action to save this planet
vision
Save the Planet is a campaign to create a sustainable, secure, innovative, just and fair system for this world.
We focus on the most pressing issues driving us into an ecological, social and economic crisis:
We focus on the most pressing issues driving us into an ecological, social and economic crisis:
- Global warming
- Material growth economics
- Biodiversity loss
- Food production
- Energy production
- Transport and urban systems
- Toxification of the biosphere
- Care of people affected by global warming
- Global inequity and unfair trade
- Over-population
- Improving our political system.
approach
Save the Planet is building a member-based organisation to run and support non-election and election campaigns.
Our purposes
We are a political party and campaign organisation determined to implement vital changes needed to:
We want to sustain humanity, civilisation and the diversity of life on the planet and to improve wellbeing for all people.
We seek to achieve this through public education and political and non-political campaigning.
- ensure we return to a Safe Climate (maintaining global average temperatures at pre-industrial levels) as quickly as possible and avoid a climate catastrophe as a result of human-forced climate change;
- create a sustainable economy and lifestyles.
We want to sustain humanity, civilisation and the diversity of life on the planet and to improve wellbeing for all people.
We seek to achieve this through public education and political and non-political campaigning.
Goals
- Return the global average temperature and ocean acidity to pre-industrial levels as quickly as possible
- Create a world that is environmentally and socially sustainable
- Work to eliminate high levels of inequality.
CLEAN POLITICS
Save the Planet will seek to keep the dirty internal and external politics that consumes so much of big party politics out of its organisation.
We do this by having a range of mechanisms to ensure a healthy party. These include:
We do this by having a range of mechanisms to ensure a healthy party. These include:
- A candidate selection membership category to prevent branch stacking. Members need to be actively involved in the party prior to selecting candidates.
- Allowing candidates to be selected to run for multiple elections.
- Setting a limit on how long an elected member can serve in a position both within internal party positions and in an elected public office.
- Allowing a candidate who is elected to a seat to re-contest without competition, unless there is a successful motion of no confidence.
- Having a code of conduct for candidates and sitting members.
- Returning the majority of any electoral funding to the party's grassroots.
- Preferencing according to an agreed formula based on climate policy with no deals (see the attached preference policy below and elections page for more details).
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CONSTITUTION
Our constitution sets out the rules of association that govern the party, including its executive, branches, candidates and members.
Our constitution sets out the rules of association that govern the party, including its executive, branches, candidates and members.
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