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<p>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.</p>

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Actions and actors driving transformative change for global sustainability

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  • 发表日期：

    2026年2月27日

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  • Victoria Reyes-García,
  • Rainer M. Krug,
  • Arun Agrawal,
  • Karina Benessaiah,
  • Martha Bonilla-Moheno,
  • Joachim Claudet,
  • Tim Forsyth,
  • Lucas A. Garibaldi,
  • Barbara Gemmill-Herren,
  • Camille Guibal,
  • Bruce Evan Goldstein,
  • Hannah Gosnell,
  • Xiaona Guo,
  • Patrick Huntjens,
  • Chinwe Ifejika Speranza,
  • Julia Leventon,
  • Letícia Santos de Lima,
  • Rafael A. Magris,
  • Koji Miwa,
  • José Luis Molina,
  • Karen O’Brien,
  • Ram Pandit,
  • Laura Pereira,
  • Kristina Raab,
  • Arnim Scheidel,
  • Pablo Tittonell,
  • Paula Ugarte-Lucas,
  • Sebastian Villasante,
  • Yves Zinngrebe

摘要

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.