Unai Pascual, Patricia Balvanera, Christopher B. Anderson, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Michael Christie, David González-Jiménez, Adrian Martin, Christopher M. Raymond, Mette Termansen, Arild Vatn, Simone Athayde, Brigitte Baptiste, David N. Barton, Sander Jacobs, Eszter Kelemen, Ritesh Kumar, Elena Lazos, Tuyeni H. Mwampamba, Barbara Nakangu, Patrick O’Farrell, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Meine van Noordwijk, SoEun Ahn, Sacha Amaruzaman, Ariane M. Amin, Paola Arias-Arévalo, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles, Mariana Cantú-Fernández, Antonio J. Castro, Victoria Contreras, Alta De Vos, Nicolas Dendoncker, Stefanie Engel, Uta Eser, Daniel P. Faith, Anna Filyushkina, Houda Ghazi, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Rachelle K. Gould, Louise Guibrunet, Haripriya Gundimeda, Thomas Hahn, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Marcello Hernández-Blanco, Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Mariaelena Huambachano, Natalia Lutti Hummel Wicher, Cem İskender Aydın, Mine Islar, Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Jasper O. Kenter, Marina Kosmus, Heera Lee, Beria Leimona, Sharachchandra Lele, Dominic Lenzi, Bosco Lliso, Lelani M. Mannetti, Juliana Merçon, Ana Sofía Monroy-Sais, Nibedita Mukherjee, Barbara Muraca, Roldan Muradian, Ranjini Murali, Sara H. Nelson, Gabriel R. Nemogá-Soto, Jonas Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Aidin Niamir, Emmanuel Nuesiri, Tobias O. Nyumba, Begüm Özkaynak, Ignacio Palomo, Ram Pandit, Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville, Luciana Porter-Bolland, Martin Quaas, Julian Rode, Ricardo Rozzi, Sonya Sachdeva, Aibek Samakov, Marije Schaafsma, Nadia Sitas, Paula Ungar, Evonne Yiu, Yuki Yoshida, Eglee Zent
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being1,2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understanding of how and why nature is (under)valued is more urgent than ever4. Notwithstanding agreements to incorporate nature’s values into actions, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)5 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals6, predominant environmental and development policies still prioritize a subset of values, particularly those linked to markets, and ignore other ways people relate to and benefit from nature7. Arguably, a ‘values crisis’ underpins the intertwined crises of biodiversity loss and climate change8, pandemic emergence9 and socio-environmental injustices10. On the basis of more than 50,000 scientific publications, policy documents and Indigenous and local knowledge sources, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) assessed knowledge on nature’s diverse values and valuation methods to gain insights into their role in policymaking and fuller integration into decisions7,11. Applying this evidence, combinations of values-centred approaches are proposed to improve valuation and address barriers to uptake, ultimately leveraging transformative changes towards more just (that is, fair treatment of people and nature, including inter- and intragenerational equity) and sustainable futures. © 2023, The Author(s).
Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Scientific Campus of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain; Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain; Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, Mexico; Instituto de Ciencias Polares, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego (ICPA-UNTDF), Ushuaia, Argentina; Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina; Global Science, WWF, San Francisco, CA, United States; Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States; Aberystwyth Business School, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom; Global Resilience Partnership, Cape Town, South Africa; School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Ecosystems and Environment Research Program, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway; Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies and Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States; University of EAN, Bogotá, Colombia; Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Oslo, Norway; Research Institute for Nature and Forest INBO, Brussels, Belgium; Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Brussels, Belgium; ESSRG Nonprofit Kft., Budapest, Hungary; Wetlands International South Asia, New Delhi, India; Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico; Department of Ecosystems and Conservation, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Culemborg, Netherlands; Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa; Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources, UNU-FLORES, United Nations University, Dresden, Germany; Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan; International Centre for Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia; Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands; Agroforestry Research Group, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia; Korea Environment Institute, Sejong, South Korea; Université Felix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Centre Suisse de Recherche Scientifique, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Económicas, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia; Departamento de Biología y Geología, Centro Andaluz de Evaluación y Seguimiento del Cambio Global (CAESCG), Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain; Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa; Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Department of Geography, Institute of Life Earth and Environment, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium; School of Business Administration and Economics & Institute for Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany; Office for Environmental Ethics, Tübingen, Germany; Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden; Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; OCP Foundation, Casablanca, Morocco; Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States; Institute of Geography, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico; Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic; Independent scholar, San José, Costa Rica; Kassel Institute for Sustainability, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany; Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany; Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice Center, Syracuse University, New York, NY, United States; Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil; Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey; Center for Sustainability Studies, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany; Ecologos Research Ltd, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom; Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, United Kingdom; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ, Bonn, Germany; Department of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; Centre for Environment & Development, ATREE, Bengaluru, India; Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Pune, India; Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, India; Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands; World Benchmarking Alliance, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States; Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico; Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, Mexico; Division of Anthropology, Geography and Development, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Brunel University, London, United Kingdom; Department of Philosophy and Environmental Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States; Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil; The Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, WA, United States; Geography Department, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Centre for Climate Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nkolbisson Yaoundé, Cameroon; Congo Basin Institute (CBI), Nkolbisson Yaoundé, Cameroon; Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany; African Leadership College (ALC), Pamplemousses, Mauritius; African Conservation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya; Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey; University of Grenoble Alpes, IRD, CNRS, INRAE, Grenoble, France; Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia; Global Center for Food, Land and Water Resources, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Global and International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada; Nicholaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland; Red de Ecología Funcional, Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Xalapa, Mexico; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany; Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany; Cape Horn International Center (CHIC), Universidad de Magallanes, Santiago, Chile; Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States; Northern Research Station, US Forest Service, Evanston, IL, United States; Aigine Cultural Research Center, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, United States; Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC, Tokyo, Japan; National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan; Laboratorio Ecología Humana, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, Venezuela