Niki Frantzeskaki, Sergio Lambertucci, Edward R. Carr, Jessica Dempsey, Esmail Karamidehkordi, Asmita Sengupta, Fernanda Rojas-Marchini, Coleen Vogel, Mialy Andriamahefazafy, Wiebren Boonstra, Edgar Espinoza-Cisneros, Keisha Garcia, Kanako Morita, Valerie Nelson, Diana Ojeda, Tobias Plieninger, Andy Stirling, Kanae Tokunaga, Ruishan Chen, Camille Guibal

Zenodo | April 17, 2025

The unprecedented loss of nature over the past few decades has induced a call for transformative change towards socially-just biodiversity conservation worldwide. However, transformative change can be impeded by five overarching challenges that are systemic, pervasive, and persistent: relations of domination over nature and people, especially those that emerged in colonial eras and have persisted since; economic & political inequalities; inadequate policies & unfit institutions; unsustainable consumption & production patterns; and limited access to clean technologies alongside uncoordinated knowledge & innovation systems