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If you are interested in (looking critically at) the European approach to sustainable finance, this Master Class is something for you. Moreover, it's a unique opportunity to meet professionals with shared concerns and questions.

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    Ik vind het een ongehoord democratisch deficit dat regeneratieve en impactbedrijven door het beleid niet gehoord worden, terwijl extractieve ondernemingen wel in overleg- en adviesorganen zetelen, en dus hefbomen hebben om het beleid te sturen. Oké, de omslag naar een regeneratieve economie vergt tijd, en misschien moet er eerst weer een catastrofe (genre covid-pandemie) gebeuren vooraleer we massaal en definitief omschakelen naar een economie die het welzijn van mens en planeet bevordert.Maar we hoeven niet op een catastrofe te wachten! Laat ons al maar beginnen met in overleg- en adviesorganen structureel een stem en zichtbaarheid te geven aan alle missiegedreven ondernemingen en organisaties die nu al sociaal en ecologisch welzijn als economisch doel omarmen.

    'Het is hoog tijd om regeneratieve bedrijven een eigen stem te geven' https://trends.knack.be

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    Being part of this co-creative process was incredibly enriching and energizing. My key takeaways: 1. The aim/goal of economics (the 'real' value to pursue) is life; you can also call it regeneration, well-being, fertile futures, human survival, etc.2. Money is a powerful means to facilitate such regenerative economic transactions; however, the way money is designed and governed today led to a means-ends reversal, so that now money (financial return on investment) is pursued as the goal while people and the planet are treated as mere "resources" for extracting financial "value" (thus undermining socio-ecological well-being).3. This flawed money design has, in turn, strengthened our deep cultural conviction - our 'mental model' - that value can (only) be expressed in monetary terms and that humans can own and control nature. 💥 This 'extractive' mental model is the root cause of our current crises; yet, it is left unchallenged in most current sustainable finance policies (susfin 1.0).🦋 So, at the heart of 'Regenerative Finance' (or susfin 2.0) is 'undoing the means-ends reversal', and serving the 'value/goal' of life again.Some thoughts on that:1. Given the extractive nature of current money, this is hard for companies at the microlevel, for if you don't constantly grow your productivity and make profits, you go bankrupt.2. Communities, however, can collectively redesign money flows, governing money as a common for their (life-aligned, regenerative) goals. At the mesolevel, money can be governed as a facilitator of flows nourishing the local/bioregional ecosystem. Think of the fire brigade... The #CommunityWealthBuilding model is a powerful example, and Scotland even has a ministry for that! So this is no longer an abstract ideal, it's happening as we speak! Those pioneers can inspire and empower us! As a community, CEC (Convention des Entreprises pour le Climat) can also co-create regenerative financial governance models!🤔 A question I'd like to explore further is the one on 'impact indicators'. We all agree that parameters for 'social and ecological well-being' are crucial, but the one on 'financial performance' is more tricky. Does it mean the capacity of your investment to 'increase itself' (so again, grow money)? Or does it mean its capacity to 'grow well-being', for example in terms of the number of times your investment has gone around in the community to multiply well-being, affecting more and more people and improving the quality of more life domains over time? Any ideas on that?A heartfelt #thankyou to the organisers and participants at CEC (Convention des Entreprises pour le Climat) for letting me be part of this learning pathway.

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    What a powerful experience at CEC (Convention des Entreprises pour le Climat) - Monde Financier today!Shifting from an extractive economy to a regenerative one can only be achieved by building partnerships and governing financial flows to ensure they serve collective needs. CEC is creating that kind of 'financial ecosystem'. I feel really privileged to have been part of that journey. 🙏

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    Maandag woonde ik het debat van Coopkracht en Smart Belgium bij over de vraag "welke manier van ondernemerschap het best een antwoord biedt op maatschappelijke uitdagingen". U leest het goed: MANIER van ondernemerschap. Dat impliceert: "er zijn meerdere manieren, en ze hebben een verschillende maatschappelijke impact". Wat jammer, dus, dat de eerste helft van het debat gewoon over "HET" ondernemerschap in Vlaanderen ging, alsof het allemaal één pot nat is. Hoeveel bedrijven er bijkomen en hoeveel er failliet gaan is goed om weten, maar wat de impact van die bedrijven op grote maatschappelijke uitdagingen was, kwam niet ter sprake. Pas in de tweede helft van de avond werd ingezoomd op de diverse manieren van ondernemen. En ja, toen gaven alle partijen toe dat ze beseffen dat missiegedreven bedrijven bij uitstek geschikte partners zijn om maatschappelijke problemen aan te pakken. Maar ze zeiden er meteen bij dat ze die bedrijven eigenlijk niet kennen. Ze horen vooral vertegenwoordigers van wat ze "klassieke" (lees: winstgedreven) bedrijven noemen. Alternatieve visies op ondernemen zijn grotendeels een blinde vlek op hun landkaart. Dat komt mede doordat coöperatieve bedrijfsvormen in het onderwijs zowat doodgezwegen worden. Van alle spin-offs van de KU Leuven is er maar één een coöperatie. Samenvattend: de overheid die maatschappelijke taken te vervullen heeft kàn daarbij geholpen worden door bedrijven die maatschappelijk welzijn tot hun missie maken. Helaas ziet het beleid dat potentieel over het hoofd, en zit ze vooral rond de tafel met bedrijven die hun sociale en ecologische kosten op de samenleving afwentelen.Ter rechterzijde was er zelfs een zekere weerstand om missiegedreven bedrijven meer aandacht te schenken; het mantra is daar dat er een 'gelijk speelveld' tussen alle bedrijven moet zijn, en de overheid zich zo weinig mogelijk met de spelregels moet moeien.Ik zou zeggen: spreek voortaan met twee woorden ! Spreek niet meer over 'ondernemerschap' als hom*ogene groep, maar over 'missiegedreven' en 'winstgedreven ondernemerschap'. Laten we dàn nog eens het gesprek voeren over welke 'manier' van ondernemerschap het meeste tot maatschappelijke missies bijdraagt, en hoe de overheid die bondgenoten beter kan ondersteunen. #dankjewel aan de jonge mensen die er tijdens de Q&A met de nodige felheid op wezen dat dat onderscheid er heel hard toe doet. Zij zijn tenslotte de ondernemers van morgen, dus hun stem is cruciaal als het over de grote uitdagingen gaat.

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    Since many of you have expressed an interest in my final paper for the Ichec Brussels Management School SuFi Master Class, I share it here.Its topic is financial literacy using a living systems approach. In other words, it proposes a framework for 'learning' to make finance sustainable.This framework combines insights from 1. Systems Thinking: essentially the system's goal (crucial!) and feedback loops that either make the system veer away from or stay on track towards that goal. 2. Process Ecology/Transition science: a system's capacity to sustain itself in changing contexts depends on creating innovative niches in the margins AND increasing the ascendency of validated niches (making them mainstream). [NB Darwin also described this: species develop mutations in response to changing contexts; successful mutations are then selected and allowed to reproduce. That's how life sustains itself.]The difficulty of scaling from a validated niche innovation to a viable (self-sustaining) project is one of the main obstacles to a swift transition, so overcoming this "Valley of Death" is crucial. I hope this paper can offer a common 'vocabulary' to reflect on how that can be done. I want to explore in more depth how communities can govern money flows to overcome the 'valley of death'. The #TurnaroundMoney project offered promising perspectives on this. However, I noticed that people who heard about #TurnaroundMoney" tended to read it as a set of 'solutions' (a 'product' like "the six keys to sustainable finance"), while its key innovation is to offer a new 'process' empowering communities to govern financial flows to serve their goals.Learning to look at finance as a flow (embedded in a complex living system) is a prerequisite for communities to create their own #TurnaroundMoney insights and leverages. That's what this paper is about. All feedback is welcome! #Thankyou Bob Ulanowicz and Sally Goerner for your inspiring insights! And a #tribute to Donella Meadows and Robin Wall Kimmerer who taught me everything about living systems.

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    What a vibrant discussion yesterday at the 4th Rencontre Elisée Reclus in Namur! "What innovations for what progress?" was the topic. It opened new perspectives, e.g. highlighting the distinction between technological and paradigm innovation, and stressing the emergent (autocatalytic, probabilistic) nature of life which cannot be fully understood within a reductionist and mechanistic paradigm. Preparing for the future means we have to create spaces for co-creation, for co-evolution with other beings on this planet.It also raised important questions. How can an R&I system increasingly controlled by extractive money become regenerative? How to empower individual researchers who 'mean well' but are caught up in the academic career machinery? https://lnkd.in/eD3KdZAa #Thankyou, Anne Goldberg, Roland Moreau, and colleagues.

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    I’m happy to share that I’ve completed my Sustainable Finance Master Class at Ichec Brussels Management School! Looking forward to receiving feedback on my final paper "Sustainable Finance Literacy: a systemic perspective".

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