Members of the Alliance know that no one institution can solve the challenges we face alone. Working together ensures greater, more urgent action to protect our only home. And each member is enabled to contribute its unique strengths toward a just world, on a safe planet.
The Accountability Accelerator is a funder, ecosystem-builder and thought leader driving corporate accountability and action for nature. It strengthens the global accountability ecosystem by connecting actors, aligning initiatives, and directing resources where they can have the greatest impact toward its vision of a safe and just future for people and planet. Its is to drive action to stop and reverse harm to nature by companies through an impactful and just accountability ecosystem.
Arctic Basecamp is a science communication organization that translates cutting-edge polar and climate science into accessible, actionable insights for decision-makers and the public. Its mission is to “speak science to power” — raising awareness of the global risks of climate change amplified by polar change, and driving bold, systemic action to safeguard Earth’s life-support systems.
The B Team is a global collective of 32+ business and civil society leaders driving a prosperous and fair future on a healthy planet for all, and a small secretariat of 17 employees supporting the leader group. Its mission is to catalyze business action to address the biggest challenges facing people and planet.
Banka Earth Foundation’s mission is sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) solutions for all, at all times, and in all places. The organization operates in India, partnering with corporate entities and other civil society organizations, in providing access and solutions.
Bellwethers is dedicated to expanding a generation of leaders, challengers, visionaries and communicators. Its aim is to establish normative power to enable a future nature and climate economy. To do this it recruits and equip leaders who can legitimise, implement or normalize nature, climate and equity goals, shaping new norms through their actions and influence.
Climate Basecamp was founded by actor and activist, Rainn Wilson, comedy writer Chuck Tatham, advertising expert Steve Walls and social scientist, Professor Gail Whiteman. Its mission is to speak science to culture, targeting people who are not actively engaged through five pillars of culture: food, entertainment, sports, fashion and music.
The Climate Governance Commission (CGC) addresses a critical gap in confronting the global climate emergency. As an independent initiative, the Commission develops and promotes effective, science-based governance solutions to tackle climate and broader Earth system risks. By bringing together leading thinkers and organizations, the Commission works to close key action gaps – in implementation, policy, and global coordination – that continue to hold back meaningful progress.
Climate Spring is a global organization with a mission to change the public conversation on the climate and nature crisis by partnering with popular culture. It operates a Development Fund which is used to invest into a pipeline of new TV and film content, advises the creative industries, and provide training and guidance. It has also incubated and initiated interventions in culture on climate including the Climate Fiction Book Prize.
The Earth Commission assesses and synthesizes the latest science to define the boundaries for a safe and just planet. Convened by Future Earth, the world’s largest network of sustainability scientists, the Commission unites an international team of natural and social experts to identify critical planetary thresholds – to ensure there is clean air and water, biodiversity, and a stable climate in which all life can thrive. This work informs the development of science-based targets for cities and business, and guides the pivotal transformations needed for a safe and just world.
Earth HQ is an independent initiative creating the connective tissue between culture, communications, and systems change. It convenes journalists and artists, scientists and storytellers, strategists and organizers — all working toward the same goal: to reimagine humanity’s relationship with the planet and accelerate collective action.
Future Earth is a global network of scientists, researchers and innovators collaborating for a more sustainable planet. This global community is spread over a series of networks and governing and advisory bodies.
International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) is a global, non-profit association dedicated to the study and application of impact assessment. The global network of 1,400 individual and corporate members across 110 countries, hosts regional events and an annual global conference, as well as offering training, career development courses and industry benchmark publications on best practice, including a highly regarded professional journal IAPA.
MEGA is a coalition of civil society organizations working in cooperation with like-minded governments and other stakeholders to strengthen environmental governance. It provides a platform to connect environmental organizations, governance proposals and campaigns.
The Nature & Climate Impact Team at the University of Exeter Business School, led by Professor Gail Whiteman, exists to accelerate action on nature and climate. With philanthropic support from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, it’s helping turn cutting-edge research into practical, positive action – faster. It collaborates with businesses, creatives, NGOs, and policymakers to co-create nature-positive, climate-smart, and collaborative paths to accelerating change.
Open Planet Studios is an award-winning, world-leading producer of natural history and impact content, and part of the UN’s SDG Media Compact. It specializes in engaging both large and targeted audiences with video content that tells stories about the world’s problems and emerging solutions. It has worked with broadcast partners from Netflix (Breaking Boundaries and David Attenborough: A life on Our Planet), to the BBC and Discovery+ (The Earthshot Prize: Restoring Our Planet), and YouTube Originals (Seat At the Table).
The mission of the Planetary Health Alliance is to promote, mobilize, and lead an inclusive, transdisciplinary field of Planetary Health and its diverse science, stories, solutions, and communities to achieve the Great Transition, a comprehensive shift in how human beings interact with each other and nature, in order to secure a livable future for humanity and the rest of life on Earth.
The Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) unites a coalition of global environmental organizations in a civil-society and science-led initiative to equip companies and cities with the guidance they need to stay within an environmentally safe and socially just operating space. SBTN is extending the concept and momentum of the Science Based Targets initiative, which helps companies mitigate their GHG emissions, to address broader environmental issues through science-based targets for nature.
Systems Change Lab monitors, learns from and mobilizes action toward the transformational shifts needed to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges: limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C, halting loss of biodiversity, and building a just and equitable economy. Its research and data dashboard tracks global progress for more than 70 transformational shifts across nearly every system, enabling users to compare current action against targets we need to reach by the end of this critical decade and by 2050 to protect people and the planet.
The mission of the World Federalist Movement is to create more effective, transparent, and accountable global governance leading to democratic world federation. It has 47 Member Organizations which between them have tens of thousands of individual members. Its two flagship programs are MEGA (Mobilizing an Earth Governance Alliance, strengthening global governance of the global commons) and Law not War (promoting non-violent resolution of conflict), as well as a number of working groups including global governance of artificial intelligence, building a mass social movement, and interfaith and values outreach.
If you’re here, it’s likely that your organization is already making a significant contribution to safeguarding the global commons for all people. By joining the Global Commons Alliance, your efforts can be multiplied.
The Alliance can help expand your sphere of influence as part of an interconnected, science based effort to deliver systemic shifts in policy, governance, economic systems, culture, and society. It is becoming a platform for new partnerships and initiatives in which the missions and activities of individual members are progressed through the combined impact of the whole alliance.
Through cross-sector collaboration, the Alliance empowers decision-makers to catalyze systemic shifts that bring economies and societies within the planet’s Safe and Just limits. It facilitates shared analysis and strategy, coordinates insights and initiatives, and builds trust and collaboration mechanisms. And each member is enabled to contribute its unique strengths towards a collective effort.
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