Our new strategy will meet the challenges of the next five years – Inside track

This post is by Shaun Spiers, executive director, and Laura Sandys, chair, of Green Alliance.

The next five years will be crucial for everything Green Alliance stands for. Solutions to the climate and nature crises must scale up quickly and their benefits need to be felt by many more people.

We must accelerate the transition to an economic system where people and the environment can thrive together. But economic headwinds, fierce political pushback and shifting public expectations are creating challenging conditions.

Green Alliance’s new strategy runs to 2030 because it is a critical year for both climate and nature targets. Our experience and expertise position us as a leader in addressing the challenges of the transition we need to see.

Consensus is fracturing
Having worked hard for decades to build a political consensus on the need for bold environmental action, we now see this consensus fracturing. However, there is still a strong mandate for ambitious environmental action. Our new strategy sets out how we intend to help strengthen, deepen and broaden that mandate by putting people at the heart of the environmental imperative.

In developing the strategy, we spoke to politicians and partners to understand what is special about Green Alliance and where we need to change. We heard that our work distilling complex issues for policy makers and promoting evidence based, politically salient solutions is valued. Our partnerships and our position at the heart of the environment sector make us a well respected and independent advocate.

We’re building new partnerships and greater agility
Yet the challenges facing the public and the planet have never been greater. So we are developing our role over the next five years for greater impact. Independent and politically impartial, we will align partners and convene new surprising and dynamic alliances in pursuit of clear strategic goals. This will give us the agility to move quickly, test ideas and change course when necessary. Our solutions must work for the public, so we will root our work in economic, racial and social fairness.

Operating in an increasingly complex context, with few simple solutions, our contribution is to mobilise the power of our triple track capability: policy credibility, political acumen and powerful partnerships. We are proud of our team and committed to nurturing the talent and skills that will enable us to flourish.

Our internal culture will be informed by our values, and we hope you see them threaded through everything we do. Our plan is to secure benefits that people can see in their lives, while ensuring they are popular and fairly shared globally.

If you are interested in working in partnership with us to increase our impact as part of our dynamic alliance, whether as an individual or as an organisation, please get in touch.