Alliance on Environment

The Alliance says the environment and the economy must be managed together. They want to stop measuring progress by economic growth alone and instead track whether people's lives and the environment are improving. They propose public ownership of electricity and water, a tax on polluters, a ban on mining in protected areas, a move toward zero waste, and support for workers whose jobs change as the economy becomes greener.

• Move towards a Genuine Progress Index alongside environmental auditing and true-cost accounting as a central measure of national progress
• Bring electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and retail into 100 percent public ownership with a focus on renewables
• Replace the Emissions Trading Scheme with a carbon tax, with revenue directed towards renewable energy, public transport, and emissions reduction
• Keep water infrastructure and services in public ownership, with stronger controls on water pollution
• Prohibit mining in national parks, conservation areas, and other protected public land
• Support a just transition to a net-zero economy, retraining workers in fossil fuel and extractive industries for new well-paid, secure jobs
• Move towards a zero-waste, circular economy including a right to repair
• Apply a polluter-pays principle requiring those responsible for environmental damage to meet the full cost of prevention and repair

Summarised neutrally from Alliance’s own official policy (as at 2026-09-21) and checked by an editor. Nothing is paraphrased without the source linked. Read the original ↗ Politika is non-partisan. Compare all parties on Environment →