Actions and actors driving transformative change for global sustainability

The urgent need for transformative change to address the intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss is widely recognized. Here, drawing on work originally conducted within the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment and using a bibliometric analysis of more than 4 million scholarly do...

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Autores: Reyes-García, Victoria|||0000-0002-2914-8055, Krug, Rainer M., Agrawal, Arun|||0000-0001-6796-2958, Benessaiah, Karina|||0000-0001-9959-554X, Bonilla-Moheno, Martha, Claudet, Joachim, Forsyth, Tim, Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro|||0000-0003-0725-4049, Gemmill-Herren, Barbara, Guibal, Camille, Goldstein, Bruce Evan, Gosnell, Hannah, Guo, Xiaona, Huntjens, Patrick, Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe|||0000-0003-1927-7635, Leventon, Julia, Santos de Lima, Letícia|||0000-0002-0268-2055, Magris, Rafael A., Miwa, Koji, Molina, José Luis|||0000-0002-2932-2690, O'brien, Karen|||0000-0002-2448-0665, Pandit, Ram|||0000-0003-4053-5694, Pereira, Laura M.|||0000-0002-4996-7234, Raab, Kristina, Scheidel, Arnim|||0000-0001-9764-685X, Tittonell, Pablo, Ugarte Lucas, Paula|||0000-0002-5779-1013, Villasante, Sebastián|||0000-0001-6296-4479, Zinngrebe, Yves
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:uabarcelona_::fc0ea85f87d9b5869d93f05c263b8509
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/327026
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1038/s41893-026-01783-1
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palabra clave:SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 13 - Climate Action
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Sumario:The urgent need for transformative change to address the intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss is widely recognized. Here, drawing on work originally conducted within the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment and using a bibliometric analysis of more than 4 million scholarly documents, we examine the actions and actors driving transformative change for global sustainability. The literature disproportionately focuses on a limited set of available actions and actors, neglecting others and overlooking their potential interactions. Notably, the actions 'changing social norms' and 'technological change' and the communication and knowledge and private sectors are frequently discussed, while actions referring to transforming the economic and governance systems and the civil society and the public sector are understudied. Moreover, actions and actors do not tend to appear together in consistent or systematic ways; instead, most action-actor combinations appear at rates similar to random chance, with only a few notable exceptions. The uneven distribution of scholarly attention may hinder the coordination and cross-sectoral coalitions required for effective transformative change. Our findings call for a more inclusive approach to research on actors and actions needed for transformative change towards a just and sustainable world, and for a greater focus on synergies between actions and actors potentially driving transformative change.

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