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Mapping energy sustainability: An integrated analysis of research landscapes and policy alignment 绘制能源可持续性：研究景观和政策调整的综合分析

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104282

Jiayu Li, Michael C.P. Sing

Fragmentation in energy sustainability (ES) research and potential academic-policy misalignment impede global ES progress. This dual challenge motivates the innovations of this work: to synthesize ES literature and examine the academic-policy alignment. Theoretically, it enriches academic discourse by integrating dispersed ES research and offering new perspectives on the academia–policy divide. Practically, it identifies opportunities to help researchers address critical gaps and supports policymakers in designing effective measures to bridge this divide. Methodologically, we combine bibliometric and content analyses to map the ES research landscape, and employ a coupling coordination degree (CCD) model to quantify academia–policy alignment. Key findings reveal: (1) ES research is geographically concentrated in China and Europe; (2) while the definition of ES has evolved from narrow focus on sustainability to include inclusivity, accessibility, affordability, and energy efficiency, resilience remains underrepresented despite its importance for reflecting dynamic nature of ES; (3) three primary assessment frameworks prevail: social–economic–environmental, energy security–equity–environmental sustainability, and SDG-based framework; (4) while MCDM is the most common evaluation tool, dynamic methods such as predictive modelling are urgently needed; (5) Drivers of ES span economic, technological, political, and environmental dimensions, with social factors often overlooked; (6) CCD analysis reveals a U-shaped pattern in China, indicating alternating leadership between academia and policy, whereas France and Poland demonstrate steady CCD growth led by academic research. Conversely, the U.S. presents fluctuating CCD, where academic research is frequently disrupted by policy volatility. These patterns inform context-specific recommendations for improving academia-policy alignment.

能源可持续性研究的碎片化和潜在的学术政策偏差阻碍了全球能源可持续性的发展。这种双重挑战激发了这项工作的创新：综合ES文献并检查学术政策一致性。从理论上讲，它通过整合分散的ES研究丰富了学术话语，并为学术-政策鸿沟提供了新的视角。实际上，它确定了帮助研究人员解决关键差距的机会，并支持决策者设计有效的措施来弥合这一差距。在方法上，我们结合文献计量学和内容分析来绘制ES研究景观，并采用耦合协调度（CCD）模型来量化学术与政策的一致性。主要研究结果表明：(1)ES研究在地理上主要集中在中国和欧洲；(2)虽然可持续能源的定义已经从狭隘的可持续性发展到包括包容性、可及性、可负担性和能源效率，但弹性仍然没有得到充分的代表，尽管它对反映可持续能源的动态性质很重要；(3)社会-经济-环境、能源安全-公平-环境可持续性和基于可持续发展目标的评估框架占主导地位；(4)虽然MCDM是最常用的评估工具，但迫切需要预测建模等动态方法；(5)可持续发展的驱动因素包括经济、技术、政治和环境等维度，而社会因素往往被忽视；(6)中国的CCD呈u型增长，表现为学术与政策交替主导，而法国和波兰则表现为学术主导的CCD稳步增长。相反，美国呈现出波动的CCD，学术研究经常受到政策波动的干扰。这些模式为改善学术与政策的一致性提供了具体的建议。

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Transforming climate change adaptation in South Africa: Addressing leadership, governance, and community vulnerability through inclusive strategies and effective leadership 转型南非气候变化适应：通过包容性战略和有效领导解决领导力、治理和社区脆弱性问题

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104274

Richard Kwame Adom, Takalani Malivhadza, Mulala Danny Simatele

The climate change adaptation framework in South Africa encapsulates multi-layered and dimensional strategies encompassing policies, stakeholder engagements, institutional capacity building, resource allocation, research and knowledge sharing. The framework integrates localised planning, resistant infrastructure development, conservation strategies, disaster mitigation, technological innovation and resilient infrastructure. Despite this well-thought-out framework, the adaptation measures do not address the vulnerabilities of risk communities. Using a mixed-method of qualitative and quantitative approach this paper explores the influence of leadership styles in South Africa’s climate change adaptation process, identifies gaps in leadership, structural and institutional barriers hindering the implementation of framework, and explores alternative strategies to enhance its effective execution. The findings established that climate change adaptation frameworks in South Africa face significant weaknesses that include fragmented leadership across government levels, weak accountability mechanisms, constrained capacity and expertise, inadequate community involvement, insufficient funding, a short-term focus, bureaucratic delays, and poor integration of science into policy. This paper suggests that enhancing the implementation of the framework will require a multifaceted and concerted strategy that incorporates various stakeholders, strong political will and commitments, effective governance structures, and capacity building.

南非的气候变化适应框架包含了包括政策、利益相关者参与、机构能力建设、资源分配、研究和知识共享在内的多层和多维战略。该框架整合了地方规划、抗灾基础设施发展、保护战略、减灾、技术创新和抗灾基础设施。尽管有这个经过深思熟虑的框架，但适应措施并没有解决风险社区的脆弱性。本文采用定性和定量方法的混合方法，探讨了领导风格对南非气候变化适应过程的影响，确定了阻碍框架实施的领导差距、结构和体制障碍，并探讨了提高框架有效执行的替代战略。研究结果表明，南非的气候变化适应框架面临着显著的弱点，包括各级政府的领导分散、问责机制薄弱、能力和专业知识有限、社区参与不足、资金不足、短期关注、官僚主义拖延以及科学与政策的整合不足。本文建议，加强框架的实施将需要一个多方面和协调一致的战略，包括各种利益相关者、强烈的政治意愿和承诺、有效的治理结构和能力建设。

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Bridging the pathways of industrial and urban sustainability: A perspective for mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions into Industrial Parks 弥合工业和城市可持续发展的道路：将基于自然的解决方案主流化到工业园区的视角

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104278

Elena Di Pirro , Maria Rosaria Sessa , Jia-He Zhou , Francesco Sica

Industrial and urban areas are known for generating significant environmental and social impacts. While Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have gained widespread adoption in urban areas to address these challenges, their integration in active industrial zones has been limited. NBS have primarily been applied in post-industrial contexts, but they hold the potential to be similarly utilized in industrial areas to address comparable sustainability challenges, such as pollution reduction, resource efficiency, and climate resilience. This perspective paper presents a viewpoint on the potential incorporation of NBS inside industrial areas to promote eco-innovative systems, particularly Eco-Industrial Parks (EIPs). To better contextualize the possible NBS mainstreaming in industrial areas for the advancement of more nature-positive frameworks, an overview of the main industrial and urban sustainability policies has been offered, followed by a brief literature review assessing the inclusion of NBS and related concepts within current industrial areas. Finally, a perspective is proposed as a framework to highlight NBS contribution for enhancing industrial sustainability by reducing environmental impacts, improving resource efficiency, and fostering biodiversity restoration. Particularly, within industrial areas already facing sustainability processes (e.g., EIPs), NBS projects can trigger public-private partnerships to achieve shared goals. By doing so, industries can contribute to a net-zero and nature-positive future, aligning with broader environmental and social objectives. Future research should focus on fostering collaboration and expanding NBS adoption in industrial contexts.

众所周知，工业和城市地区会产生重大的环境和社会影响。虽然基于自然的解决方案（NBS）已在城市地区得到广泛采用，以应对这些挑战，但它们在活跃工业区的整合受到限制。国家统计局主要在后工业背景下应用，但它们也有潜力在工业领域得到类似的利用，以应对类似的可持续性挑战，如减少污染、资源效率和气候适应能力。本文提出了在工业区内引入国家统计局以促进生态创新系统，特别是生态工业园区（eip）的观点。为了更好地将国家统计局在工业领域的主流化置于更有利于自然的框架中，本文概述了主要的工业和城市可持续性政策，然后简要回顾了国家统计局和相关概念在当前工业领域的应用情况。最后，提出了一个视角框架，以突出国家统计局通过减少环境影响、提高资源效率和促进生物多样性恢复来增强工业可持续性的贡献。特别是，在已经面临可持续发展进程的工业地区（例如EIPs），国家统计局项目可以触发公私伙伴关系，以实现共同目标。通过这样做，工业可以为零净和自然积极的未来做出贡献，与更广泛的环境和社会目标保持一致。未来的研究应侧重于促进合作和扩大NBS在工业背景下的采用。

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Unlearning as resistance and justice: Toward healing and transforming 作为抵抗和正义的忘却：走向治愈和转变

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104251

Ramcilovic-Suominen Sabaheta

Multi-trans- and inter-disciplinarity, while important, cannot on their own ensure ontological and epistemic justice or facilitate transformations to justice, sustainability and thriving for all. We need to recognize, problematize, and eventually willfully and consciously let go of the harmful ontological and philosophical assumptions and myths underlying Western science and epistemology. The ontologies and philosophies inform and shape stories we tell, worldviews, values and beliefs we hold, which further shape our actions, habits and behaviours that we are caught in and reproduce. Thus ontological and philosophical views and asumptions inform and guide our day-to-day ways of living, existing, resisting, relating, caring, or not caring. Increasingly scholars of socioecological transformations recognize the importance of ontologies and philosophies in guiding our individual and collective responses to the metacrises, calling for ontological and relational shifts as key to socioecological transformations. This requires questioning, reflecting and deconstructing the harmful ontological bases of modern Western science and knowledge systems, which fine tune our lenses through which we see the world and act accordingly. I refer to this process as a ‘deep transformative Unlearning’. I frame it as a precondition for both, holding space for the existing invisiblized ontologies, epistemologies and worldviews, and for cultivating new ontological and philosophical emergences. As we start to question and let go, we take with us the wisdom of the old ways, while making space for the new ways to emerge. Unlearning harmful ontologies and associated worldviews, assumptions, and myths that uphold the Western science and the (neo)colonial-capitalist ideas-structures is a matter of justice, survival, and healing.

多学科、跨学科和跨学科虽然重要，但它们本身不能确保本体论和认识上的公正，也不能促进向公正、可持续性和人人共享的繁荣的转变。我们需要认识、质疑并最终自觉地放弃潜藏在西方科学和认识论之下的有害的本体论和哲学假设以及神话。本体论和哲学为我们讲述的故事、世界观、价值观和信仰提供了信息并塑造了它们，而这些又进一步塑造了我们的行为、习惯和行为。因此，本体论和哲学观点和假设告知并指导我们日常的生活方式，存在，抵制，联系，关心或不关心。越来越多的社会生态转型学者认识到本体论和哲学在指导我们个人和集体对元危机的反应方面的重要性，呼吁将本体论和关系转变作为社会生态转型的关键。这需要质疑、反思和解构现代西方科学和知识体系有害的本体论基础，这些基础微调了我们观察世界和采取相应行动的镜头。我把这个过程称为“深刻的变革性忘却”。我把它作为两者的先决条件，为现有的无形本体论、认识论和世界观提供空间，并为培养新的本体论和哲学出现提供空间。当我们开始质疑和放手时，我们带走了旧方式的智慧，同时为新方式的出现腾出空间。摒弃有害的本体论以及与之相关的世界观、假设和神话，这些观念支撑着西方科学和（新）殖民资本主义思想结构，这是一个正义、生存和治愈的问题。

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Spatial relationships matter: How a spatial lens can illuminate barriers and motivators of natural flood management 空间关系至关重要：空间透镜如何阐明自然洪水管理的障碍和激励因素

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104259

Andrew David Tabas , Ian Pattison , Leo Peskett , Lindsay Beevers

Flooding is a significant global risk that is being exacerbated by land use change and climate change. Natural Flood Management (NFM) is a group of practices that can help mitigate flood risk by slowing the flow, decreasing runoff rates, and storing water, and it can be effective at a variety of scales. NFM implementation is inherently spatial, as it requires upscaling as well as overcoming upstream-downstream spatial disconnections. However, existing literature on the barriers and motivators of NFM discusses the concept of space inconsistently. We review articles on the barriers and motivators of NFM implementation (n = 30) and find that the most common barriers are related to policies, knowledge, and funding; and the most common motivators are related to co-benefits, flood mitigation, and supportive policies. We use a spatial framework to analyse the barriers and motivators of NFM, finding that measuring NFM’s effectiveness, encouraging upstream-downstream cooperation, and considering visual impact and sense of place are essential for NFM upscaling. More consistency is needed in spatial thinking to move from discussions of the barriers of NFM to successful catchment-scale implementation. A holistic spatial framework for NFM implementation, with links to existing implementation frameworks, is proposed to facilitate NFM upscaling.

洪水是一个重大的全球风险，土地利用变化和气候变化正在加剧。自然洪水管理（NFM）是一组可以通过减缓流量、降低径流速率和储存水来帮助减轻洪水风险的实践，它可以在各种规模上有效。NFM的实施本质上是空间的，因为它需要升级，以及克服上下游的空间脱节。然而，现有文献对NFM的障碍和激励因素讨论的空间概念并不一致。我们回顾了关于NFM实施的障碍和激励因素的文章（n = 30），发现最常见的障碍与政策、知识和资金有关；最常见的激励因素与协同效益、洪水缓解和支持性政策有关。本文采用空间框架分析NFM的障碍和动因，发现衡量NFM的有效性、鼓励上下游合作、考虑视觉影响和地方感是NFM升级的必要条件。从讨论NFM的障碍到成功的流域规模实施，在空间思维方面需要更多的一致性。提出了NFM实施的整体空间框架，并与现有的实施框架相联系，以促进NFM的升级。

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Groundwater depletion to recovery: Resilience strategies in Ho Chi Minh City under climate change and subsidence pressures 地下水枯竭到恢复：气候变化和沉降压力下胡志明市的恢复策略

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104266

Quang-Khai Ha , Sarah Tweed , Duc Huy Dang

Coastal megacities face compounded risks from land subsidence, sea-level rise, and groundwater over-extraction. Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, exemplifies these challenges due to its low-lying terrain and long-term dependence on groundwater. This review explores the evolution of groundwater extraction practices, aquifer responses, and policy interventions in HCMC from the early 1990s to the early 2020 s. Drawing from multi-decadal monitoring records and a range of trend analysis techniques, including linear regression, the Mann–Kendall test, and Sen’s slope estimator, this review synthesizes evidence pointing to a gradual shift from unsustainable over-extraction toward early indications of groundwater recovery. Emerging information suggests that this transition is associated with several key developments, including the expansion of piped water infrastructure, the enactment of national and municipal water regulations, and targeted policy measures to regulate groundwater use. Reported estimates indicate a significant reduction in groundwater extraction volumes, from a peak of approximately 720,000 m³ /day in 2016 to around 145,000 m³ /day by 2022, accompanied by partial recovery in groundwater levels and potential deceleration of land subsidence in the most affected aquifers. These developments underscore broader lessons for integrated groundwater governance, particularly in rapidly growing and low-lying megacities. The case of HCMC illustrates the importance of aligning infrastructure investment with regulatory frameworks and highlights the potential benefits of adaptive water planning in the face of climate change and urban expansion. This review aims to provide a foundation for further interdisciplinary research and policy dialogue on sustainable groundwater management in vulnerable coastal regions.

沿海大城市面临着地面沉降、海平面上升和地下水过度开采的多重风险。越南的胡志明市（HCMC）由于地势低洼且长期依赖地下水，体现了这些挑战。本文探讨了从20世纪90年代初到2020年代初胡志明市地下水开采实践、含水层响应和政策干预的演变 。根据多年代际监测记录和一系列趋势分析技术，包括线性回归、Mann-Kendall检验和Sen 's斜率估计，本综述综合了证据，表明从不可持续的过度开采逐渐转向地下水恢复的早期迹象。新出现的信息表明，这一转变与若干关键发展有关，包括管道水基础设施的扩大、国家和市政水条例的颁布以及有针对性的政策措施来管理地下水的使用。报告估计表明，地下水开采量将显著减少，从2016年的峰值约720,000 m³ /天降至2022年的约145,000 m³ /天，同时地下水水位部分恢复，受影响最严重的含水层的地面沉降可能会减慢。这些发展突出了地下水综合治理的更广泛经验，特别是在快速发展的低洼特大城市。胡志明市的案例说明了将基础设施投资与监管框架相结合的重要性，并强调了面对气候变化和城市扩张时适应性水规划的潜在好处。本综述旨在为沿海脆弱地区地下水可持续管理的进一步跨学科研究和政策对话提供基础。

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Evaluating global carbon neutrality commitments: An integrated assessment model approach to the 2°C target 评估全球碳中和承诺：2°C目标的综合评估模型方法

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104280

Dowon Kim , Wonbeen Park , Taeyoung Jin

This study analyzes the impact of carbon-neutral policies on the global climate and economy using a RICE-2010 model, reflecting climate actions of 184 countries. We investigate scenarios including business-as-usual, nationally determined contributions (NDCs), net zero emissions, and 1.5°C compliance. Our findings show that current emission reduction targets, while significant, fall short of limiting global temperature rise to 2°C by 2300, resulting in a projected warming of approximately 2.48°C, or about 0.48°C above the 2°C target. The analysis reveals that an additional 5 GtCO2e reduction is needed by 2030 to align with the 2°C pathway, with major emitters like China, the US, and India requiring the largest additional efforts. The study highlights that climate change impacts and resilience vary based on the timing and degree of emission reductions. Importantly, the costs and difficulties of achieving carbon neutrality differ among countries, potentially leading to free-rider issues. To address this, we emphasize the need for stricter, cooperative global governance on carbon neutrality. While current policies represent substantial progress, enhanced international cooperation and more ambitious targets are crucial to fully achieve the 2°C goal. This study provides insights for policymakers on the scale of necessary adjustments and the importance of equitable burden-sharing in global climate action.

本研究利用RICE-2010模型分析了碳中和政策对全球气候和经济的影响，反映了184个国家的气候行动。我们研究了包括一切照旧、国家自主贡献（NDCs）、净零排放和1.5°C合规在内的情景。我们的研究结果表明，目前的减排目标虽然重要，但无法在2300年前将全球气温上升限制在2°C以内，这将导致预计升温约2.48°C，或比2°C目标高出约0.48°C。分析显示，到2030年，要达到2°C的目标，还需要再减少5亿吨二氧化碳当量，中国、美国和印度等主要排放国需要做出最大的额外努力。该研究强调，气候变化的影响和恢复能力因减排的时间和程度而异。重要的是，实现碳中和的成本和难度因国家而异，这可能导致搭便车的问题。为此，我们强调有必要就碳中和问题建立更严格、更具合作性的全球治理。虽然目前的政策取得了实质性进展，但加强国际合作和制定更雄心勃勃的目标对于全面实现2°C目标至关重要。这项研究为政策制定者提供了关于必要调整规模和全球气候行动中公平负担分担重要性的见解。

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PFAS and the pollution trap: contested knowledge in environmental justice struggles PFAS和污染陷阱：环境正义斗争中有争议的知识

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104281

Layla Lomé van der Donk, Marcel Llavero-Pasquina

Emerging evidence on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination hotspots has put these persistent chemicals under growing scrutiny. However, chemical corporations’ deliberate efforts at veiling risks associated with PFAS have led regulatory bodies to give a slow response to this ominous environmental and public health threat. This article analyses 25 environmental conflicts over PFAS contamination using the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, paying particular attention to the contestation of knowledge and the roles of PFAS’ chemical properties in shaping these conflicts. In doing so, it situates environmental justice struggles in the arena of post-normal science and adds to the empirical demonstration of manufactured uncertainty by PFAS-emitting industries. It highlights how the invisible nature of PFAS allows those responsible for contamination to keep the environmental threat under the radar, which supports the case for treating embodied experiences of people in affected communities as valuable sources of data informing timely policy interventions. The analysis contributes to environmental justice literature by pointing at the emergence of new environmental justice communities and sacrifice zones through what we liken to a “pollution trap” created by invisible yet persistent toxics. Our findings call for urgent preventive action, research, dissemination, and regulation, particularly out of concern over the expansion of toxic frontiers to the Global South.

关于全氟烷基和多氟烷基物质（PFAS）污染热点的新证据使这些持久性化学品受到越来越多的审查。然而，化学公司刻意掩盖与PFAS相关的风险，导致监管机构对这一不祥的环境和公共健康威胁反应迟缓。本文利用全球环境正义地图集分析了25起关于PFAS污染的环境冲突，特别关注了知识的争论以及PFAS化学性质在形成这些冲突中的作用。在这样做的过程中，它将环境正义斗争置于后常态科学的舞台上，并增加了pfas排放行业制造不确定性的实证证明。它强调了PFAS的不可见性如何允许那些对污染负责的人将环境威胁隐藏在雷达之下，这支持了将受影响社区中人们的具体经验作为及时通知政策干预的宝贵数据来源的案例。该分析对环境正义文献做出了贡献，指出了新的环境正义社区和牺牲区的出现，我们将其比作由无形但持久的有毒物质造成的“污染陷阱”。我们的研究结果呼吁采取紧急的预防行动、研究、传播和监管，特别是出于对有毒边界向全球南方扩张的担忧。

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Troubled environmental governance in the age of the “twin” green and digital transitions 在绿色和数字化“双生”的时代，环境治理陷入困境

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104233

Zora Kovacic, Lucía Argüelles

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Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions from decolonial feminist perspectives in Western Canada 从非殖民主义女权主义视角看加拿大西部土著妇女主导的气候危机解决方案

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104272

Jebunnessa Chapola , Ranjan Datta , Teena Starlight , Margot Hurlbert , Sofie Poggendorf

This paper critically explores Indigenous women-led climate change solutions through an anti-racist lens. Indigenous communities, particularly women, have long been disproportionately affected by the adverse impacts of climate change. However, they also possess invaluable knowledge and resilience rooted in their deep connection to the land and environment. Centering Indigenous women's voices and experiences, this reflection aims to shed light on their innovative strategies, highlighting the importance of acknowledging and countering their intersecting oppressions. Following decolonial and relational theoretical frameworks, we learned that Indigenous women's leadership and traditional land-based knowledge offer unique perspectives and solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change. It emphasizes the importance of building respectful and reciprocal relationships, actively listening to Indigenous voices, and amplifying their calls for justice and equity. Indigenous women helped us to learn how to challenge systemic injustices and work towards collaborative, inclusive, and sustainable climate solutions that center Indigenous women's knowledge, leadership, and self-determination. We can forge a path toward a more just and resilient future for all by uplifting Indigenous voices.

本文通过反种族主义的视角批判性地探讨了土著妇女主导的气候变化解决方案。长期以来，土著社区，特别是妇女，受到气候变化不利影响的影响尤为严重。然而，由于他们与土地和环境的紧密联系，他们也拥有宝贵的知识和复原力。本次反思以土著妇女的声音和经历为中心，旨在揭示她们的创新策略，强调承认和对抗相互交织的压迫的重要性。根据非殖民化和相关理论框架，我们了解到土著妇女的领导地位和传统的陆地知识为减缓和适应气候变化提供了独特的视角和解决方案。它强调建立尊重和互惠关系的重要性，积极倾听土著的声音，并扩大他们对正义和公平的呼吁。土著妇女帮助我们学会了如何挑战系统性的不公正，并努力寻求以土著妇女的知识、领导力和自决为中心的协作、包容和可持续的气候解决方案。我们可以通过提高土著人民的声音，为所有人开辟一条通往更公正、更有复原力的未来的道路。

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