Assessing diverse values of nature requires multilingual evidence
Berdejo-Espinola, V. and Amano, T. (2025) Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1: 5–6.
In this comment piece, we argue that the global assessment of people’s values of nature conducted by the IPBES should be based on multilingual evidence to capture the plurality of nature’s values across cultures and languages, avoid overlooking valuable knowledge, and inform policy and decision-making on the basis of unbiased evidence.
We also propose practical approaches to conducting multilingual evidence synthesis based on cross-cultural collaborations and the use of AI tools.