Jules Pretty, Dennis Garrity, Hemant Kumar Badola, Mike Barrett, Cornelia Butler Flora, Catherine Cameron, Natasha Grist, Leanne Hepburn, Heather Hilburn, Amy Isham, Erik Jacobi, Rattan Lal, Simon Lyster, Andri Snaer Magnason, Jacqueline McGlade, Jan Middendorf, E.J. Milner-Gulland, David Orr, Lloyd Peck, Chris Reij, Johan Rockström, Yarema Ronish, Osamu Saito, Joanne Smith, Pete Smith, Peter Thorne, Atsushi Watabe, Steve Waters, Geoff Wells. 2025. How the Concept of “Regenerative Good Growth” Could Help Increase Public and Policy Engagement and Speed Transitions to Net Zero and Nature Recovery. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17030849
Just and fair transitions to low-carbon and nature-positive ways of living need to occur fast enough to limit and reverse the climate and nature crises, but not so fast that the public is left behind. We propose the concept of “Regenerative Good Growth” (RGG) to replace the language and practice of extractive, bad GDP growth. RGG centres on the services provided by five renewable capitals: natural, social, human, cultural, and...