Making Collaboration Work for Climate and Nature

These alliances are member-based coalitions that unite organizations in the same sector or across sectors around common goals. They aim to leverage complementary capabilities, knowledge and collective influence to define or improve industry standards and practices. This may be in response to supply chain sustainability challenges and industry-wide regulation, or to harmonize approaches and foster innovative solutions in particularly fragmented industries.These coalitions achieve their goals by fostering transparency and knowledge-sharing, fuelling standardization and disseminating best practices. Convened by a central secretariat – either member- led or independently orchestrated – members typically sign on to formalized commitments to defined climate and nature actions and targets, aligning to a shared public-good objective that transcends individual incentives. Members collectively address industry barriers to achieving climate and nature objectives and may leverage their influence to influence or advise on public policy and regulation.Model 2 Industry-wide alliances Industry- wide alliances aim to leverage complementary capabilities, knowledge and collective influence to define or improve industry standards and practices. How an industry-wide alliance can create systemic impact FIGURE 2 Click to open case study details MODEL 2 CASE STUDY BUILT BY NATURE (Bb N) Orchestrated by a central non-profit, this cross-industry network-of-networks brings together demand-side actors across the construction industry to accelerate the timber- building transition, by sharing knowledge and collectively developing solutions.Systemic impa ctAlliance members Central secretariat orchestrating the alliance Making Collaboration Work for Climate and Nature: Practical Insights from GAEA Award Winners 7