An on-ramp to the Charter
Nature Futures
for Aotearoa
The Charter for the Living Commons is a long read. Start here instead: tell us what you value about nature, and we’ll surface the handful of recommendations that speak most directly to it.
The triangle is the Nature Futures Framework, an approach from the global science body for biodiversity (IPBES). It holds three ways of valuing nature in tension — for its own sake, for what it gives us, and as kin — and every point between them. There are no wrong places to stand. The framework itself took shape at a 2017 workshop in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
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Your Aotearoa
This is about what you value in nature. The Charter also asks a different question — who its protections are fair to: the generations to come, people alive now, and the other life we share the planet with. You’ll find that thread — Earth-system justice — running through the Charter itself.
Unity — the balanced centre
A summit, not a resting place
Holding all three at once is the fairest place to stand and the hardest to hold — any real decision leans. Which way do you lean?
Your mark records at balance, tipped gently toward your pick.