The lack of urgent action to reverse biodiversity loss is partly due to the complex nature of biodiversity as a feature of our planet. Subsequently, policymakers receive an often-confusing variety of narratives on why biodiversity matters, which makes it difficult to link biodiversity loss and risks to the attainment of sustainable development. Making this link clearer calls for a multidimensional perspective on biodiversity to reassess what we value, facilitate mainstreaming and support national decision-making. We propose a co-produced Multidimensional Biodiversity Index to connect biodiversity science to the political agenda that accounts for the diversity of values underpinning nature–human relationships.

缺乏紧急行动来扭转生物多样性丧失的部分原因是生物多样性作为我们星球的一个特征的复杂性。随后，政策制定者收到了关于生物多样性为何重要的各种令人困惑的叙述，这使得很难将生物多样性丧失和风险与实现可持续发展联系起来。使这种联系更加清晰，需要对生物多样性采取多维视角，以重新评估我们的价值，促进主流化并支持国家决策。我们提出了一个联合制作的多维生物多样性指数，将生物多样性科学与政治议程联系起来，政治议程解释了支撑自然-人类关系的价值观的多样性。