ReFi and Regen - programming regenerative values into money
Channel: Canopy Collective
Date: 2024-03-05

About the talk
As a species, the human preoccupation with power, control, and money entrenched in patriarchal, discriminatory, and unsustainable systems; compounded by a disregard for the more-than-human world, leaves us, today, bang in the eye of interlinked planetary crises. And no more can we truly separate the web of life from the web of technology. The economic paradigm of our times forces us to work for money rather than have money work for us. This in turn breeds further complexity and conflict in shared spaces, with shared resources and interdependent relationships (biotic and abiotic). This talk introduces the premise of the current regenerative finance (ReFi) movement, via the particular case of Regen Network (Regen), toward stabilizing climate, restoring ecosystems, and instituting social justice.

About the presenter
Tamara is an environmentalist working as an independent researcher and resource person at the intersection of climate, conservation, development, and the environment. She is currently a member of groups working towards various aspects of socio-ecological regeneration both in India and abroad. She continues to mentor students and professionals of interrelated streams and writes and narrates scripts for conservation and social documentaries. She was a consultant to the UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project that sold the world’s first-ever voluntary Gold Standard carbon credits, which continuously inspired her journey of learning in nature-based solutions.

31 July 2023