Green Alliance
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| Founded | 1979 |
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| Type | Charitable trust |
| Focus | Environmental policy |
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| Website | green-alliance.org.uk |
Green Alliance is a charity and an independent think tank focused on ambitious leadership for the environment in the United Kingdom (UK). Founded in 1979, it works with influential leaders from the NGO, business, and political communities. Its work aims to generate new thinking and dialogue, and has increased political action and support for environmental solutions in the UK.
The organisation has three main subject themes on which it conducts analysis and makes policy recommendations. These are: Natural Environment, Low Carbon Energy and Resource Stewardship. Many of Green Alliance's projects involve collaboration with partner businesses and NGOs to ensure policies are both progressive and workable.
Since the early 1990s Green Alliance has convened the chief executives of UK's foremost environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in strategic alliances, leading joint advocacy to government on major policy issues.
Notable individuals involved in Green Alliance's early years include Maurice Ash, Tim Beaumont and Tom Burke.
Green Alliance's staff is based in central London. It has diverse support base, including an individual membership of approximately 400 leading environment professionals, and many partnerships with leading businesses and NGOs.
Green Alliance's blog is a platform for insight and commentary from both staff and external opinion formers on UK environmental policy and politics. It was a finalist in the 'Green and Eco' category at the UK Blog Awards 2016.
In 2009 Green Alliance was awarded 'Think Tank of the Year' at the Public Affairs News Awards. In 2016 it was awarded 'Best Environmental Campaign by an NGO' at the Green Ribbon Political Awards for its work in securing the party leaders' climate agreement and received Highly Commended for NGO of the Year at the Business Green Leaders Awards 2016.
Green Alliance was founded in March 1979 to inject an 'ecological perspective into the political life of Britain'. Founder Maurice Ash said at the launch "We’re a bunch of optimists. We’re not the doomsters. We believe in the possibilities of the future...” Ever since, Green Alliance has focused on influencing UK government environment policy.
Early on, in the 1980s, it elicited the first ever environmental policy statements from all the main UK political parties. It was the first organisation in the UK to raise genetic modification (GM) as an environmental issue at the end of the 80s, with its risk analysis which informed new government regulation.
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