about us.
Shared Planet was founded to help organisations to deliver positive social and environmental impact by providing research, analysis and stakeholder engagement support. We work primarily with civil society organisations, academic institutions and IGOs and governments on cultural and environmental issues.
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Our business name is anchored in our belief that we must radically reorient human society and culture to prioritise living in harmony with nature by allowing biodiversity to thrive, embracing de-growth and supporting a nature-positive approach to the economy that is inclusive and exists within planetary boundaries. We work with clients that share our values and are seeking to drive progressive change.
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Our clients tend to be organisations that are seeking to resolve significant challenges or drive transformational change, which requires taking a multi-stakeholder approach to collaboration and dialogue. Our team offers a range of stakeholder engagement and analytical consulting services that help clients to understand scientific perspectives and recommendations, the issue and policy landscape, and the most important stakeholders to engage to inform their organisational strategy and delivery.
Our recent clients
Our values
We are a values-led organisation, and are driven by our desire to make a positive contribution, be our best professional selves and constantly improve and progress. There are many things that are important to us as a team, but these three values unite us and define how we approach our work as individuals and collectively.
The relentless pursuit of excellence
Striving for excellence and achieving high standards is what we are all about; we try to deliver an outstanding work product every time for our clients and exceed their expectations. Our ambition is to be the best in our field and deliver the greatest impact for ourselves and our clients. We pursue excellence in our work because we care about the success of our projects and we have high standards for ourselves, believing that consultancy support should be done comprehensively and to a high standard.
Celebrating intellectual curiosity and learning
Embracing intellectual curiosity and learning is our way of life — it’s not just something we do at work. We want to learn and know everything about everything. A passion for knowledge, a curiosity to uncover the wonders of the world, and endless learning enhances our professional development and contributes to the overall success and progress of Shared Planet and our clients. Everybody wins.
Practising kindness, compassion and generosity
Practising kindness, compassion, and generosity at work have not historically been valued in the workplace, but they are at Shared Planet. These are critical attributes that create a positive and supportive professional environment and makes us who we are. We are all about positive energy, seeing the glass as half-full, giving people the benefit of the doubt and doing the right thing by others whenever we have the opportunity.
The Tropical Forest Alliance worked with Shared Planet in 2022 on a project focused on the TFA’s workstream to address the challenge of deforestation in the beef supply chain between Brazil and China through its initiation of the Beef Dialogues. During the project, Shared Planet helped us to create a number of core deliverables: a White Paper that outlined a Blueprint For A More Sustainable Beef Trade Between Brazil and China, a Terms of Reference document for a new multi-stakeholder platform (the Beef Alliance), a stakeholder mapping to help us to expand our engagement, a stakeholder engagement strategy to guide the expansion of our stakeholder community and an onboarding pack. We found Shared Planet’s work to be very professional and exceeded our expectations and the team to be extremely energetic, responsive and flexible to the demands we made.
Director of Latin American Operations, Tropical Forest Alliance
Our practices
As a team, we are committed to playing our part in helping others solve systemic social and environmental issues. We structure our business not around industry, but around other stakeholders critical to the issues we want to solve. As a business, we actively pursue client work, long-term and short-term projects and volunteering opportunities that allow us to make an impact in our six practice areas.
CULTURAL HERITAGE AND LANSCAPES
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We are pushing the planet’s life support system to the edge. Humans have increasingly destroyed and degraded forests, grasslands, wetlands and other ecosystems for personal benefit. However, destroying surrounding wildlife and habitats entails the destruction of our own culture and society — natural and cultural spheres are intertwined and cannot be considered as mutually exclusive. Engagement with and an understanding of culture is a critical factor for individual and community identity and wellbeing. Today, the value of culture is not sufficiently invested in or recognised, thus we are committed to promoting the value of both cultural heritage and natural restoration.
CLIMATE AND NATURE GOVERNANCE
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We are facing a global triple challenge: tackling climate change, reversing biodiversity loss, and promoting the well-being of the planet’s population. Addressing this challenge requires collaboration among various stakeholders, including international organisations, government and public sectors, private industry, civil society, and local communities. At Shared Planet, we aim to facilitate this collaboration through a range of services, including stakeholder mapping, coordination, communication support, analysis and research, as well as developing guidelines to ensure that decision-making related to climate and nature includes all affected stakeholders.
FOOD SYSTEMS, NUTRITION, AND HEALTH EQUITY​
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The current food system is not working. Over 723 million people in the world are hungry daily, equivalent to 1 in 11 people in the world and nearly 1 in 5 in Africa. With the current crises and conflicts, this number is only expected to rise. The lack of global health equity clearly demonstrates the stark divides in access to healthy, nutritious food and points towards the destructive consequences of food poverty and insecurity experienced by the most vulnerable. To strengthen global food security and fortify each of its pillars of access — availability, affordability, utilisation, and stability — we need to act now to attain sustainable food systems for all.
JUST TRANSITIONS​
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A just transition is a bold, structural and democratic shift away from longstanding systems of exploitation, extraction, and alienation and towards systems of production and consumption that prioritise human well-being and ecosystem regeneration.
The idea of a just transition recognises not just that we must swiftly move towards a sustainable, net-zero, and nature-positive future, but that this shift must be equitable and inclusive — underpinned by practises of solidarity, cooperation, and sharing.
DIGITAL RESILIENCE​
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The dynamic evolution of the Internet and new technologies continues to shape and reshape our world. The proliferation of information and creation of global networks forged by social media have shifted public life to online spaces. Meanwhile, the explosion of AI, and growing reliance on digital tools, are forcing societies and industries to reorient their practices, values and goals.
One of the greatest opportunities — and challenges — of the 21st century is to embrace the digital era, and its positive contributions, with fairness, equity, resilience and a people-first approach in mind.
HUMANITARIAN ACTION​
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Marginalised communities, particularly women and girls, face disproportionate challenges during crises, often compounded by climate-related risks. Our work aims to address the deep-rooted social, economic, political and environmental inequalities that exacerbate vulnerability in humanitarian contexts. By highlighting these intersectional issues and advocating for gender-responsive policies, we contribute to the broader humanitarian effort to ensure that every voice is heard, and that support is equitable and effective.
Working with a coalition of five environmental groups, Shared Planet grasped the complexity of the European Elections 2024 and its different policy areas. They helped us to get to the bottom of how the EU green policies impacts citizens positively in their daily lives - from wildlife regeneration in the Fagaras Mountains in Romania to safe school environments in Pamplona, Northern Spain — in a concise yet detailed report.
Tycho Vandermaesen, Policy & Strategy Director, WWF European Policy Office; Nadine Mingers, EU Elections Coordinator, Transport & Environment