into urgent, coordinated action, directly addressing longstanding and emerging challenges and opportunities.
• High-Impact Partnerships: Fragmented efforts are connected into powerful partnerships at major global summits, with members such as  Planetary Guardians, Earth4All, We Don’t Have Time and Earth Commission collaborating at COP30, World Economic Forum, Munich Security Conference, and the Santa Marta Fossil Fuel Phase Out Conference.
• Ecosystem Intelligence Exchange and Action: Facilitating learning exchanges, for example the Sunway Centre on Planetary Health shared insights from their work advocating for Malaysia’s National Planetary Health Action Plan and Accountability Accelerator shared details about their approach holding companies to account for supply chain impacts. These exchanges, to be enhanced further by delivery of some core tools such as a dynamic AI-supported ecosystem map, accelerate cross-organizational learning, improve effectiveness, and enable organizations’ strengths to be deployed within new partnerships, reducing duplication and waste. 

All of these activities better position the Alliance to drive change for good in a volatile social, economic, and political landscape. This approach also addresses the root-causes of our ecological and climate crises, while delivering tangible impacts across the Earth domains.

Margarita Astralaga, Chair, Global Commons Alliance, says: “The growth of the Alliance over the past six months is proof of one simple truth:  nobody can tackle the cascading crises that we all face alone. Our shared future — as an ecosystem of actors and as all life on Earth — depends on unified action, grounded in science.

“In an increasingly fractured society, we are bound by the collective need for a just world on a safe planet. From science and civil society to business networks and philanthropy, the power of genuine collaboration — across disciplines, sectors, and geographies — is how we will drive systemic change across governance, economics, and culture to create a safe and just future for all.”

With an exciting pipeline of learning, exchange, and program partnerships on the horizon, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of the Global Commons Alliance. Contact us to get involved!