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Making it easier for planet focused investors to co invest with people focused investors
Bio-cultural resilience tool, International Biosphere Trust
This tool will be a Rosetta Stone make it easier for planet focused investors to co invest with people focused investors on holistic sustainable deals that are inclusive. it should help indigenous people hold on to their land, armed with financial value extracted but not stripped from their resources and methodologies an uses their indigenous science. It will make it easier to replicate the Playa Viva deal. It's a design session. open to new pathways. We have three universities in three countries on two continents involved in the pilot and funding is coming from the Swedish government and U.S. Foundations.
commerce, indigenous, people, planet, resilience bio-cultural, Rosetta Stone
Keynote
Beginner
Shaun Paul
Tom Gilbert
Johanna MacTaggart
Per Ollsen
David Leventhal
Sarah Brooks
Kevin Jones
A partner is the Stockholm Resilience Centre
http://www.stockholmresilience.org/
and the Lake Vannern UNESCO biosphere reserve
http://www.unesco.org/mabdb/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?mode=all&code;=SWE+03
Tufts University, and the Monterey Institute's Ocean Economics department is deploying Frontier Market Scouts on the pilot in Playa Viva
While I see I was posted as a panelist. I hope my comment is not too self-serving. This topic offers power lense to consider a paradigm shift we need for holistic and systemic approaches to business and investing. Evidence of financial success that builds social and environmental resilience are abound. Powerful stories to share and learn from with formidable implications for the SoCap community.