Blueprints overview

Content development

Our Blueprints represent the core of r3.0’s knowledge creation, with the goal of identifying the gap between current practice / ambition and necessary progress (based on scientific realities and ethical imperatives) with recommendations on how to fill those gaps. The first phase of Blueprint development (2016-2018) focused on four fields (Reporting, Accounting, Data, and New Business Models) with a fifth Blueprint synthesizing and integrating the other four into an implementation framework (Transformation Journey). The second phase of Blueprint development (2019-2021) focuses on Sustainable Finance and Value Cycles, with other fields to follow. The Blueprints build the “engine” of r3.0’s work-ecosystem, generating the content needed and defining recommended solutions in an iterative manner to fuel innovation and systemic change. Blueprint Lead Authors convene Working Groups of 20+ international experts in a 12-to-18-month process gathering state-of-the-art research, best practices, innovative approaches and co-created recommendations that feed into two Exposure Drafts of the Blueprint. The Working Group reviews each Exposure Draft via an In-Person Working Group Meeting and a Virtual Dialogue (with a Public Comment period added during the second round), after which the Lead Author revises each Blueprint into a Final Report. In a dynamic process of content dissemination and feedback gathering, the different Blueprints are iteratively updated in 2 year cycles.


Blueprint 1

Reporting – A principles-based approach to reporting that spurs the emergence of a green, inclusive & open economy

Blueprint 2

Accounting – Laying the foundations for future-ready reporting

Blueprint 3

Data – Data integration, contextualization & activation for multicapital accounting

Blueprint 4

New Business Models – Integral business model design for catalyzing regenerative and distributive economies

Blueprint 5

Transformation Journey Program – A step-by-step approach to organizational thriveability and system value creation

Blueprint 6

Sustainable Finance – Mapping the shift from degenerative, extractive finance to regenerative, sustainable finance

Blueprint 7

Value Cycles – Re-examining value to shift from shareholder value to system value and from linear value chains to circular value cycles

Blueprint 8

Funding Governance for Systemic Transformation (FGST)

Blueprint 9

Educational Transformation