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.

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Developing effective collaborations and using artificial intelligence (AI) tools ensures more inclusive synthesis of nature values across languages. Note that these are only examples of the AI tools that can be used in the synthesis process, and that this is not an exhaustive list.