MEGA (Mobilizing an Earth Governance Alliance) is a coalition of civil society organizations working in cooperation with like-minded governments, legislators, experts, private sector actors and other stakeholders to strengthen existing environmental governance mechanisms and establish additional mechanisms.
Earth’s ecosystems are being destroyed by poorly governed economic development and international competition. Global environmental governance is essential to transcend national interests and protect earth’s ecosystems for current and future generations.
MEGA is led by the Climate Governance Commission and World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (co-hosts) in cooperation with 31 co-sponsoring organizations (see below). We welcome other organizations joining MEGA as participating organizations. 139 organizations have already done so.
MEGA hosts an online platform of proposals, campaigns and reports for effective environmental governance
MEGA builds communication and co-operation amongst organizations other stakeholders working in the field
MEGA supports and facilitates advocacy to governments, policy makers and other decision-makers
MEGA undertakes public education and builds public engagement in international environmental governance
The MEGA platform includes a range of campaigns and proposals addressing different aspects of global environmental governance. These campaigns and proposals are being led by different organizations and networks.
Organizations participating in MEGA are free to support some, many or all of the campaigns and proposals as suits their interest, expertise and constituencies. Many of the campaigns and proposals included in the MEGA platform have been explored in detail in Governing our Planetary Emergency, the 2023 Report of the Climate Governance Commission.
The World Federalist Movement – Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP) was established in the 1930s to promote stronger, democratic world governance leading toward a world federalist system. Such a system would ensure subsidiarity, i.e. the appropriate forms of governance for each level of society from the individual/family levels to community, city, national, regional and global levels. At the global level, stronger governance mechanisms are required to prevent war, protect the environment, safeguard human rights, end poverty, advance democracy, curtail corruption and achieve the sustainable development goals.
WFM-IGP dos this by strengthening and expanding current international organizations such as the United Nations, and establishing additional governance mechanisms. WFM-IGP, for example, established the Coalition for an International Criminal Court in 1993 which led to the creation of the court in 1998. This has brought individual responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
The Climate Governance Commission was established in 2020 by the Global Challenges Foundation to explore, evaluate, develop and promote high impact global governance solutions to facilitate urgent and effective climate action to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C or less.
The Commission released its interim report, Governing Our Climate Future in 2021, and its Flagship Report report, Governing Our Planetary Emergency, in November 2023.
The commission is comprised of a group of diverse and high-level experts from academia, politics, business, science and civil society. Principal partners in the Commission partners include the Stimson Center and the Exponential Roadmap Initiative.
