Launching in November 2025

Dark Matter Labs, in collaboration with The Berggruen Institute, Planetary Civics Inquiry, and a host of domain experts are building a knowledge repository focused on governance of issues with planetary stakes and impacts.

The aim of this Planetary Compendium is to publish case studies and accessible analyses of planetary governance from the past and present, and into speculative futures. The compendium will attempt to reveal how governance has evolved (or struggled) to meet the entangled challenges, frames, and systems that define post-global society.

As of July 2025, the Compendium comprises twelve cases by domain experts from Open Lunar Foundation, Embassy of the North Sea, Tehanu, Interspecies Internet, among others.

They address planetary governance issues across sectors including: interspecies money; ocean self-sovereignty; glacier diplomacy, transboundary water governance; planetary institution design; Amazon biome resilience; lunar governance architectures; cloud seeding and atmospheric manipulation; planetary computing and intelligence; whale valuation for socio-ecological regeneration; Owens Valley restoration; intercity adaptation and learning infrastructures in Africa, and the intersections of planetary and human health.