In Old Icelandic, “hagrað” meant “wise counsel”.
These days, Hagrað is the PHGD brand for interventions to support public and private institutions in transforming their practices towards Earth regeneration.
Incorporated as a legally independent subsidiary of PHGD in 2020, Hagrað merged with PHGD in 2026 to achieve financial and operating synergies. But the ambition hasn’t changed.
The Hagrath Vision: Making Peace with the Earth
Consulting
Training
Working with the innovative protocols developed under the Hagrað brand, PHGD provides clients with a comprehensive approach, from benchmarking the starting point against evidence-informed good practices to designing contextualized regenerative solutions.
Rethinking mobility, waste management and architecture in a city? Reimagining an industrial supply chain to replace unsustainable raw materials with regenerative alternatives? Reshaping rural spaces around regenerative agriculture, decentralized energy and new patterns of employment?
We can help you invent it.
Hagrað consulting services are supplemented by on-the-ground training to integrate transformation into institutional reality.
Working with its partner universities and international network of associated consultants, Hagrað offers three levels of training:
- Short courses introducing, over 1 to 3 days, the concepts and methods of regeneration.
- In-depth institutional capacity-building, involving 6 3-day interventions over 6 months.
- Bespoke training for the specific needs of any institution.
An Early Project That's Still Relevant : the Earth Pass
Despite international commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, there is a fundamental mismatch between financial flows and development needs. Investment migration is a lever to address this problem.
In 2021, Hagrað – then still operating as a PHGD subsidiary – developed the innovative Earth Pass scheme, which mobilizes the notion of jus doni to achieve regeneration by realigning finance with development.
Participant States provide investors with an Earth Pass, granting nationality or residence) conditional on consistency of investor mobility with specified regenerative goals monitored by transparent, certified methods. It’s still possible, and still relevant.