The Entropic Governance Framework (EGF) was developed independently and outside any institutional or funding mandate.
The motivation for this work arose from a growing unease with how sustainability and governance are currently framed and measured. Many prevailing mechanisms—such as carbon credits, net-zero commitments, offsets, and transfers—rely heavily on accounting conventions, temporal deferral, or spatial displacement. While these tools may serve important coordination and compliance purposes, they often struggle to engage directly with irreversibility, cumulative loss, and the long-term narrowing of future options in physical and ecological systems.
EGF does not seek to replace existing sustainability frameworks, nor does it offer a metric, optimisation model, or policy prescription. It is proposed as a conceptual discipline for examining decisions taken under constraint, particularly where consequences cannot be undone or offset after the fact.
The framework is intentionally public and provisional. It is presented to invite critical scrutiny, including the identification of conceptual weaknesses, boundary conditions, and failure modes. Any value it may have lies in sharpening questions rather than providing definitive answers.