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{"title":"The possible institutionalisation of the carbon removal budget concept across the UNFCCC, UNCBD, and corporate net-zero strategies","authors":"Jacopo Bencini ,&nbsp;Laura Iozzelli","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104390","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104390","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study provides a preliminary qualitative policy analysis exploring the possible institutionalisation of the novel Carbon Removal Budget concept into multilateral decision-making and net-zero target setting. The analysis focuses on enabling and constraining factors for institutionalisation across three domains, namely the multilateral climate and biodiversity regimes under the UNFCCC and the UN Biodiversity Convention, and corporate climate target setting under the Science-Based Targets initiative. The study draws parallels with the framing and institutionalisation of a similar epistemic object - the Carbon Budget concept - into the public discourse in recent years. Our analysis suggests that the institutionalisation of the CRB into these three domains faces both opportunities and challenges, and that recognition will play a key role. The UNFCCC appears to be the most fertile institutional ground for such policy development. While the UN Biodiversity regime appears less prepared to offer a holistic platform for institutionalising the concept, linkages can be built around goals listed in the Kunming-Montreal Framework specifically for most nature-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) applications. In the corporate sector, the SBTi draft standard currently under revision presents a timely opportunity to institutionalise the CRB within net-zero strategies, particularly for large, emission-intensive sectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 104390"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147798311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Governing the water-energy-food nexus: A multi-stage governance assessment approach embracing complexity and regional diversity","authors":"Léa Tatry ,&nbsp;Erik Laes ,&nbsp;Eunice Pereira Ramos ,&nbsp;Edo Abraham","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104388","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104388","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Integrated management of water, energy, and food (WEF) systems requires governance approaches that account for biophysical interdependencies while remaining grounded in the institutional arrangements through which decisions are made and implemented. Despite the widespread appeal of the WEF nexus, its operationalization remains limited, particularly in data and capacity-constrained contexts. This study presents a sequenced diagnostic framework to assess WEF nexus governance, explicitly linking biophysical interactions to institutional and policy processes. The approach begins with a basin-level analysis of subsystem interactions to characterize a clearly defined nexus challenge. It then situates this challenge within the broader governance landscape, before proceeding to detailed analyses of policy coherence and governance architecture, including proposal and approval procedures, formal implementation arrangements, and guiding principles. Applied to the Tana River Basin in Kenya, the framework identifies 50 explicit synergies and 7 trade-offs across national sectoral policies, alongside uneven coordination mechanisms between sectors. The findings show how land-use, water allocation, agricultural priorities, climate adaptation, and ecosystem protection are shaped by the interaction between biophysical constraints and sectoral mandates. By linking policy alignment with institutional design, the framework identifies actionable entry points for improving cross-sector coordination. Designed for both preliminary assessments and stakeholder-engaged processes, the approach provides a practical pathway for operationalizing WEF nexus governance in real-world settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 104388"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147798310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Energy sovereignty and climate adaptation: A community model for empowering maya women in Ixil, Yucatan","authors":"Alejandra Vega-Camarena ,&nbsp;Iris Santos-González ,&nbsp;Marcela Torres-Wong ,&nbsp;Rebeca Rosado Medina ,&nbsp;Amina El Mekaoui","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104345","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104345","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite growing recognition of gender dimensions in climate adaptation and energy transitions, Indigenous women's agency in constructing climate knowledge and leading community-controlled renewable energy initiatives remains underexplored, particularly in Latin American contexts. This participatory action research examines how Maya women in Ixil, Yucatán, construct climate vulnerability and achieve multidimensional empowerment through solar irrigation technologies. Employing a novel methodological approach that structures participatory action research as simultaneous knowledge generation and community empowerment, we conducted 24 months of fieldwork (2022–2024), combining guided territory walks, memory journeys, focus groups, and ethnographic observations to document women's experiences with solar energy adoption and climate adaptation strategies. Findings reveal that Ixil women developed \"situated climatic vulnerability,\" an experiential understanding of environmental change grounded in intergenerational memory and daily practice. Through solar technology appropriation, women achieved multidimensional empowerment: technical mastery (solar panel maintenance, hurricane preparedness), economic autonomy (reduced fuel costs, diversified income through flower cultivation), political organization (collective territorial defense against real estate pressures), and cultural revitalization (integration of renewable energy with Maya cosmology). The study introduces the \"territory-body-energy\" nexus, expanding decolonial feminist theory, and the \"colloquia construction of climate vulnerability,\" challenging technocratic methodologies. These findings demonstrate that community-controlled energy transitions led by Indigenous women offer transformative pathways for climate adaptation that prioritize social justice, cultural continuity, and territorial sovereignty. We recommend policy frameworks that support Indigenous energy sovereignty, incorporate traditional ecological knowledge, and center women's leadership in climate adaptation strategies for the Global South.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104345"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147400532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Corrigendum to “Unlearning through spirituality: Mongolian and Western animistic traditions as pathways to enhance sustainability” [Environ. Sci. Policy 175 (2026), 104296]","authors":"Jesse Segura ,&nbsp;Julien-François Gerber ,&nbsp;Filka Sekulova","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104350","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104350"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147400486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Corrigendum to “Vulnerability to climate change, depopulation and the global food regime: An index-based approach for rural Spain” [Environ. Sci. Policy 174 (2025) 104254]","authors":"Sergio Villamayor-Tomas ,&nbsp;Daniel Gaitán-Cremaschi ,&nbsp;Esteve Corbera ,&nbsp;Ana Beatriz Pierri-Daunt ,&nbsp;Letícia Santos de Lima","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104346","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104346","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104346"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147400485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Corrigendum to “Sustainability transition frameworks: Integrating space, scale, nature, power, and justice” [Environ. Sci. Policy 177 (2026) 104327]","authors":"Chloé Nicolas-Artero ,&nbsp;Jampel Dell'Angelo","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104347","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104347","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104347"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147400484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Biodiversity monitoring as data practices: Moving beyond actor-centric science-policy interfaces","authors":"Arne Langlet-Uranüs,&nbsp;Felix Wurm,&nbsp;Alice B.M. Vadrot","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104315","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104315","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The uptake of biodiversity monitoring data for policy and decision-making has remained limited. While several studies and initiatives address the gap between science and policy-making, biodiversity monitoring frameworks such as the CBD’s Global Biodiversity Framework increasingly expect biodiversity monitoring data to directly inform reporting and subsequently decision-making frameworks. Most studies and initiatives approach this interface assuming predefined actor groups (e.g. scientists and policymakers). At the same time, a lack of knowledge persists on the actual data practices of the individuals involved in biodiversity-related monitoring, reporting and policy-making from local observation sites to research institutions, repositories and national or regional decision-making bodies. This study examines these practices by employing a latent class analysis using data from an online survey within the biodiversity monitoring community. The analysis examines shared and divergent data practices and tests whether respondents’ affiliations explain their data practices. It highlights the added value of a person- and practice-centric approach in comparison to an actor- or affiliation-centric analysis by demonstrating that certain practices transcend actor groups while also revealing differences. These findings advance the discourse on science-policy interfaces in biodiversity monitoring and environmental governance more broadly, arguing for understanding the biodiversity monitoring science-policy interface as a data-to-policy interface in which a community of individuals from different actor groups converge around and build common data practices rather than a bilateral bridging between two actor groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104315"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146171407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Caring in crises – Unsettling care in soil carbon sequestration","authors":"Susanna Barrineau ,&nbsp;Stina Powell","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104337","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104337","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article investigates the European policy context of soils and carbon farming where care for soils is promoted alongside climate neutrality and economic growth goals. Through a close reading of four policy documents, we outline three discourses to explore what is done in the name of care, and what care is acceptable and promoted. We speak back to these discourses through Whyte’s (2021) conceptualization of epistemologies of crisis, where we see a concern or care for nature, where nature is not in fact the subject of concern. Instead, to care for nature is about caring for humans and human futures. A focus on care reveals important information about the challenges of translating response-able care for soils into formal decision-making systems, and we propose that concepts of care ethics that align with feminist and indigenous conceptions can inform different priorities and methods in the project to care for soils. We argue for the necessity to unsettle ways of engaging with the world that work from epistemologies of crisis which hinder diverse and relational care and lead to colonized futures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104337"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146171784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Rethinking governance for the Global Biodiversity Framework: Legal gaps and lessons from Chile","authors":"María José Martínez-Harms ,&nbsp;Jessica Castillo-Mandujano ,&nbsp;Bárbara Saavedra ,&nbsp;Cecilia Smith-Ramírez ,&nbsp;Bárbara Larraín-Barrios ,&nbsp;Patricio Pliscoff ,&nbsp;Álvaro G. Gutiérrez ,&nbsp;Micaela Poutay-Broussaingaray ,&nbsp;Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda ,&nbsp;Aníbal Pauchard ,&nbsp;Olga Barbosa ,&nbsp;Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo ,&nbsp;Álvaro Salazar ,&nbsp;Matías Moreno-Faguett ,&nbsp;José Salgado-Rojas","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104313","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104313","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) calls for transformative governance to halt biodiversity loss and promote equitable, effective conservation. Yet implementation remains challenging in countries with fragmented and unequal governance systems. This Perspective introduces a place-based conceptual framework to assess and improve biodiversity governance under the GBF, integrating governance typologies, structural principles (e.g., polycentricity, resilience), and normative dimensions of good governance (e.g., legitimacy, inclusion, equity). We apply this framework to Chile, a country marked by jurisdictional fragmentation and uneven recognition of diverse governance models. Through a documentary analysis of 15 legal instruments, we examine their alignment with GBF Targets 1, 2, 3, and 22 and assess how good governance principles are formally reflected in national legal frameworks. Our findings reveal partial alignment with structural principles, stronger recognition of legitimacy and effectiveness, and persistent weaknesses in equity and accountability. The proposed framework offers a transferable perspective for identifying regulatory and institutional gaps, allowing for guidance on necessary reforms in the design of more adaptive, plural, and evidence-based conservation strategies. By revealing how legal design can enable or constrain progress, the framework supports institutional learning and highlights the need to promote the integration of community and indigenous governance into national planning. While developed through the Chilean case, the framework may inform similar efforts in other postcolonial settings. The effective implementation of the GBF requires reimagining governance, and design-based legal evaluation is crucial for diagnosing institutional architectures and highlighting where reforms are needed to achieve that dynamic and inclusive process, rooted in both legal mandates and diverse knowledge systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104313"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146076856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"EU policy on forest carbon sinks revisited","authors":"A. Maarit I. Kallio,&nbsp;Elias Garvik","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104332","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104332","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The European Union’s (EU) policy for Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) sets carbon sink targets for LULUCF for 2021–2030. Managed forests play a key role in achieving them. Using a global forest sector model, we projected forest sector development with and without meeting the sink target during 2026–2030 under the LULUCF regulation. We also assessed changes in the global harvested wood product sink and greenhouse gas effects from material substitution that could result if the targets were met. Moreover, we examined the combined impact of meeting LULUCF goals and one possible implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, which seeks to conserve 30 % of EU land by 2030. Constant changes in emission statistics and other factors affecting LULUCF sinks complicate impact assessments, introducing uncertainty into our results. Under the assumptions made in this study, achieving sink targets, with or without additional forest conservation, requires an immediate and steep reduction in roundwood harvesting in EU member states and Norway (EU+N). This cut could reach 113–117 million m³ in 2030–2035 compared to a market-driven scenario, assuming no further policy tightening after 2030. Two-thirds of this decrease is projected to be offset by higher harvesting elsewhere, shifting income from EU+N to other regions and reducing the climate gains. Our indicative calculation suggests that the emission reduction costs could exceed €700/t CO₂. Given the high economic burden and availability of more cost-effective alternatives, the role of managed forests in EU climate policy warrants a reconsideration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104332"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146171783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}