Working Groups
Our Working Groups represent five constituency-based channels for bringing different kinds of knowledge, legitimacy, authority, and implementation capacity into our emerging governance process. They are complementary.
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous People contribute lived stewardship knowledge and help ground decisions in communities responsible for many biodiversity-rich territories.
Learn more →Civil Society
Civil-society organizations connect public participation, advocacy, media, and voluntary adoption of global-commons-compliant finance.Civil Society broadens deliberation, builds awareness, engages the media, advocates for sound policy, and encourages voluntary adoption of GCC-compliant financial services.
Learn more →Science and Academia
Science and Academia contribute independent, peer-reviewed evidence concerning planetary boundaries and policy choices.
Learn more →Financial Services and the Private Sector
Financial Service Providers and the Private Sector translate recommendations into certified products, transaction-fee mechanisms, incentives, reporting, and implementation.
Learn more →Governments
Governments collaborate on cross-border issues while retaining local and national authority under the principle of subsidiarity; their agencies can implement recommendations, and cooperation may be formalized through bilateral treaties.
Learn more →Across these five groups, activities include consultations and deliberation; drafting and revising policy, certification, auditing, and reporting frameworks; education and adoption campaigns; financial-product and governance pilots; and preparation for a future Charter for the Global Commons.
Working Groups are voluntary, experimental, and early-stage. Voting rules, delegated authority, grant-allocation roles, conflict-of-interest procedures, and enforcement arrangements are still in formation.
As outlined in our Call to Action, when GCC transaction-fee revenues reach $10 million, the five Working Groups will organize a convention to develop a Charter for the Global Commons defining governance, accountability, certification, rulemaking, and dispute resolution for the Global Commons Commission and the Global Commons Fund.
For now, the Working Groups operate as stakeholder forums and co-design bodies. They are not yet fully constituted legislatures or grant committees.