Although biodiversity loss is a key challenge of our time, it remains largely neglected in the broader societal discourse. Research that systematically investigates the question how attention for biodiversity competes or interacts with attention for other issues remains nascent and scarce. Against this background, we conducted an information-provision experiment that presented people with information from selected societal challenges and looked at how this exposure influenced their attention toward biodiversity loss. Specifically, we reminded participants recruited from the general population of Germany about Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine at the time when both of these societal challenges dominated the media. To mimic real-world conditions, we used predominantly negatively-framed media content. Our findings indicated less priority to addressing biodiversity loss after being reminded of other societal challenges, leading to a so-called saturation. However, we found that personal importance of biodiversity to individuals was much stronger behavioural predictor while respondents indicating the deeper personal change is in principle possible (although not necessarily in any specific direction). These findings highlight boundaries of information-based interventions (e.g., choice architecture vs reflexive learning), stressing the need for deeper social and structural processes making biodiversity personally important. The research enhances our understanding of a key provision dilemma – individuals’ willingness to contribute to addressing biodiversity loss, particularly while dealing with multiple societal challenges. JEL Classification Codes: D91; Q28; Q57; Q58

This article details a correction to: Ghorbani, A., Siddiki, S., Mesdaghi, B., Bosch, M., & Abebe, Y. A. (2024). Understanding Institutional Compliance in Flood Risk Management: A Network Analysis Approach Highlighting the Significance of Institutional Linkages and Context. International Journal of the Commons, 18(1), 522–540. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1351

Biodiversity-positive transformative change requires transformations at the societal level and transitions in specific sub-systems directed at addressing the indirect drivers of biodiversity loss. Despite the recognised need to target the sectors most responsible for nature’s decline, the dynamics of biodiversity loss and biodiversity-positive transformative change in the textile, apparel, and fashion sector have never been directly studied by academic contributors. This explorative study maps direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity loss in fashion’s supply chain activities and identifies barriers for transformative change to reflect on the potential direction of a biodiversity-positive transformation of the sector. We base our mapping on the qualitative thematic content analysis of semi-structured interviews with experts from the fashion sector in Italy and grey literature publications. Our results suggest that land-use change due to raw material production is the direct driver to which the industry contributes the most, while economic indirect drivers are the most influential for determining the intensity and distribution of the direct drivers. We identify seven barriers to biodiversity-positive transformative change: i) the ideology of perpetual growth, ii) fashion consumerism, iii) telecouplings, iv) rigid political boundaries, v) uncoordinated institutions and policies, vi) lack of understanding, human capital and measuring, and vii) poor availability of biodiversity-positive technologies. Moreover, we reflect on the direction of transformative change by addressing these drivers beyond panaceas, simple interventions, and single governance levels. Finally, we identify the absence of attention to power relations and equity as a potential obstacle to biodiversity-positive transformative change in fashion. Rather than a systematic and conclusive research endeavour, this study must be seen as a starting point from which further discussions can be developed to promote a transformative governance of biodiversity in fashion.