Editorials

A significant amount of research is needed to determine whether promising technologies in the lab could translate into implementable solutions to achieve sustainability.

Continuing debates on resilience reflect ongoing tensions and are vital to the advancement of understanding. Nature Sustainability welcomes them and aspires to promote constructive and forward-looking dialogue.

The UN General Assembly will meet later this month at the UN headquarters in New York to adopt a political declaration pledging to accelerate efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Research coupling nutrition and environmental concerns is critical but should increasingly look at ways to integrate insights from psychology.

More effective ways of connecting research programmes and initiatives on the ground will amplify the impact of many sustainability scholars and practitioners around the world.

Scholars contributing to the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) have a lot of in-depth insights to share. Here’s what we recommend to those who are willing to do it.

Protecting Madagascar’s unique biodiversity can improve the life of many in the country.

Resilience is important, but context and details matter.

Developing a culture of innovation is critical to a successful sustainable development strategy.

Transforming human systems to achieve sustainability calls for holistic evidence of their multiple and interconnected facets.

Designing policies to maintain human wellbeing within the limits of planet Earth is a daunting task, but scholars and policymakers should embrace the challenge now.

Our expert panel on urban science has now delivered its much-awaited report, following more than a year of lively and intensive debate.

The country achieved impressive environmental and sustainability successes in the past. Now more than ever, scientists should focus on providing evidence to support policy that helps Brazil to continue doing so.

Achieving food security is possible, if we better understand the complexity of the agricultural system and re-design practices accordingly.

The latest United Nations review leaves no doubt, countries need to step up efforts and act fast if they want to achieve the Global Goals by 2030.

Sustainability research is often interdisciplinary, presenting challenges and opportunities for authors, editors and reviewers. Recognizing and contributing to its hard-won value is vital to unlocking the potential of sustainability science and scholarship.

Societal commitment to protect our seas has never been higher, but it will not succeed unless coordination across the various regulatory bodies involved is achieved.

Civil society, businesses, governments and academia should unite forces to transform the plastic economy.

Droughts and water shortages have threatened urban centres before, but Cape Town captured the world’s attention to the spectre of a full-scale shutdown. The lessons to be learned go beyond precipitation modelling to institutional organization, technological infrastructure, and social behaviour, and every world city should prepare before it’s too late.