/ WHY WE EXIST
Accelerating investments in sustainable landscapes.
Regenerative Development Group exists to help mobilize capital, capacity, and coalitions toward landscape-scale regeneration — where finance, ecology, and community meet.
Photo: Drin River at Vau i Dejës, Albania — Albinfo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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/ The context
Landscapes around the world are facing loss of livelihood, ecosystem health, and cultural identity.
Not a day goes by without urgent calls to mitigate climate change, support climate adaptations, reverse biodiversity loss, restore natural ecosystems, and support the people and organizations working to regenerate the land and uplift communities.
Despite this accelerating sense of urgency — mainstream systems still mostly reward environmentally and socially extractive practices. Major policy, business, investment, and funding models are yet to transform at the speed and scale needed to stave off accelerating loss of ecological function and to advance inclusion and well-being.
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/ A growing movement
Regenerative solutions grounded in local context, knowledge, and science are emerging everywhere.
All over the world — community members, land stewards, entrepreneurs, innovators, funders and investors are choosing a different path: they advance locally-led approaches, practices, and solutions, rooted in ecological, social, cultural, and other bioregional assets.
These practices create cycles of mutually reinforcing benefits. They restore ecosystems, revitalize communities, re-center economic activity on life-serving projects and enterprises. They value nature and culture. They develop projects and ventures that create multiple regenerative value streams.
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/ Connecting local and global
A growing movement connecting local and global actors.
Awareness
There is a growing awareness, globally, that these solutions and the change agents who advance them play a critical role in advancing a thriving future for all.
Action
Policy-makers, researchers, funders, investors, business leaders, citizens, and consumers everywhere are paying attention, taking action, and shifting their focus toward nature-positive, equitable, people-centered practices.
Opportunity
This offers land stewards, community leaders, social entrepreneurs, responsible businesses, funders, and investors everywhere the opportunity to advance models of development that are ecologically, socially, and economically regenerative.
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/ The case for acceleration
These trends are promising — but progress is still too slow and fragmented.
The gap
The promise of regenerative models of development is far from being realized. Regenerative leaders face significant resource constraints, insufficient access to relevant knowledge, innovations, and capital.
What’s needed
They need pathways to develop the organizational, financial, and technical capacity to realize the potential of their projects — and to turn ecological and social development potential into viable economic, financial, and business models.
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/ Our mission
Contributing to a nature-positive, equitable future.
Our mission is to contribute to the emergence of a nature-positive, equitable future.
We do this by developing programs, accelerating enterprises, and mobilizing financial flows to protect nature, regenerate landscapes, and develop equitable economies.
/ LET’S MAKE AN IMPACT TOGETHER
Discover what we do.
Explore how RDG designs programs, structures blended and nature-positive finance, and builds the capacity that makes regenerative work fundable and durable.
