Nature Regeneration Tax
= NRT: A Global Capital Solution for Funding Planetary Sustainability
Description
Wlodek Bogucki:
"Pricing the missing liability: Correcting nature’s systemic mispricing
Markets excel at allocating priced resources. They fail when inputs are treated as free. Nature remains the largest unpriced factor in the global economy.
The result is an invisible subsidy for depletion — forests, soils, fisheries, and water systems drawn down without appearing on any invoice. This creates short-term profits and long-term instability, the definition of a mispriced externality.
A Nature Regeneration Tax would correct this at the point of transaction. Applied at invoice level, input-credited like VAT, and adjusted at borders, it would price ecological intensity directly through the entire supply chains into a final consumption. The burden would fall upstream, incentivising regenerative sourcing, while revenues would capitalise large-scale restoration of ecosystems critical to economic stability.
Governance matters. To avoid politicisation, proceeds would flow into a global regeneration fund overseen by scientific and indigenous stewardship, not fiscal ministries. The objective is not redistribution for its own sake, but the recapitalisation of the biosphere on which all growth depends.
This is not radical economics. It is Pigouvian pricing, applied systematically rather than symbolically."