Can GDR Change How The World Measures Economic Growth? Tenzin Seldon's Big Pitch

Tenzin Seldon is a venture capitalist rethinking how economies operate in the age of climate and nature breakdown. She speaks to NDTV at the Asia Visionary Summit 2026 and proposes that GDP sit alongside GDR—or “Gross Domestic Regeneration”—a framework that measures and values restoration rather than extraction. This week, Tenzin Seldon has been named to the 2026 TIME100 Most Influential Climate Leaders List. Joining her in this exclusive conversation on NDTV is Ambassador Curtis S Chin who served as U.S. Ambassador to the ADB from 2007 to 2010, appointed across both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. Gross Domestic Regeneration (GDR) is an alternative economic framework - developed by Climate Investor and Pulse Fund founder Tenzin Seldon that measures national and corporate progress by what an economy restores rather than what it produces or extracts.