Situation:

Taraba State, Nigeria, and La Campagne Tropicana Resort —with support from Digital Experts Marketing and One Thriving Planet —are launching five ecotourism resorts to serve as a global model of sustainable tourism, biodiversity restoration, and cultural preservation, supported by presidential and ministerial leadership and significant land allocation for development.

Opportunity:

• Position Taraba as Africa’s ecotourism leader and attract five million visitors in five years.
• Deliver economic growth and new jobs locally, foster cultural exchange, protect biodiversity, and empower youth through education and training.
• Showcase how tourism can directly support climate solutions through conservation, carbon sequestration, and regenerative economic models.

Action:

One Thriving Planet is supporting this project by:

• Raising funds and building partnerships with investors and development agencies.
• Suggesting creative strategies and best practices for maximizing ecological impact, including sustainable site design, agri-ecotourism, and immersive cultural experiences.
• Designing and supporting the piloting of regenerative farm projects as part of agri-ecotourism, along with youth education, employment programs, and festival events that celebrate heritage and ecological stewardship.

Result:

• High-level political commitment: direct presidential and new ministerial leadership, new policies, and released development land.
• Launching world-class eco-resorts that deliver economic, cultural, and ecological benefits measured through community prosperity, ecosystem restoration, and visitor experience.
• Enhanced international access and global engagement, including new flights, diaspora programs, and multilingual support to ensure long-term global appeal and cross-cultural enrichment.
• Establishing Taraba as a transformative reference point for responsible, regenerative tourism in Africa and beyond.

Situation:

• Switzerland, like many nations, faces urgent challenges—climate change, energy, digitization, and more—amid rising polarization and slow progress on climate goals.
• On eight occasions to date, Expedition Zukunft’s Policy Sprint has successfully united all five major political parties (from Far Left to Far Right) in just four half-day sessions to co-create actionable legislative solutions on climate and other pressing national issues.
• Governments worldwide need this model to accelerate consensus on climate, biodiversity, and other critical policies.

Opportunity:

• Scale the Policy Sprint and other collaborative policymaking processes worldwide to rapidly build consensus and produce actionable legislative solutions on climate and other key issues.

Action:

One Thriving Planet is supporting this project by:

• Raising funds and building partnerships to enable global expansion of the Policy Sprint format.
• Developing strategic plans, institutional frameworks, and outreach initiatives to introduce this approach to governments and stakeholders worldwide, beginning with regions, states, and municipalities in North America and Africa, and expanding soon to all habitable continents

Result:

• In Switzerland, eight Policy Sprints have already led to 11 cross-party parliamentary motions, with seven successfully addressed—demonstrating the format’s effectiveness.
• Awarded the 2023 Innovation in Politics Award —selected by a 1,045-member international jury from 337 projects across 26 countries—for outstanding cross-party political innovation.
• Poised for global expansion, aiming to meaningfully accelerate alignment and action on climate and other policies wherever they are most needed.

Situation:
In the last two decades, Africa has consistently accounted for the smallest share of global greenhouse gas emissions of all habitable continents – fluctuating between 3.4% and 3.9%. Nonetheless, it’s widely viewed as the continent most vulnerable to climate impacts.

At the same time, Africa’s abundant material resources, exceptional diversity in myriad forms, thriving pockets of innovation and resilience, and more offer unmatched potential for transformation.

Opportunity:
Activate cross-sector and cross-border collaboration to position Africa as a global leader in human- and planetary-centered innovation.

Action:
Through the Vuka Community, One Thriving Planet launched Future Africa, convening cabinet ministers, mayors, civil society, and private-sector leaders at the Uplift Zimbabwe 2023 conference and expanding across Botswana and other nations.

Result:

• Governments in Zimbabwe and Botswana are adopting our guided frameworks for national transformation. 

• New projects in climate action, leadership development, and regenerative economics are advancing regionally coordinated implementation models.

Situation:
Sustainability and systems transformation are hindered by leadership silos, burnout, and organizational fragmentation. Many of the world’s most impactful institutions lack high-capacity leaders able to drive regenerative change.

Opportunity:
Strengthen institutions through leadership science, diversity, and collective intelligence to scale transformation from within.

Action:
One Thriving Planet’s anchor organizations deliver coaching, consulting, and team development for changemakers, including Autodesk, Tides Foundation, and the City and County of San Francisco.

Result:
Partner organizations have achieved measurable gains in collaboration, sustainability performance, and equity goals—demonstrating how aligned, resilient teams accelerate ecological and social outcomes.

Situation:
Indigenous knowledge holds the blueprint for true planetary balance, yet Indigenous voices remain underrepresented in global climate and economic systems.

Opportunity:
Recenter Indigenous worldviews—such as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Rights of Nature—as guiding frameworks for sustainability and justice.

Action:
Our Indigeneity Meets Web 3.0 links hundreds of Indigenous leaders with sustainability professionals across 1,700 cities via decentralized platforms, spreading land rematriation, rights-of-nature frameworks, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) into urban policy networks.

Result:
Expanding Indigenous-led learning and governance globally, with platforms enabling self-organized collaboration, intercultural exchange, and equitable participation in regenerative economies.

Situation:

• Large-scale industrial farming accounts for about 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions from crops and livestock on farms, while the global food system as a whole—from farming through food processing, packaging, transport, and more—accounts for roughly 37% of total emissions. It also causes roughly 80–90% of global deforestation and severely degrades soils and landscapes.
• By contrast, regenerative agriculture rebuilds soil health, restores water cycles, draws carbon back into the soil, and helps restore biodiversity—often with higher, more stable yields than conventional farming.

Opportunity:

• Namibia and Nigeria have elevated agriculture as a national priority, central to economic prosperity, ecological restoration, and food security. They asked One Thriving Planet to lead the design of their national regenerative farming models, backed by senior government, public‑sector, and traditional leaders.

Action:

• We designed regenerative farm hubs that blend Indigenous and local ecological knowledge with modern innovations, use technology wisely, and create diverse income streams from agriculture, tourism, education, and cultural experiences. 
• Our initial pilots include a 30,000‑hectare (≈74,150‑acre) network of ten regenerative farm hubs in Namibia and a 2,050‑hectare (≈5,070‑acre) regenerative corridor in Nigeria, starting with a 550‑hectare (≈1,360‑acre) cluster of three farms that move crops from local fields to regional and international markets.

Result:

• These farms are projected to lift crop yields by an estimated 15–170%, increase total economic value 2–3x through local food processing, and open access to premium markets. They also reduce dependence on added fertilizers and pesticides while restoring soils, improving water management, increasing biodiversity, and sequestering carbon.
• We are preparing to expand beyond the pilots in Namibia and Nigeria, are in dialogue with additional African countries, and are exploring partnerships to extend this model to Asia and Latin America.

Situation:
Traditional economies deplete natural and social capital, deepening inequality and ecosystem decline.

Opportunity:
Redefine prosperity through circular, climate-positive systems that regenerate both nature and community wealth.

Action:
Through Full Spectrum Capital Partners, One Thriving Planet channels over USD 100 million annually into regenerative energy, biodiversity, and decarbonization ventures—one-third community- or Indigenous-owned.

Result:
Flagship investments include a USD 30 million Indigenous-owned wind farm on Standing Rock Reservation and USD 20 million for tropical biodiversity protection—proving that regeneration delivers both strong financial and ecological returns.

Situation:
Fragmented innovation landscapes slow progress toward sustainable transitions. Communities need collaborative ecosystems to design and implement holistic solutions.

Opportunity:
Co-create regenerative innovation ecosystems linking artists, scientists, youth, and entrepreneurs to prototype climate and social innovations locally.

Action:
Our StudioLab model operates in Kansas City and Maharashtra, India, connecting universities, women farmers, and design researchers to regenerate communities through agriculture, art, and technology.

Result:
The ecosystems are producing replicable frameworks for circular economies and women-led climate-smart farming. We are exploring new potential projects in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Zimbabwe.

The infrastructure we build carries values. So does the intelligence trained inside it.

Situation:
We are scaling artificial intelligence faster than any technology in human history. The data centers powering that expansion consume the energy of hundreds of thousands of homes, draw down water supplies, raise electricity prices for surrounding communities, and project health costs into the billions — all while the communities nearest to them receive no share of what is created.
The extractive model is not simply inefficient. It is structurally misaligned. A system that depletes the conditions it depends on cannot sustain itself. And the intelligence trained inside that system inherits its architecture.

Opportunity:
AI infrastructure is being built right now, at speed, across every continent. The decisions made in the next five years will shape the character of artificial intelligence — and the distribution of its benefits — for decades.

Emerging economies have abundant renewable energy, sovereign ambition, and communities ready to participate in what gets built. The opportunity is to design the infrastructure differently from the start: powered by verified renewable energy, governed by community trusts, and structured so that the value created circulates locally rather than extracting outward.

Action:
Regenerative Infrastructure Holdings (RIH) builds Regenerative Intelligence Infrastructure™ — AI data centers and training centers designed as living systems, not extraction points.

Every RIH facility is built around four dimensions of coherence:

1. Natural Intelligence
Energy, water, land, and ecology treated as one integrated system. A facility powered by verified hydroelectric or solar energy, using closed-loop water systems that protect watersheds, designed for net-positive ecological impact.

2. Human Coherence
Biophilic design and participatory governance so that the workers, neighbors, and stewards within these systems are strengthened by them.

3. Distributed Prosperity
A Community Trust receives a contractually senior share of gross revenue before any investor distribution. The community does not wait for the project to become profitable. Its share is structural, not contingent — embedded at contract, before the first dollar is earned. A Land Trust, established before development begins, holds legally enforceable ecological covenants that govern all current and future operators. If RIH exits, the covenant stays.

4. Sovereign Futures
Nations become builders of Regenerative Intelligence Infrastructure™ — not renters of it. Host communities and governments participate in the ownership, governance, and digital capacity their infrastructure creates.

RIH's Phase 1 flagship is Nepal's first sovereign regenerative AI data center, developed in joint venture with a local renewable energy company whose founder has spent thirty years building the infrastructure Nepal runs on. The project is powered by Nepal's abundant hydroelectric resource, structured to keep value within Nepal, and designed to demonstrate that a new category of infrastructure is possible. Nepal's status as a Least Developed Country makes the project eligible for concessional financing from development finance institutions — meaning that the regenerative mission and access to patient, values-aligned capital are the same thing, not trade-offs.

Result:
Phase 1 is in development, with land rights, energy LOIs, and government relationships confirmed.

The broader ambition: to establish regenerative AI infrastructure as a replicable, financeable, community-governed model — and to demonstrate, beginning in Nepal, that the intelligence humanity is building can be formed inside conditions worthy of what we are asking it to become.