What We Do
Our vision
GoZero envisages a world in which we all live safely in resilient communities and in harmony with nature.
Our mission
To end the overshoot of Earth's planetary boundaries, which is resulting in increasingly catastrophic ecological collapse and human suffering.
Our approach
The overshoot of planetary boundaries is the unavoidable consequence of economic models that promote endless growth on a finite planet.
Overshoot is driven by overconsumption. Finding ways to ensure everyone's essential needs are met within Earth's capacity to provide resources and absorb waste and pollution, is the main challenge facing humanity.
Avoiding the collapse of ecosystems and our societies, requires rapid action to reduce overconsumption and to guarantee universal access to basic services for all. The challenges we face are systemic in nature and require collective responses, with different strategies at different levels:
- We promote and incentivise sufficiency (living better by reducing harmful consumption) at the individual and household levels, through the GoZero platform. Community Teams will raise funds to enable community-level information sharing, events, sufficiency training, risk assessment, collective decision-making, and the creation of systems of accountability.
- We create Community Teams to strengthen build community connection and resilience, based on an understanding of multiple risks, through the GoZero Foundation.
- We support local businesses by involving them in supporting community efforts, and to strengthen local economies and sufficiency, instead of increasingly fragile and ecologically damaging long-distance supply chains.
- We also support community systems change advocacy, notably concerning sufficiency, providing access for all to basic services and ecological protection.
- We also work to inform about the behavioural barriers, systemic failures and false solutions that are preventing progress.
Our Values
Impact-driven
Creating a sustainable future by championing the reduction of ecological harm and systems change is at the core of what we do. We are driven by our passion to protect and conserve the health of our planet - not just for us, but for the generations to come. We are working to enable all climate actors to become emissions-free and drive down greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and to reduce overshoot of the other planetary boundaries.
Integrity
We will do what is right, even when it is not easy. Our commitment to transparency, accountability and governance, notably in how we measure climate action, is the foundation of trust that we build with our members, communities, businesses and partners. It is our continuous commitment to rigorously scrutinize and reward authentic behaviour that creates positive action and systems change.
Independence
Independence allows us to make decisions that prioritise the needs of our planet and our communities. We are data-informed and are not beholden to any political agenda or industry. Our independence allows us to be nimble and proactive to changing circumstances, and to operate guided by ethics, fairness and equality.
Collaboration
Real change starts when we come together. We believe that all actors engaged in creating positive change towards systems with people and planet at their heart, are our friends and allies. Creating a secure, resilient, sifficient future is only possible by building a community of people and organisations with shared goals and aligned interests, and fostering cooperation and participation among its members. We want you to join us to create this future, together.