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Roadmapping National-Scale Regeneration Working Group

Since the beginning of the Common Earth initiative, the Secretariat of the Commonwealth has had a strong interest in providing Commonwealth member nations with a process for creating regenerative road maps for their countries. This offers an unprecedented opportunity to work at national levels to create regenerative policy in support of the diverse and growing efforts to transform human relationships with our planet.

 
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There is an urgent need to leverage the governing infrastructures of these nations in order to accelerate the pace at which healing can occur, with regard to societies and economies as well as with regard to natural systems. Even where there is abundant desire and good will, these aspirations encounter roadblocks in finding the necessary expertise to craft and implement these kinds of policy and programmatic changes.

 

Supporting the development of this expertise within each participating nation is an important goal of the Regenerative Road-mapping Working Group. In addition, the working group will address itself to the critical need for a coherent, flexible, and systemic approach and road-mapping framework with the credibility that will allow nations to confidently commit to undertaking this work.

 

The current members are:

Caroline Robinson, Co-Chair 

Eduard Muller, Co-Chair 

Freya Yost 

Stuart Cowan

Ben Haggard

Constança Belchior  

Della Duncan

Jason Twill

Howard Davies

 
 
 

The initial purpose of the Regenerative Roadmapping Working Group is:

 

To reconcile for potential in order to put into motion a national level regenerative planning process that taps and reinforces the heart and genius of local place and Life as a whole

In a way that builds national capacity for regenerative regenerative consciousness, culture, future planning and work

So that the Commonwealth provides a context within which meaningful participation, rapid learning and exchange can occur internationally with regard to how to shape a healthy future given the rapidly changing conditions of the 21st Century.

 
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Scope

As part of its initial scope, the Regenerative Roadmapping Working Group will focus on addressing three time horizons for encouraging financial innovation:

Immediate acceleration – beginning with road-mapping initiatives that are already underway, provide planning support while learning from what’s working. From this, develop a general process and framework that can be adapted to use in other Commonwealth countries.


Near-term – put in place systems to provide Commonwealth nations access to the resources they will need to undertake their own road-mapping process.


Deep transformation – build the networked relationships, ongoing exchange, and institutional support that will allow policy and program innovations to be sustained and continuously evolved.


This scope will be adjusted over time as the Working Group learns together, develops additional capacities and capabilities, and builds new linkages throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. Working group members maintain a wide range of connections with important related initiatives, including those of other Common Earth Alliance working groups, and will seek to integrate activities in ways that are mutually beneficial. In addition, there will be a strong focus on nature-based solutions for sequestering green and blue carbon.