Step-by-step review

A: Bring together a team from across the organisation, including external stakeholders.

B: Where have we come from? 

• How have our activities over time since our origins contributed to the Earth crisis? Consider the extraction of nature; exploitation of people; or historic Greenhouse Gas emissions. This might include previous forms of your organisation, or the legacy of its founders, or what you as an individual have been privileged to achieve because of access to resources. 
• What is our responsibility? Consider the rights of affected peoples, future generations and more-than-human beings in this. It might be that you or your organisation are more affected, so that your responsibility is to be raising awareness and calling for reparations. 

C: What are we doing now?  

• Gather evidence of what you’re doing already:
  • What are we doing well on? 
  • What are our capacities, in terms of people, your skills and knowledge in-house and in your networks?
  • Where are we weak in terms of our sustainable practices and adaptation to impacts? 
• Try to consider the urgency, scale and multi-layered nature of the crisis, and don’t only use carbon emissions as a measurable proxy for effective action. 

D: Where are we going?

• What are the main resources we can use to make changes? Bear in mind that environmental actions can save money too. What money, expertise and time can we put towards this, and what can we salvage or reuse? 
• What scale of change is manageable and suitable for our organisation, given our historic contribution to harm?