THE STRATEGY OF SPIRE 2020-2025
Spire’s strategy has been developed by a committee which has gathered input from the whole organization, as well as from external actors and expertise. Our strategy is based on the organization’s overarching clause of purpose, and will shape our daily work and goals for the next five years.
Spire seeks to change the social structures that maintain an unfair distribution and management of economic, social, biological, and cultural rights and resources. Human activity has harmfully affected large parts of the world’s resources. We need a shift to where human activity instead will help to rebuild and regenerate the environment and its cycle. Environment and development (both human and economic) must be seen in context, and environmentally sustainable development is therefore central to Spire's work.
POLITICAL AIMS
In a world where resources are already extremely unevenly distributed, external crises such as the climate crisis amply these inequalities. It is the poorest in our society which suffer the most from the climate crisis, of which women, indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups particularly suffer. In addition, we see that both the public debate and the political measures introduced to solve the climate crisis cause increasing polarization among the population. The responsibility for solving our problems is put on the individual, instead of the society as a whole. In order for us to be able to create a sustainable and just world, we need a system change based on holistic ways of thinking where we solve all these problems together and see them in context to each other.
A SUSTAINABLE AND JUST ECONOMY
SUSTAINABLE AND JUST FOOD SYSTEMS
FAIR LOCAL AND GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF POWER
Spire’s strategy has been developed by a committee which has gathered input from the whole organization, as well as from external actors and expertise. Our strategy is based on the organization’s overarching clause of purpose, and will shape our daily work and goals for the next five years.
Spire seeks to change the social structures that maintain an unfair distribution and management of economic, social, biological, and cultural rights and resources. Human activity has harmfully affected large parts of the world’s resources. We need a shift to where human activity instead will help to rebuild and regenerate the environment and its cycle. Environment and development (both human and economic) must be seen in context, and environmentally sustainable development is therefore central to Spire's work.
POLITICAL AIMS
In a world where resources are already extremely unevenly distributed, external crises such as the climate crisis amply these inequalities. It is the poorest in our society which suffer the most from the climate crisis, of which women, indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups particularly suffer. In addition, we see that both the public debate and the political measures introduced to solve the climate crisis cause increasing polarization among the population. The responsibility for solving our problems is put on the individual, instead of the society as a whole. In order for us to be able to create a sustainable and just world, we need a system change based on holistic ways of thinking where we solve all these problems together and see them in context to each other.
A SUSTAINABLE AND JUST ECONOMY
- We need to increase public awareness of how climate change, loss of biodiversity and social inequality are all symptoms of a failed economic system, and how these challenges must be solves in context to each other.
- We must develop an alternative economic model, with suggestions to how this model can be implemented practically and politically.
- The Doughnut economic model should be implemented as a framework in Norwegian counties and municipalities.
- The measurement of Norway’s development and societal well-being shall be made on the basis of human satisfaction and welfare, as well as the condition of nature, instead of gross domestic product (GPD).
SUSTAINABLE AND JUST FOOD SYSTEMS
- Sustainable food production shall not be reduced in consideration to the climate alone. We must instead see climate, biodiversity, food security, resource use, human rights, public health and working conditions in context.
- International trade agreements should strengthen, and not hinder, the development of sustainable food systems across communities, states, and continents.
- Norwegian agricultural policy shall be based on the use of Norwegian resources with a focus on sustainable land use, good resource management and animal welfare, protection of cultural landscapes and cultural heritage, and less importation of fodder and raw materials used in fodder.
- We want more focus on climate justice for small-scale farmers and costal fishermen from a North-South perspective both nationally and internationally.
FAIR LOCAL AND GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF POWER
- National environmental regulation shall not unfairly affect citizens in rural areas and those with low income.
- Political decisions must be adapted to various local conditions and challenges. We need increased public awareness of how these various conditions and challenges, as well as the dynamics between the center and the periphery, cause unfair distribution of power and increased inequality.
- We need increased focus on climate adaptation in both urban and rural areas, nationally and internationally.
