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# Climate Action Collective
This document outlines the aims and objectives of establishing a light-weight, time limited collaboration around building a new form of commons that enables participants to maximise their effectiveness in taking climate action.

The organisation is formed as a temporary co-operative governance structure, with each member have equal say in the decisions. The organisation will be folded, or otherwise encorporated into the new governance structure for GaiaFest and the Climate Action Platform on Feb 2nd 2022.

## Aims

We aim to collaborate together in order to provide a new form of commons (climate action commons), together with governance and supporting software (climate action platform), that we provide to environmental festivals such as COP26 and Stockhom+50 in order to link climate science, and open deliberation to taking climate action.

The collaboration aims to support the project goals of each participant in the project, by providing a global stage in which to present their work, and to encourage finance and investment in members projects. As such we seek to come together to promote members interests, avoid competition, and encourage synergy between members.

# Objectives
We will:

1) Establish an initial minimal legal structure (MIN), based on cooperative principles under Norwegian law, that offers participants limited liability, and legal personhood in order to apply for and administer funding for the project.
2) Develop a software platform designed to support a new climate commons, which is structured to be of utility in the facilitation of discussion, decision making, and taking action regarding the climate crisis.
3) Establish a Climate Action Directory to facilitate participants in the platform finding each other developing projects focussed on taking climate action.
4) To build a community (climate commons collaboratory) around the project. We aim to form partnerships and recruit additional members to the cooperative, with a particular focus on involving and encouraging environmental conferences and festivals touse the platfrom in their events.
5) To co-create and establish a new form of participatory governance for the project, which we present at COP26 to be endorsed by participants in the project, particpants at the event, and with the wider global community. The presentation of the new governance model will be presented on stage as "100% Gaia" which aims to engage as diverse a community as feasible in the discussion on the platfrom in order to decide the governance of the festival for the next year (2022).
6) The climate commons, climate action platform, and 100% Gaia performance will be presented online, and physically at the COP26 and Stockholm+50 conferences as a decentralised climate action festival (deCAF) in which we invite participants form online and physcial events all over the world.

# Founding Members
- David Bovill, Inger-Mette