A leading edge facet of the transition to sustainability is the development, implementation and extended use of new technologies and related system innovations. The two open issues, volumes 45 and 49, of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability journal, are focused on a set of review pieces that evaluate a broad range of these emerging technologies and innovations and document how they are influencing the capacity to achieve the world’s sustainability goals. The advance of these varied new approaches and methods collectively present a period of dramatic transformation that illustrate the dawning of a new era of technological advance much in the same way that the advent of the steam engine, mechanization and mass production changed everyday life, economic structure, and human–environment interaction in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. These technologies and innovations connect with fundamental production and management questions within a range of carbon emission reduction technologies, land management and agricultural production strategies, data and information management, and material flows and logistics. For each, their current status and impact, relevant access and equity issues, and prospects for future development are discussed. It is our hope that the two issues will help to provoke new research questions and collaborative efforts around the world and shed light on future direction of sustainable technological interventions.

向可持续性过渡的前沿方面是新技术和相关系统创新的开发，实施和扩展使用。《环境可持续发展》杂志《当前观点》的第45卷和第49卷这两个未解决的问题集中于一组评估文章，这些评估文章评估了这些新兴技术和创新的范围，并记录了它们如何影响实现世界可持续发展的能力目标。这些不同的新方法和方法的进步共同代表了一个巨大的转变时期，它说明了技术进步新时代的到来，就像蒸汽机的出现，机械化和大规模生产改变了日常生活，经济结构一样以及18、19和20世纪的人与环境互动。这些技术和创新与一系列碳减排技术，土地管理和农业生产策略，数据和信息管理以及物料流和物流中的基本生产和管理问题相关。讨论了它们各自的现状和影响，相关的获取和公平问题以及未来发展的前景。我们希望这两个问题将有助于在世界范围内引发新的研究问题和合作努力，并为可持续技术干预的未来方向提供启示。物流和物流。讨论了它们各自的现状和影响，相关的获取和公平问题以及未来发展的前景。我们希望这两个问题将有助于在世界范围内引发新的研究问题和合作努力，并为可持续技术干预的未来方向提供启示。物流和物流。讨论了它们各自的现状和影响，相关的获取和公平问题以及未来发展的前景。我们希望这两个问题将有助于在世界范围内引发新的研究问题和合作努力，并为可持续技术干预的未来方向提供启示。