---
id: terms/regenerative-gdp-regdp
about:
  label: Regenerative GDP (ReGDP)
  description: >-
    Blue Green Future's accounting framework that counts living ecosystems as
    productive infrastructure in GDP and on sovereign balance sheets.
  tags:
    - natural capital
    - accounting
    - gdp
    - sovereign debt
    - nature finance
term:
  aka:
    - ReGDP
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: ReGDP (landing page) | Blue Green Future
      url: 'https://bluegreenfuture.org/regdp'
    - title: Valuing A Living Nature | Natural Capital Finance | Blue Green Future
      url: 'https://bluegreenfuture.org/'
    - title: 'Session Details: Earthx2026 Congress of Conferences'
      url: >-
        https://www.events.earthx.org/Earthx26/session/4082935/from-planetary-tipping-points-to-economic-turning-point
  created: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
import:
  source: openai-linkedin-scrape 2026-10-17
  id: DT079
  kind: concept
  family: governance_and_concepts
  priority: supporting
  verified: false
  posts:
    - P097
  posters:
    - Ralph Chami
    - Blue Green Future
---
ReGDP, "Regenerative GDP", is a framework from Blue Green Future, a natural-capital finance firm whose co-founder and CEO is Ralph Chami. Its premise is that healthy ecosystems are productive economic infrastructure, and that the income they generate (carbon storage, coastal protection, fisheries, tourism, water regulation, biodiversity) should appear in economic and fiscal analysis rather than stay invisible to it. The firm's page frames the result as natural capital recognised as a sovereign asset, with consequences for public debt, debt-to-GDP, annual revenue and sovereign net worth.

The page carries four country case studies with interactive dashboards: the Bahamas (seagrass carbon revenues and sovereign debt), Indonesia (mangrove value and public debt), Panama (nature revenue and fiscal sustainability) and the Maldives (coral-related activity and taxation). Chami presented ReGDP in a keynote at EarthX 2026 on 21 April 2026.

Status: a framework and set of illustrative dashboards. Blue Green Future says the dashboards are analytical tools rather than predictions and not a substitute for country policy analysis. No methodology document or adoption by a government is stated on the pages read.