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Investing in Regeneration: Transforming Planning and Finance through Systems Thinking

Investing in Regeneration: Transforming Planning and Finance through Systems Thinking

著者： Monica A. Altamirano de Jong
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What if finance could be the carrot that pulls us toward a regenerative future? Investing in Regeneration is a podcast about changing how we understand, plan, and finance projects — unpacking real deals and initiatives to show how money can move differently, and why that matters for climate action, nature restoration, and social justice.

Each episode takes you inside a real transaction or initiative through three lenses:

1. Understanding the context and theory of change

  1. Planning the deal: how it originated, who was involved, and what it took to bring it together
  2. Financing: the instruments, structures, blended components, and lessons that made it possible (or nearly didn't).

We bring together the people who are actually making these deals happen: financiers and fund managers sitting alongside project developers, community leaders, and indigenous voices. The providers and the recipients of finance, in the same conversation.

Because the gap between those two worlds is exactly where the most important knowledge lives, and where the biggest systemic barriers hide.

The podcast is built around a simple but powerful idea: the three revolutions we need aren't just technological or political. They are revolutions in understanding — how we read and value complex systems; in planning — how we originate deals that work for people and planet; and in finance — how capital is structured, de-risked, and deployed to unlock regenerative outcomes at scale.

Listeners are leaders in finance, development, infrastructure planning, policy, and mission-driven organizations who are tired of siloed thinking and hungry for practical models. You'll hear about nature-based solutions, water and soil restoration, public-private-community partnerships, blended finance structures, and the kind of innovations that rarely make it into mainstream investment conversations — but urgently need to.

This is not a podcast about theory. It's about practice: the origination story, the partnerships forged, the financial architecture, the friction that had to be overcome, and the honest lessons guests would share with anyone trying to replicate or scale what they've built.

Hosted by Mónica Alejandra Altamirano, Investing in Regeneration bridges the gap between bottom-up changemakers and top-down decision-makers — because systemic change only happens when both are in the room.

If you believe regenerative investment is not only necessary but possible, this podcast is for you.

2026 Monica A. Altamirano de Jong 個人ファイナンス 生物科学 科学 経済学
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  • From Impact Investing to Regenerative Investing: Co-Investing with Living Systems

    From Impact Investing to Regenerative Investing: Co-Investing with Living Systems
    2026/07/03

    In this episode of Investing in Regeneration, Mónica Altamirano de Jong sits down with Sidney Cano - serial regenerative entrepreneur, investor, innovator, and lifelong researcher of regenerative investing - to explore one of the most profound paradigm shifts in finance today: the transition from investments in regeneration to truly regenerative investing.

    Drawing on nearly 15 years of experience in business innovation, entrepreneurship, and investing - and grounded in hands-on experimentation with syntropic agriculture, watershed restoration, and community finance in Mexico - Sidney unpacks why investing is not a transaction but a continuum, why there is no such thing as regenerative projects (only regenerative work within living systems), and how finance, when placed in right relationship with economy and investing, can become a force for the emergence of economies of life. From care holders to co-investors, from financial structures to evolving ecosystems, this conversation challenges everything we think we know about where money should go, and why.

    ▶️ From Impact Investing to Regenerative Investing: Co-Investing with Living Systems

    00:00:00 Introduction to Investing in Regeneration

    00:01:10 Introducing Sidney Cano: Regenerative Entrepreneur & Lifelong Researcher

    00:03:12 The Paradigm Shift: From Investments in Regeneration to Regenerative Investing

    00:06:16 Syntropic Agriculture, Living Systems & the Role of the Co-Investor

    00:13:00 Why Investors Must Humble Down and Learn With Nature

    00:16:29 Sidney's Journey: From Education to Regenerative Investing

    00:24:39 The Nested Framework: Economy, Investing & Finance

    00:33:22 Deal Origination Reimagined: From Stakeholders to Care Holders

    00:36:53 The Acatlan Case: Farmers, Digital Nomads & Regenerative Co-Investment

    00:47:04 Lake Chapala: A Long-Term Watershed Regeneration Investment

    00:52:41 How Regenerative Investment Structures Differ from Traditional Deals

    00:58:03 Removing Finance from the Center of Decision-Making

    00:59:04 What One Shift Would You Drive Tomorrow?

    Notable Quote:

    “We have to remove financing from the center of all our decision-making. The decision-making has to come from the understanding of our right relationship with the ecosystems — and then bring in financing resources in the right position and the right time. Because you can have tons of money and still have no life.” — Sidney Cano

    Connect with Sidney:

    📱 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidney-cano-1b0a1813/

    💻 Substack: Towards an Economy of Life

    Connect with Mónica:

    📱 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/altamiranomonicaa/

    💻 Website: https://altamira-regen.com/

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    1 時間 3 分
  • Nature Finance at Scale: Lessons from Europe’s Natural Capital Finance Facility

    Nature Finance at Scale: Lessons from Europe’s Natural Capital Finance Facility
    2026/06/19

    In this episode of Investing in Regeneration, Mónica Altamirano de Jong sits down with Stephen Hart, Principal Advisor for Nature and Water at the European Investment Bank (EIB), to explore the evolution of nature and climate adaptation finance in Europe.

    Drawing on his experience leading the Natural Capital Finance Facility (NCFF), Stephen reflects on more than a decade of experimentation in biodiversity finance, nature-based solutions, and water resilience investments. Together, they unpack what worked, what did not, and why financing nature requires much more than innovative financial instruments.

    From funding gaps and ecosystem services to nature credits, water resilience, and landscape-scale restoration, this conversation explores the structural changes needed to move nature finance from isolated success stories to mainstream investment.

    ▶️ Nature Finance at Scale: Lessons from Europe’s Natural Capital Finance Facility

    00:00:00 Introduction to Investing in Regeneration

    00:04:06 The Origins and Theory of Change Behind the NCFF

    00:13:11 From Financial Engineering to Funding Fundamentals

    00:18:05 Expanding the Scope of Nature Investments

    00:22:28 Stephen’s Journey into Nature and Finance

    00:28:42 How Nature and Adaptation Investments Are Sourced

    00:37:16 Financing Nature: Lessons from the NCFF Structure

    00:48:10 Building Revenue Models for Nature Restoration

    00:50:51 Reducing Transaction Costs in Ecosystem Restoration

    00:55:06 Measuring Success Beyond Financial Returns

    01:00:16 The Limits of Traditional Banking for Nature

    01:02:55 Balancing Nature Restoration, Climate Adaptation, and Human Needs

    01:08:28 What Needs to Change to Finance Nature at Scale

    Notable Quote:

    “When we say we're investing in nature, you can say we're trying to, at the end of this, create biodiversity, create biological growth, or connectivity, but the investing level ultimately comes down to a social and economic level that lies on top of it. That is really where you can create things that were not there before.” - Stephen Hart

    Connect with Stephen:

    📱 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stephen-d-hart

    💻 Website: https://www.eib.org/en/stories/climate-change-biodiversity

    Connect with Mónica:

    📱 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/altamiranomonicaa/

    💻 Website: https://altamira-regen.com/

    Produced by Ideablossoms
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    1 時間 11 分
  • Brazil’s Water & Sanitation Reform: Achieving Universal Access Through Governance & Investment

    Brazil’s Water & Sanitation Reform: Achieving Universal Access Through Governance & Investment
    2026/05/22

    In this episode of Investing in Regeneration, Mónica Altamirano de Jong sits down with Ana Carolina Argolo, Director at Brazil’s National Water and Sanitation Agency (ANA), to explore one of the most ambitious institutional reforms in Latin America’s infrastructure sector: Brazil’s new water and sanitation framework.

    Together, they unpack how Brazil is moving from a fragmented and uncertain system toward a coordinated, investment-oriented model designed to achieve universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2033. Ana explains how regulatory clarity, regional coordination, and long-term planning are helping unlock billions in private investment while strengthening public accountability, social inclusion, and environmental resilience.

    From public-private collaboration to place-based investment blueprints, this episode reveals why water governance -by bringing all actors in right relationship with each other- is ultimately about building institutions capable of sustaining long-term resilience beyond political cycles.

    ▶️ Brazil’s Water & Sanitation Reform: Building Universal Access Through Governance & Investment

    00:00:00 Introduction to Investing in Regeneration

    00:05:59 Brazil’s New Water & Sanitation Framework

    00:09:18 The Role of the Private Sector in Universal Access

    00:12:09 The Theory of Change Behind the Reform

    00:15:08 Ana’s Journey into Water Governance

    00:20:43 Coordinating Stakeholders Across the Investment Cycle

    00:25:25 ANA’s Expanded Regulatory Mandate

    00:30:44 Lessons Learned from Six Years of Reform

    00:34:35 Financing Models, PPPs & Investment Structures

    00:41:30 Water, Human Dignity & Economic Resilience

    00:46:05 Standardizing Principles Without Homogenizing Realities

    00:50:38 Beyond the Public vs Private Debate

    Notable Quote:

    “ Brazil is a continental country with very unequal realities, so implementing capacity is still uneven across the regions in Brazil. But what is also important is that the sector now has a clearer direction, a stronger institutional coordination, and long-term targets that are helping to align public and private actors around a common agenda.” - Ana Carolina Argolo

    Connect with Ana:

    📱 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-carolina-argolo/

    💻 Website: https://www.gov.br/ana/en

    Connect with Mónica:

    📱 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/altamiranomonicaa/

    💻 Website: https://altamira-regen.com/

    Produced by Ideablossoms
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    55 分
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