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{"title":"Involving citizens in monitoring the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework","authors":"Finn Danielsen, Natasha Ali, Herizo T. Andrianandrasana, Andrea Baquero, Umai Basilius, Pedro de Araujo Lima Constantino, Katherine Despot-Belmonte, Per Ole Frederiksen, Maxim Isaac, PâviâraK Jakobsen, Helen Klimmek, Abisha Mapendembe, Han Meng, Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt, Seak Sophat, Rodion Sulyandziga, Anne L. S. Virnig, Di Zhang, Neil D. Burgess","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01447-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01447-y","url":null,"abstract":"The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and its monitoring framework aims to reverse the decline of nature. The GBF tasks governments to report progress towards 23 targets and four goals but also “invites Parties and relevant organizations to support community-based monitoring and information systems and citizen science” to improve information for decision-making and build support for conservation efforts throughout society. We assessed how Indigenous Peoples, local communities and citizen scientists and professional scientists can help monitor the GBF. Of the 365 indicators of the GBF monitoring framework, 110 (30%) can involve Indigenous Peoples, local communities and citizen scientists in community-based monitoring programmes, 185 (51%) could benefit from citizen involvement in data collection and 180 (49%) require scientists and governmental statistical organizations. A smaller proportion of indicators for GBF targets are amenable to citizen monitoring than for the previous Aichi targets or other multilateral environment agreements—largely because 196 GBF indicators are analytically complex (54%) and 175 require legislative overview (48%). Greater involvement of citizens in the GBF would increase societal engagement in international agreements, harness knowledge from those living close to nature to fill data gaps and enhance local to national decision-making based on improved information, leading to better conservation actions. How can citizen science impact large-scale outcomes? This study looks at hundreds of Global Biodiversity Framework indicators to examine which ones benefit from input from local communities and non-scientists.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 12","pages":"1730-1739"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01447-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A renewable and socially accepted energy system for astronomical telescopes","authors":"Guillermo Valenzuela-Venegas, Maria Luisa Lode, Isabelle Viole, Alex Felice, Ander Martinez Alonso, Luis Ramirez Camargo, Sabrina Sartori, Marianne Zeyringer","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01442-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01442-3","url":null,"abstract":"Remote astronomical telescopes without access to the national electricity grid are usually designed to rely on fossil fuels without considering the social and energy needs of the surrounding communities. Concurrently, climate change concerns and fuel price vulnerability are driving the transition to renewable energy sources. Here we propose a socially accepted renewable energy system for a future telescope in the Atacama Desert, combining an energy system model with a participatory multi-criteria analysis. Our findings highlight the fact that various stakeholders, including local residents, the municipality, the existing local utility and observatories, prioritize emissions reduction, security of supply and reduced electricity costs. The results reveal that a system supplying renewable energy to the telescope could also cover 66% of a nearby community’s energy needs without additional capacity. Stakeholder inputs show that this is the most attractive solution by developing an energy system in which all the actors benefit. Replicating similar energy systems at nearby telescopes could reduce fossil fuel-based energy generation by 30 GWh annually, cutting emissions by 18–24 ktCO2e while contributing to energy justice. The proposed approach aims to promote social acceptance of renewable energy systems by involving stakeholders in the decision-making process, integrating benefit sharing among them and contributing to the region’s emissions reduction efforts. Telescopes around the world are usually built in remote areas to maximize observational effectiveness, usually relying on fossil fuel-based energy generators for their operations. This Article analyses community involvement in designing an energy system for a telescope in the Atacama Desert that is both environmentally sustainable and inclusive.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 12","pages":"1642-1650"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of demographic and technological trends on the mitigation of Israel’s environmental footprint","authors":"Tal Cordova, Meidad Kissinger, Na’ama Teschner, Dor Chen, Zeev Stossel, Oren Goldfischer, Shiri Nitzan-Tzahor, Raziel Riemer","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01440-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01440-5","url":null,"abstract":"Nations worldwide are implementing greenhouse gas mitigation measures and promoting the efficient use of natural resources to reduce human pressure on the environment and to increase sustainability. Most of these efforts focus on technological advancement and emphasize the need for economic growth, which will enable further development. However, the impact of demographic trends on sustainability and potential response measures has so far received little attention. Here we develop a model to explore a nation’s potential for environmental footprint mitigation over time given existing and expected demographic trends, consumption patterns and technological advancements. The model is used to test the effects of different scenarios (combinations of mitigation factors) on Israel’s land, water and carbon footprints by 2050 as a case study. The analysis reveals that even when implementing an advanced scenario that combines major technological and behavioural changes, the nation’s mitigation goals will not be achieved given the current demographic trend. Our findings emphasize the need for models that test the effects of combinations of factors on natural resources and the environment. Such models could be valuable tools for decision makers when considering alternative pathways that better support the sustainability and decarbonization of nations. Assumptions of technological and social adaptations to mitigate environmental impacts may be overstating potential gains in the face of population growth, according to this analysis of Israeli national data.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 12","pages":"1616-1625"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A fairer and more effective carbon tax","authors":"Peter Dietsch","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01429-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01429-0","url":null,"abstract":"Given available technologies, current consumption behaviour is incompatible with the goal of keeping global warming below 2 °C. Economists present carbon pricing as the most efficient tool to induce people to adjust their consumption behaviour. This Perspective critically analyses the ethics, economics and politics of one key form of carbon pricing: carbon taxes are levied to discourage fossil-fuel-intensive consumption. The core claim of this Perspective is that progressive individual carbon taxes (that is, taxes whose rate increases the more emissions an individual generates) are not only more effective but also more just than the flat-rate carbon taxes prevalent today. Carbon taxes face several challenges in practice. This Perspective identifies three such challenges and suggests that, to meet them, carbon taxes should be designed like income taxes. The tax rate of a person should increase with the greenhouse gases the person emits through their consumption.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 12","pages":"1584-1591"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Delta sustainability from the Holocene to the Anthropocene and envisioning the future","authors":"Edward Anthony, Jaia Syvitski, Florin Zăinescu, Robert J. Nicholls, Kim M. Cohen, Nick Marriner, Yoshiki Saito, John Day, Philip S. J. Minderhoud, Alessandro Amorosi, Zhongyuan Chen, Christophe Morhange, Toru Tamura, Alfred Vespremeanu-Stroe, Manon Besset, François Sabatier, David Kaniewski, Vittorio Maselli","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01426-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01426-3","url":null,"abstract":"River deltas offer numerous ecosystem services and host an estimated global population of 350 million to more than 500 million inhabitants in over 100 countries. To maintain their sustainability into the future, deltas need to withstand sea-level rise from global warming, but human pressures and diminishing sediment supplies are exacerbating their vulnerability. In this Review, we show how deltas have served as environmental incubators for societal development over the past 7,000 years, and how this tightly interlocked relationship now poses challenges to deltas globally. Without climate stabilization, the sustainability of populous low-to-mid-latitude deltas will be difficult to maintain, probably terminating the delta–human relationship that we know today. River deltas have played a central role in the development of human societies, providing a multitude of environmental services to large populations. In the face of climate change and human impact, careful and strategic management is now required to ensure the future sustainability of habitable deltas.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 10","pages":"1235-1246"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142487183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conceptualizing just transition litigation","authors":"Annalisa Savaresi, Joana Setzer, Sam Bookman, Kim Bouwer, Tiffanie Chan, Isabela Keuschnigg, Chiara Armeni, Alexandra Harrington, Corina Heri, Ian Higham, Chris Hilson, Riccardo Luporini, Chiara Macchi, Linnéa Nordlander, Pedi Obani, Lauri Peterson, Andrea Schapper, Navraj Singh Ghaleigh, Maria Antonia Tigre, Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01439-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01439-y","url":null,"abstract":"The transition towards low-carbon societies is creating winners and losers, raising new questions of justice. Around the world, litigation increasingly articulates these justice questions, challenging laws, projects and policies that aim to deliver climate change adaptation and/or mitigation. In this Perspective, we define and conceptualize the phenomenon of ‘just transition litigation’. This concept provides a new frame for identifying and understanding the diverse justice claims of those affected by climate action. We set out a research agenda to further investigate this phenomenon, with a view to enhancing societal acceptance and support for the transition. Transitioning to low-carbon societies will mean shifts in laws as well as systems, requiring conversations about social and economic justice associated with this shift. This Perspective examines how litigation can be used to understand and facilitate these claims of justice","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 11","pages":"1379-1384"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01439-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142672762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unlocking aquifer sustainability through irrigator-driven groundwater conservation","authors":"Maria Elena Orduña Alegría, Sam Zipper, Hoon C. Shin, Jillian M. Deines, Nathan P. Hendricks, Jonah J. Allen, Geoffrey C. Bohling, Bill Golden, Burke W. Griggs, Stephen Lauer, Chung-Yi Lin, Landon T. Marston, Matthew R. Sanderson, Steven M. Smith, Donald O. Whittemore, Blake B. Wilson, David J. Yu, Qiuyun C. Yu, James J. Butler Jr.","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01437-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01437-0","url":null,"abstract":"Aquifer depletion due to intensive irrigation threatens global economies, food security and ecosystems. This Perspective examines the hydrological, social and economic complexities of managing groundwater resources, focusing on the Sheridan 6 Local Enhanced Management Area in the US High Plains aquifer. Here irrigator-led conservation efforts reduced groundwater use by 25% and slowed aquifer depletion by 65% while maintaining farmers’ incomes. This success resulted from a hybrid integration of bottom-up rule development with top-down enforcement, providing flexible multi-year water allocations and aligning management with local conditions. From this, we identify transferable governance tenets for sustainable groundwater management in similar regions. This Perspective analyses the key elements of the long-term success of an irrigator-led conservation programme in the United States from engineering, social and policy angles and identifies transferable governance lessons for other agricultural regions.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 12","pages":"1574-1583"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems","authors":"Ruth H. Thurstan, Hannah McCormick, Joanne Preston, Elizabeth C. Ashton, Floris P. Bennema, Ana Bratoš Cetinić, Janet H. Brown, Tom C. Cameron, Fiz da Costa, David W. Donnan, Christine Ewers, Tomaso Fortibuoni, Eve Galimany, Otello Giovanardi, Romain Grancher, Daniele Grech, Maria Hayden-Hughes, Luke Helmer, K. Thomas Jensen, José A. Juanes, Janie Latchford, Alec B. M. Moore, Dimitrios K. Moutopoulos, Pernille Nielsen, Henning von Nordheim, Bárbara Ondiviela, Corina Peter, Bernadette Pogoda, Bo Poulsen, Stéphane Pouvreau, Callum M. Roberts, Cordula Scherer, Aad C. Smaal, David Smyth, Åsa Strand, John A. Theodorou, Philine S. E. zu Ermgassen","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01441-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01441-4","url":null,"abstract":"Anthropogenic activities have impacted marine ecosystems at extraordinary scales. Biogenic reef ecosystems built by the European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) typically declined before scientific monitoring. The past form and extent of these habitats thus remains unknown, with such information potentially providing valuable perspectives for current management and policy. Collating >1,600 records published over 350 years, we created a map of historical oyster reef presence at the resolution of 10 km2 across its biogeographic range, including documenting abundant reef habitats along the coasts of France, Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Spatial extent data were available from just 26% of locations yet totalled >1.7 million hectares (median reef size = 29.9 ha, range 0.01–1,536,000 ha), with 190 associated macrofauna species from 13 phyla described. Our analysis demonstrates that oyster reefs were once a dominant three-dimensional feature of European coastlines, with their loss pointing to a fundamental restructuring and ‘flattening’ of coastal and shallow-shelf seafloors. This unique empirical record demonstrates the highly degraded nature of European seas and provides key baseline context for international restoration commitments. Native oyster reef ecosystems were decimated by human activities, with little known of their past extent. This study evaluates historical records to show that oyster reefs were once a dominant feature of European coastlines and provides perspectives for current management strategies.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 12","pages":"1719-1729"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01441-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development","authors":"Angelo C. Gurgel, Joaquim E. A. Seabra, Sofia M. Arantes, Marcelo M. R. Moreira, Lee R. Lynd, Rosana Galindo","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01448-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01448-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 1","pages":"120-120"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01448-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143121546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries","authors":"Zhantao Liu, Jue Liu, Simin Zhao, Sangni Xun, Paul Byaruhanga, Shuo Chen, Yuanzhi Tang, Ting Zhu, Hailong Chen","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01431-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01431-6","url":null,"abstract":"The dominant chemistries of lithium-ion batteries on the market today still rely on flammable organic liquid electrolytes and cathodes containing scarce metals, such as cobalt or nickel, raising safety, cost and environmental concerns. Here we show a FeCl3 cathode that costs as little as 1% of the cost of a LiCoO2 cathode or 2% of a LiFePO4 cathode. Once coupled with a solid halide electrolyte and a lithium-indium (Li–In) alloy anode, it enables all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries without any liquid components. Notably, FeCl3 exhibits two flat voltage plateaux between 3.5 and 3.8 V versus Li+/Li, and the solid cell retains 83% of its initial capacity after 1,000 cycles with an average Coulombic efficiency of 99.95%. Combined neutron diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy characterizations reveal a Li-ion (de)intercalation mechanism together with a Fe2+/Fe3+ redox process. Our work provides a promising avenue for developing sustainable battery technologies with a favourable balance of performance, cost and safety. The authors present a FeCl3 cathode design that enables all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries with a favourable combination of low cost, improved safety and good performance.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 11","pages":"1492-1500"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142672791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}