We invite others to learn with us and share our learnings open source. We facilitate a Learning Network for the convening Weaving Teams of all 10 BWLs to continuously learn, build expertise and exchange best practises in facilitating a lab to enhance multi-stakeholder partnerships. Cohorts co-create and prototype a smart landscape financing platform and organise events to engage a wider range of a bioregion’s citizens to manage and monitor the assets. We support social innovators in improving their NBS business models and scalability. We help to match validated NBS that can mitigate liabilities in the region with banks, investors, and corporations to unlock large scale investment and close the financing gap for investments in nature. We co-develop the concept of ‘landscape level portfolio asset management’ for an integrated landscape approach to uptake and scale Nature-based Solutions. We introduce NBS from our international network, which we jointly validate to be just, inclusive, and participatory. Through a BWL, stakeholders grow collective leadership capacity with their local communities to drive their own systems change, using the renowned Theory U process and weaving methodology, which are detailed in our full report.īWL cohorts co-create and share practical tools and frameworks - like the 4 Returns and Drawdown framework - that help them to think and act in a more integrated and systematic way. They align on a shared vision and map the needs of their bioregions to gain a clear understanding of the root causes that drive climate change and biodiversity loss, the liabilities, the potential of NBS to reverse climate change and biodiversity loss, and the gaps in systems. We invite cohorts of 40-60 key local stakeholders (farmers, fishermen, landowners, investors, corporate leaders, shareholders, policymakers, community members, etc.) to reimagine a future for their bioregions in which they live in harmony with their environment. The ‘Bioregional Weaving Lab’ concept is a geographically grounded and carefully curated multi-stakeholder partnership process that weaves together people and solutions, equipping and helping them to organise for transformative change. This can bring us what we all want: a just and inclusive society, a greener environment with enriched biodiversity, healthier soils that capture carbon and produce abundant foods, global warming reversal and new jobs in a regenerative economy. It has the potential to leverage specific liabilities in the region - like drought, fire, and flooding risk - with NBS that can be managed and monitored by local communities and financed through risk mitigation, on a bioregional landscape scale. Data and metrics about climate and biodiversity are only meaningful when they are connected to where we live - where we can most readily take part.Ī bioregion offers a relevant business case for communities, farmers, investors and corporations. Bioregions are large enough to encompass all the biological activity and ecological processes necessary for life to sustain itself, and for local habitats and ecosystems to preserve their biological integrity. To this end, we are establishing Bioregional Weaving Labs in 10 different bioregions in Europe that build capacity and catalyse multi-stakeholder partnerships, mobilising at least 100.000 changemakers per bioregion.īioregions, defined by common ecological features, offer a perfect opportunity for us to reconnect with the ecological and cultural characteristics of the geography we live and work in, and to reimagine that landscape. Next to this, we have 10 Bioregion Ambassadors and 10 Weaving Teams ready to catalyse regeneration in 10 bioregions with usīy 2025 we want to mobilise and support 1 million changemakers who will together contribute to restoring, protecting, and regenerating 1 million hectares of land and sea in Europe, with significant and observable impact by 2030. We consist of socio-environmental entrepreneurs that design and implement Nature-based Solutions and of facilitators who create the right enabling conditions for NBS to take hold and scale. We are weaving our expertise, knowledge, resources, and teams together to offer maximum support to change leaders, citizens’ initiatives and their communities that wish to restore, protect, and regenerate the landscapes and seascapes they live and work in. We are taking collective action to ensure that high level climate and biodiversity plans become more actionable. We are the system changers in the field working directly with farmers, nature conservationists, communities and stakeholders. The Bioregional Weaving Labs (BWL) Collective is a growing assembly of 25+ international system-changing organisations, grounded in a community of practice. 1 MILLION CHANGEMAKERS REGENERATING 1 MILLION HA OF LAND & SEA IN EUROPE
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