The Earth Governance ImPACT Coalition was established at the 2024 UN Civil Society Forum as one of 20 such ImPACT coalitions formed to build civil society cooperation and advocacy on specific issues relevant to the UN Summit of the Future, which took place in September 2024.
The focus of the ImPACT Coalition is on establishing and strengthening environmental governance mechanisms. Such mechanisms (political, judicial and executive) are vital to ensure implementation of environmental obligations and accountability to law protecting the environment. See Why Earth Governance.
The ImPACT Coalition works on building engagement of and cooperation between civil society organizations, like-minded governments, legislators, experts, private sector actors and other stakeholders on environmental governance proposals and initiatives, some of which have been thoroughly researched by the Climate Governance Commission and can be found in the 2023 CGC Report Governing our Planetary Emergency and summarized on the Mobilizing an Earth Governance Alliance website (see proposals).
The Earth Governance ImPACT Coalition was originally hosted by Mobilizing an Earth Governance Alliance (MEGA), in collaboration with Major Groups at UNEP and the Gulf Research Center Foundation. Since March 2025, the ImPACT Coalition became part of MEGA.
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ImPACT Coalition at the UN Civil Society Conference and follow-up
The ImPACT coalition held its inaugural in-person session on May 10 at the 2024 UN Civil Society Conference in Nairobi. The session included an introduction to the coalition, general discussion on earth governance issues and proposals, and a deep dive into six of the earth governance proposals that are gaining traction, in order to refine and take account of a broad and inclusive range of perspectives.
The first online meeting of the Earth ImPACT coalition took place on May 22, 2024.
The second online meeting of the Earth ImPACT coalition took place on March 7, 2025. At this meeting it was agreed that the work of the ImPACT Coalition would be undertaken as part of Mobilizing an Earth Governance Alliance (MEGA).
Coalition workplan
At its first online meeting, the coalition adopted a Work plan of activities to be undertaken between the UN Civil Society Conference and the Summit of the Future.
Updates on the implementation of the workplan are published in the MEGA newsletter.
For further information contact Alyn Ware, MEGA Program Officer and Contact point for the ImPACT Coalition.
The Coalition was orginally convened by Mohamed Adelraouf, Major Groups at UNEP and the Gulf Research Center Foundation; Yétúndé Bintu Asika, Bandung Africa; Marie-Claire Graf, Youth Negotiators Academy; Maja Groff, Climate Governance Commission; Neshan Gunasekera, World Future Council; Judge Peter Herbert O.B.E (retd), Bandung Africa; Eoin Jackson, Climate Governance Commission; Rebecca Shoot, Citizens for Global Solutions; John Vlasto, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy and Alyn Ware, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy. It is now managed by the MEGA Steering Committee.