joint strategy for environmental organisations
There are two main aspects to this work:
- Providing ongoing strategic political assistance and coordination for the major environmental organisations.
- Carrying out a specific project aimed at framing the battle for environmental leadership in the UK.
Our role
The UK’s major environment groups boast an impressive membership of 3-4 million people. From Greenpeace to the National Trust, these groups are united by a joint aim to give the environment the prominence it deserves in politics and public life.
Green Alliance helps this along, providing assistance with a strategic political focus for the major environmental organisations. This work includes:
- Strategy meetings for directors and chief executives of environmental and conservation organisations
- Co-ordinating meetings for environment groups with ministers and senior decision-makers
- Organising joint lobbies on issues like green taxation, reform of government institutions or the general election.
Current project: Seizing the political opportunity
Recent months have seen a huge change in the profile of environmental policy and politics - the very welcome David Cameron effect. It has provoked a real battle for the environmental mantle, and put far more political pressure on the government than at any time since 1997. However, the wider debate, both between the parties and in the media, has so far been superficial. The environmental NGOs now need to work together to move all parties beyond a relatively shallow debate towards more ambitious policy positions.
In addition to the ongoing NGO strategy work outlined above, we are also carrying out a project to frame the battle for environmental leadership in the UK. On 27 February nine leading environmental groups will launch a major new initiative to set a standard for political debate on the environment and shape the battle for environmental leadership between the political parties. They are CPRE, Friends of the Earth, Green Alliance, Greenpeace, National Trust, RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts, Woodland Trust and WWF.
Find out more by visiting our tests for environmental leadership project page.
Acknowledgements
Green Alliance would like to thank CPRE, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, RSPB, the National Trust, the Wildlife Trusts, the Woodland Trust and WWF for their support of this work.
Who we work with
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE)
Friends of the Earth
Greenpeace
Institute for European Enivronmental Policy (IEEP)
National Trust
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Transport 2000
World Wide Fund for Nature UK (WWF-UK)
For further details of this work, please contact Stephen Hale.
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