At the moment, we see old systems coming unraveled but our future ways of living and working are not yet clear. It’s helpful to reflect on paradigms that focus on creating the systemic health and wellbeing we know is needed for humans and the planet we live on to thrive. Happy to have had the opportunity to co-author this article for the Environmental Peacebuilding Association’s Gender Interest Group, together with Emilia Stark.

It was a privilege to co-host this meetup on regenerative approaches at ImpactFest 2024 with talented colleagues from Oxfam Novib, the Hague Academy for Local Governance, the Hague Humanity Hub, and LG Sonic. We had an excellent group of participants including entrepreneurs, policy makers, investors and students - all of whom contributed to a creative discussion of what regenerative principles mean in practice.

Thanks to The Hague Academy for Local Governance for the invitation to facilitate a learning session on regenerative governance, focused on reimagining governance based on the qualities of thriving ecosystems.

The SDG Traineeship offers students and young professionals an opportunity to contribute to sustainable business and entrepreneurship. An initiative by SDG House and TheRockGroup, the program helps to accelerate the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals in the public and private sector. In 2022, Continua and the Climate Governance Commission co-hosted a team of trainees who explored regenerative approaches to governance as a cross-cutting enabler of the SDGs and a missing link in SDG 16.

The peace & justice café is The Hague Humanity Hub’s premier networking event series for cross-sectoral connection and collaboration for a more peaceful and just world. This event brings together peacebuilders, justice innovators, researchers, humanitarians, impact entrepreneurs, policy makers and other changemakers from The Hague and around the world.

At Europe’s biggest impact meetup in The Hague, Continua hosted a roundtable on “Giving Earth a Seat at the Table,” or new approaches to negotiations which can give nature a more direct voice in processes from public policy development to peace negotiations.