biostudies-literatureUnknown620(7975)Pascual UTwenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being^1,2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis³ still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature's diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understanding of how and why nature is (under)valued is more urgent than ever⁴. Notwithstanding agreements to incorporate nature's values into actions, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)⁵ and the UN Sustainable Development Goals⁶, predominant environmental and development policNature813-823https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10447232biostudies-literatureDiverse values of nature for sustainability.PMC10447232Contreras VIslar MNuesiri ENelson SHBalvanera PFaith DPBaptiste BNyumba TOMercon JKumar RNiamir AUngar PAnderson CBOzkaynak BBarton DNGould RKNakangu BMuradian RArias-Arevalo PTermansen MArroyo-Robles GFilyushkina APandit RVatn AKoessler AKPalomo IDe Vos AChristie MAthayde SGuibrunet LEser UAmaruzaman SMukherjee NHuambachano MHahn TPascual UWicher NLHYiu EAhn SPawlowska-Mainville AHorcea-Milcu AILeimona BMonroy-Sais ASLazos EEngel SRozzi RMwampamba THJacobs SLee HNgouhouo-Poufoun JGomez-Baggethun EAmin AMSamakov APorter-Bolland LSchaafsma MHernandez-Blanco MCantu-Fernandez MKenter JOSubramanian SMZent EAydın CIMurali RKelemen ELliso BRaymond CMMannetti LMKosmus MGundimeda HMartin AHarmackova ZVRode JLenzi DGhazi HMuraca BChaplin-Kramer RLele SSachdeva SQuaas Mvan Noordwijk MNemoga-Soto GRSitas NYoshida YGonzalez-Jimenez DO'Farrell PCastro AJDendoncker NfalseDiverse values of nature for sustainability.Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being^1,2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis³ still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature's diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understanding of how and why nature is (under)valued is more urgent than ever⁴. Notwithstanding agreements to incorporate nature's values into actions, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)⁵ and the UN Sustainable Development Goals⁶, predominant environmental and development polic2023-01-01T00:00:00Z2023 Aug2025-04-05T13:37:50.385Z2025-04-05T13:37:50.385ZS-EPMC104472323755887710.1038/s41586-023-06406-9