Actors
Organisations, networks, and initiatives building pieces of the planetary governance movement.
Syntropic farming education and practice platform founded by Ernst Gotsch, promoting regenerative agroforestry systems through training, demonstration farms, and a global practitioner network.
Brazil / Global
Global multi-stakeholder coalition of governments, research institutions, civil society and private sector actors advocating food system transformation through agroecology's 13 core principles.
Global
European association advancing agroecology through transdisciplinary research, farmer-to-farmer knowledge exchange, and policy engagement across the EU.
Europe
Global multi-stakeholder network operating the International Water Stewardship Standard, engaging industry, civil society and governments in collective water governance.
Global
Estonian-Nordic forest carbon credit platform using satellite imagery and AI-driven growth models for transparent monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of forest carbon projects. Launched in Sweden 2025 via Treebula partnership.
Estonia / Sweden
Specialized environmental foundation focused on ecological restoration and preservation of the Baltic Sea, bridging scientific theory and practical implementation through research, policy advocacy, and knowledge dissemination.
Stockholm, Sweden
UK-based research foundation pioneering scientific research into psychedelics and consciousness, while advocating evidence-based drug policy reform globally.
UK
Canadian foundation bridging blockchain technology with UNFCCC climate policy, convening governments, NGOs and Indigenous leaders to explore transparent and interoperable carbon accounting infrastructure.
Canada
World Game legacy. Design science challenges. Funding possibility.
USA / Global
Think tank developing the theory and practice of regenerative economics, publishing the '8 Principles of a Regenerative Economy' framework and the Finance for a Regenerative World paper series.
USA
Canadian think tank conducting research on international governance, digital economy, and global security, with focus on reforming multilateral institutions for contemporary challenges.
Canada
Estonian civic tech non-profit developing a free, open-source digital participation platform for participatory democracy. Founded in 2015 from environmental activism movements, enables communities to discuss, deliberate, and vote on decisions.
Estonia
Decentralized network of individuals, organizations, and public sector entities leveraging digital technology for public benefit. Closely intertwined with Open Knowledge Sweden.
Sweden
Multi-stakeholder initiative providing open, blockchain-based metadata infrastructure to prevent double counting of carbon credits across registries, linking Verra, Gold Standard and national registries through interoperable data layers.
Global
MIT-affiliated nonprofit running the World Climate Simulation — a role-playing negotiation game putting participants in a fictitious UN climate summit, backed by the En-ROADS systems dynamics model providing real-time feedback on policy choices. Used in 100+ countries.
USA
US-based coalition of 90+ frontline community organisations and support groups building a just transition away from extractive systems through community-led governance and regenerative economies.
USA
Politically independent non-profit network uniting 28 environmental organizations across 11 Baltic Sea countries. Won Nordic Council Nature and Environment Prize for model approach to uniting environmental bodies across geopolitical divides.
Uppsala, Sweden (Secretariat) / Baltic Region
Web3 development lab building institutional ReFi technology. Core technical partner for Kolektivo Framework and tokenised ecological assets.
Global
Campaigning for UN Parliamentary Assembly. Global direct democracy.
Global
Independent NGO and physical gathering place in Copenhagen functioning as a DIY workshop and development platform for democratic innovation. Co-founded by leadership of We Do Democracy.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Independent think tank and policy institute focusing on societal transformation, foresight, and long-term governance. Bridges foresight frameworks and practical policymaking.
Helsinki, Finland
Swedish worker-owned cooperative specializing in design and development of methodologies for political and democratic innovation. Executed the historic Swedish Citizens' Assembly on Climate in 2024.
Sweden
Legal advocacy organisation advancing rights of nature through drafting legislation, supporting court cases, and developing the Universal Declaration of River Rights.
USA / Global
Largest social science network on governance and global environmental change.
Global
Global movement building community-led ecosystem restoration projects from Brazil to Morocco, connecting local action with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
Global
Max Valentin's democracy board game. Tested in Zambia with real mayors.
Sweden / Zambia
Immersive theatre experience in Stockholm disguised as a transcendence clinic. Visitors surrender phones, don robes, and undergo a multi-step experiential journey blending salon aesthetics with mythological narrative. Founded by the character Hades.
Stockholm, Sweden
Pioneering Swedish farm and learning site serving as official Savory Hub in Sweden. Over two decades of holistic management practices for soil regeneration. Driving force behind Nordic Network for Regenerative Agriculture.
Sweden
Environmental non-profit dedicated to facilitating food system transition by directing funds and resources toward regenerative farming projects in the Nordic region. Launched Top 50 Farmers initiative.
Denmark / Pan-Nordic
Statutory body established by the Well-being of Future Generations Act, the world's first independent commissioner mandated to advocate for the interests of future generations in government decisions.
Wales / UK
AI-powered forest management platform providing satellite-derived insights on forest health, carbon stocks, and biodiversity metrics to support data-driven conservation decisions.
UK
UK-based foundation advancing earth jurisprudence, seed sovereignty, and community ecological governance across Africa and South America. Pioneers of the 'earth jurisprudence' legal-philosophical framework.
UK / Africa / South America
International network advancing rights of nature through legal frameworks, hosting International Rights of Nature Tribunals, and supporting community-led campaigns for ecosystem legal personhood.
Global
The world's first global citizens' assembly, bringing together randomly selected people from across the world to deliberate on the climate and ecological crisis. Presented the People's Declaration at COP26 in 2021.
Global
Swedish foundation offering major prizes for global governance reform proposals, funding research on existential risks and planetary commons, and building networks for institutional innovation.
Sweden
International research network hosted by the Stimson Center, producing annual Global Governance Innovation Reports and connecting researchers working on multilateral system reform.
USA / Global
International alliance coordinating rewilding efforts across continents, advocating for rewilding as climate policy and bridging biodiversity and climate agendas.
Global
Decentralised simultaneous design events worldwide. Olle was co-initiator.
Global
Organisation creating experiential and world-building workshops that engage communities in radical imagination about governance futures, using art, illustration, and comic books to envision equitable decision-making.
USA
National network supporting community land trusts and shared equity housing, advancing community ownership models that keep land in common stewardship.
USA
International Institute for Environment and Development research programme on biocultural heritage, bridging indigenous knowledge systems, biodiversity conservation, and community rights.
UK / Global
Interdisciplinary research organization investigating long-term societal threats and living conditions of future generations, focusing on climate ethics, sustainable development, and social dilemmas.
Stockholm, Sweden
50+ year old futures research institute running experiential futures training, foresight research, and large-scale public forecasting exercises combining gameplay with futures thinking.
USA
EU-funded Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies, connecting organisers, researchers, and policymakers working on climate citizens' assemblies across Europe.
Europe
Economy with social floor and ecological ceiling. Framework for the Assembly.
Global / Amsterdam
AI platform building autonomous agents for mission-driven individuals and teams. Agents hold direction over time, act independently, remember context, and produce real-world outputs — designed for changemakers, sensemakers, and collaborative projects.
Sweden
Soil health advocacy NGO producing documentary films, running farmer training programmes, and building public awareness of regenerative agriculture as a climate solution.
USA
Paris-based institute developing educational approaches for planetary citizenship, running futures learning labs on anticipatory governance and connecting education with sustainability transformation.
France
Swedish academic megagame project at Linköping University simulating regional climate transformation 2020-2100, using SMHI forecast data to create participatory governance simulations.
Sweden
Berlin-based nonprofit developing open-source digital participation tools including Adhocracy, enabling liquid democracy and deliberative processes for governments and civil society.
Germany
International community hub for megagame design and play, connecting designers and organisers of large-scale multi-player simulation games that blend strategy, diplomacy, and governance.
Global
US-based network of megagame organisers collaborating on large-scale simulation game design, production, and community building across North America.
USA
Research collective studying and building interoperable governance tools for online communities, exploring governance games and tool experimentation across digital and physical spaces.
USA / Global
Cross-border initiative funded by Nordic Innovation exploring joint Nordic blockchain ecosystem, targeting lifestyle and design industries for circular business model transition and European Product Passport compliance.
Pan-Nordic (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark)
Coalition of four leading democracy organizations across Scandinavia: We Do Democracy (Denmark), Sitra (Finland), Digidem Lab (Sweden), and SoCentral (Norway). Accelerating the deliberative wave across the Nordic region.
Pan-Nordic
Italian design studio creating immersive LARP experiences explicitly for social change, running large-scale educational and political LARPs across Europe.
Italy
Open-source geospatial data management and analysis platform enabling governments and researchers to process and analyse satellite earth observation data at national scale.
Global
Community hub and publication devoted to peace, conflict, humanitarian, and development simulations and serious games for education, training, and policy analysis.
Global
Leading US organisation advancing participatory budgeting as a democratic practice, having supported over 400 PB processes and helped allocate hundreds of millions in public funds through direct citizen decision-making.
USA
Global hub for participatory democracy connecting practitioners and governments, hosting the Public Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival, and providing tools and guides for democratic innovation.
Global
Engberg's flow architecture for land stewards. Three-stream model, Ostrom-based.
DK / UG / MA / PK
Global consortium of 400+ universities, NGOs, and government entities advancing planetary health — the interdisciplinary framework linking human health outcomes to planetary ecosystem changes.
Global
Research institute founded by Glen Weyl advancing plural technology — collaborative tools for cooperation across difference, including quadratic voting/funding, plural money, and decentralised identity systems.
USA / Global
Global regenerative finance community hub providing media, research, builder cohorts, and ecosystem mapping connecting ReFi projects across blockchain and ecological domains.
Global
Global decentralised alliance of place-based pilot projects supporting regenerative community development, using web3 governance tools (via SEEDS) to coordinate local food forests, ecovillages, and cooperative land projects.
Global
Pan-European rewilding initiative operating across 10+ landscapes, reintroducing wildlife, supporting nature-based economies, and running the European Rewilding Network connecting 100+ local initiatives.
Europe
Non-profit organization and official Swedish partner of Rewilding Europe, focused on restoring and rewilding the vast natural landscapes of northern Sweden including the Nordic Taiga demonstration area of over 3 million hectares.
Umea, Sweden / Swedish Lapland
Non-profit advocating for recognition of nature's inherent rights within Swedish law, part of global movement for Earth jurisprudence. Also known as Naturens Rattigheter.
Sweden
Research and design practice developing methodologies for creating contemporary secular rituals, providing toolkits and frameworks for bringing meaning into experience and service design.
USA
Voluntary NGO promoting Sami rights and interests across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Permanent participant in the Arctic Council representing over 100,000 Sami people.
Karasjok, Norway / Sapmi (Regional)
Estonian startup creating nature-backed digital tokens (MERIT) that represent verified ecosystem services, building an economic system where preserving nature is more profitable than destroying it.
Estonia
Independent public fund in Finland promoting democracy, participation, and sustainability. Primary catalyst for the deliberative wave in Finland, funding large-scale citizens' panels and assemblies.
Helsinki, Finland
Norwegian organization and partner in the Nordic Deliberation network, contributing to the pan-Nordic deliberative democracy initiative.
Norway
Global nonprofit providing open-source training, resources, and community for sociocratic (consent-based) governance, supporting cooperatives, communities, and organisations in implementing distributed decision-making.
USA / Global
UK-based organisation promoting and running citizens' assemblies selected by sortition (random selection), having facilitated over 100 stratified random selections for democratic bodies.
UK
HSML — making physical space programmable with digital rules.
Global
Knowledge platform and network promoting steward-ownership as an alternative corporate model where companies are self-owned, profits serve purpose, and control stays with active stewards rather than passive investors.
Europe
Award-winning speculative design studio creating immersive installations and experiential futures that make abstract challenges like climate change tangible through embodied experience.
UK / India
Hamburg-based institute running a dedicated Planetary Governance programme bringing together researchers, practitioners, and artists to develop new frameworks for governing planetary challenges.
Germany
New York-based community organisation using Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed methods for civic engagement, running participatory theatre workshops that explore governance and social justice through embodied performance.
USA
Web3 infrastructure bringing carbon credits on-chain, enabling transparent and programmable carbon markets through tokenisation of verified environmental assets.
Global
Bowman, Waern et al. LARP + democratic deliberation research.
Sweden (Gotland)
Swedish strategic innovation programme for climate-neutral cities by 2030. Collaborates with Dark Matter Labs on System Demonstrators in Lund and Stockholm.
Sweden
Leading Nordic consulting agency and social enterprise specializing in deliberative democracy, democratic innovation, and citizens' assemblies. Founding partner of Nordic Deliberation.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Organisation continuing Buckminster Fuller's World Game vision, running collaborative planetary resource simulation workshops that challenge participants to 'make the world work for 100% of humanity'.
USA