Achieving sustainable development, as envisioned in the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda, requires transformative solutions to reconcile economic growth with environmental and social imperatives. Circular economy practices, green innovations, and corporate responsibility stand out as critical drivers in this effort—reducing resource depletion, fostering innovation, and embedding accountability into global systems. Yet, their combined potential to accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains underexplored. This Collection aims to unravel these synergies, offering actionable insights for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners committed to a sustainable future.

Keywords: Sustainable Development, Circular Economy Practices, Green Innovation, Corporate Responsibility, Challenges and Opportunities in Sustainable Development.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 7, SDG 12, SDG 13 and SDG 17.

This collection is the second volume of the “Climate Change and Human Behavior: Society’s Challenges towards Sustainable Futures”.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges for the society nowadays that requires a response not only from a political perspective, but also from a collective and individual perspective. The society has a key role in mitigating climate change by adopting a sustainable behavior and environmental-friendly practices that can reduce GHG emissions, but also in appropriate adaptation response to climate change. In this respect, increasing people’s awareness towards climate change causes and consequences, understanding the attitude and perception of different societal groups towards climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as sustainability challenges and promoting best practices on how to motivate people to act are important areas of investigation for science today.

This joint Collection discusses topics related to human behaviours and sustainability, with a focus on climate change, from an interdisciplinary perspective. For example, it will include articles that discuss: (a) understanding drivers of pro-environment and sustainable behaviour (b) behavioural modification methods that help improve and promote sustainability practices; (c) anxiety, stress, depression, and mental health problems due to climate change; (d) nutrition shortage and change (due to climate change) impact on human psychology and health; (e) investigation of knowledge, perception, beliefs and attitudes towards climate change and sustainability of different groups; (f) the role of behavior change in climate change adaptation; (g) impact of climate change information and communication on environmental behavior and social responsibility; (h) the role of education in changing the behavior and increasing the motivation towards sustainable practices, (i) good practice examples of community or institution-driven environmental behaviour, (j) the effectiveness of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in behaviour change.

Keywords: Sustainability; Eco-anxiety; Stress; Mental health; Behavioural modification.