Who We Are
Common Earth works in close partnership with the Commonwealth SECRETARIAT to regenerate land and ocean-based ecosystems across its 53 member nations.
Common Earth’s mission is to advance a movement of cross-sectoral collaboration to regenerate the wealth of Earth’s commons. Common Earth is a partner of the Commonwealth Innovation Hub and works in close alignment with the Commonwealth’s Charter. The organization hosts an annual Regenerative Development Convening at the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Marlborough House in London.
Common Earth emerged from a series of high-level convenings at the Commonwealth Secretariat in 2016, 2017 and 2018. These convenings, organized by the Cloudburst Foundation, brought together some of the world’s best scientists, environmentalists, economists, and policy leaders from around the Commonwealth and beyond. Critically they paved the way for the next phase of work and helped inform the strategy moving forward. Many attendees, including global leaders, have since introduced regenerative language into their communications and policy efforts. Ultimately, participants agreed to work with each other in new ways to regenerate our shared planetary home.
What We Do
Common Earth catalyses regeneration by working with the Commonwealth to educate around and deliver regenerative pilot projects across the 53 member states. The organization convenes key stakeholders at the Commonwealth Secretariat to learn about cutting-edge regenerative work and to mobilize multilateral support for it. Critically, Common Earth makes regenerative projects accessible in new ways through multimedia storytelling, art exhibitions, and public educational programs.
We are currently working on roadmaps with dozens of communities and have launched international working groups to support them.
What is Regenerative Development?
Regenerative development works from the inside out to realize the full range of unique potential in communities and places. Articulated by some the world’s most influential leaders in sustainability, it is based on the principle that development interventions must be interwoven with people and places, not imposed on them. It improves the health of societies and environments through growing local understanding of how to work with living, dynamic systems.
Regenerative development is a key framework for delivering the UN Sustainable Development Goals as it provides a point of convergence for working across the diverse but interdependent targets. It is an organizing tool for fostering the transdisciplinary collaboration required to reverse the effects of climate change.
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