Samantha E. Power, Leon Seefeld

Bioregional Financing Facilities

Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the face of a deepening ecological crisis, a new approach to financing regeneration is urgently needed. Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet proposes a groundbreaking solution: a network of bioregional institutions designed to empower communities and channel financial resources to grassroots regeneration. As awareness of the polycrisis grows, a wave of capital is forming that is attempting to avert further ecological, social, and economic collapse. And yet, there is a significant risk that if this capital flows through a financial architecture rooted in the same inequitable power structures and logic based on abstraction, it will simply perpetuate, and perhaps even accelerate, existing extractive processes. At this pivotal moment, the authors propose a new layer in the global financial architecture, through the creation of Bioregional Financing Facilities to serve every bioregion on Earth. Bioregional Financing Facilities can drive the decentralization of financial resource governance, the design of project portfolios for systemic change, and the transition to a regenerative economy. They have the potential to become the connective tissue between financial resources and on-the-ground regenerators. They enable integrated capital raised to flow to aggregated portfolios of regenerative projects on the ground. In return, benefits can flow back to investors in a community-determined, non-extractive way. This book lays out how this infrastructure can put financial systems in service to life. What's inside: Why we are at a turning point for the Earth and the financial sector The necessity of moving beyond "closing the nature finance gap" How we get financial resources to synergistic portfolios of bioregional regeneration projects An overview of Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) and their transformative potential Templates for four types of BFFs: the Bioregional Trust, Bioregional Venture Studio, Bioregional Investment Company, and Bioregional Bank Innovative approaches for capitalizing BFFs 12 inspiring case studies showcasing bioregional initiatives around the world A provocative call to action for a wide range of stakeholders

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The BioFi Project
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9798330370467
• Artikelnr.: 71576839

Autorenporträt

Samantha Power is the Founder and Director of the BioFi Project and the Founder and Principal Consultant of Finance for Gaia. She is a Regenerative Economist, Futurist, and Bioregionalist based in Oakland, CA on the ancestral land of the Ohlone people. Samantha has harnessed her experience working at the World Bank and in the financial sector - advising finance ministries, central banks, and investors - and is now telling a story about the need to build a new layer in the global financial architecture that decentralizes financial decision making and puts resources in the hands of people living in relationship to place. Samantha and her co-author published a book entitled, 'Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet' in June. The same day the BioFi Project launched - a collective of experts supporting bioregions around the world to design, build, and implement Bioregional Financing Facilities or 'BFFs.' The book makes the case for and explains how to shift capital to place-based regenerators in order to achieve global climate and nature-related goals.