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The Global Commons Alliance will be at the World Economic Forum 2025 which takes place in Davos, Switzerland on January 20–24, under the theme ‘Collaboration for the Intelligent Age’.

New research published today in The Lancet Planetary Health shows that the planet will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared.

Nearly three out of four people (72%) surveyed across 18 G20 countries support making it a criminal offence for government or leaders of large businesses to approve or permit actions which cause serious damage to nature and climate, finds major new research.

This event has been postponed, new date to be announced soon.

Third gathering: GCA 2.0 Oct 19th, 9am-10.30am CET or 4pm-5.30pm CET See session recording. Early session (9am-10.30am CET): Please register using the following link Late session (4pm-5.30pm CET): Please register using the following link

Working in partnership with the World’s Largest Lesson, the Global Commons Alliance recently brought a group of school children together for an art lesson on the subject of ‘Nature Positive’ the idea that we can all contribute to a future with more nature than we have now.

The Global Commons Alliance Leadership Council has published the following oped on the WEF Agenda G7 leaders called for the world to become net zero and nature positive. Nature positive means enhancing the resilience of our planet and societies to halt and reverse nature loss.

Today, Netflix launches a major new documentary about the risks to the global commons: Breaking Boundaries: the Science of Our Planet.  The 75-minute documentary is narrated by Sir David Attenborough follows the scientific discovery of the nine planetary boundaries with Johan Rockström, the chair of GCA’s Earth Commission.  Rockström and GCA director of communications Owen

Join the Leadership Council of the Global Commons Alliance (GCA) to create a plan of action to accelerate planetary stewardship in 2021.

A new series “Action Planet” will launch on Earth Day, April 22 on Discovery+. The series features Jane Fonda, Matt Damon and Greta Thunberg

The Earth Commission laid out its framework for a safe and just corridor for a future in which people can thrive without destroying the planet.

The Church Commissioners for England are the first investor to join a new Program to develop a framework that will help businesses tackle nature loss in line with science.