Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet
A first-of-its kind study, which makes the case for the development of a new structure to support the decentralization of finance needed to enable every bioregion on Earth to fund its transition to a regenerative economy.
Report link: BioFi Project (2025)
As the awareness of the current polycrisis grows, actors from across the financial sector are beginning to direct financial capital towards biocultural regeneration. While this is a promising trend, there is growing concern that if these resources flow through the existing financial architecture, they could lead to further commodification, privatization, financialization, and centralization of natural assets and wealth.
Therefore, closing the "nature finance gap" alone is not sufficient. Where those resources are spent, how financing is structured, and who gets to make decisions are as important as the quantum of capital needed to build a regenerative future. In particular, how those resources support the transformation of systems, relationships, and worldviews will determine whether they are successful in addressing the ecological crisis that we collectively face.
Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) offer a way forward to support the decentralization of financial resource governance, the design of project portfolios for systemic change, and the transition to a regenerative economy at the bioregional scale. BFFs have the potential to become the connective tissue between financial resources and on-the-ground regenerators by enabling catalytic capital to flow to aggregated portfolios of systemically coordinated and supported regenerative projects on the ground.
Lead authors: Samantha Power, BioFi and Lee Seefeld, Dark Matter Labs (DML)
Advisors: Stuart Cowan (BFI), Edward West (Applied Alchemy), Indy Johar (DML), Raj Kalia (DML), Jan Hania (Biome Trust), Matthew Monahan (Ma Earth Trust), Karl Burkart (One Earth), Justin Adams (Ostara)