Implications of intersectionality in global challenges
There are many global challenges that require the involvement of many nationalities from the Global South and the Global North as well as the empowerment of local populations worldwide. For instance, the goal of global biodiversity conservation is very difficult to achieve because expertise is currently localized, mostly unilingual, and not equally transferred across countries (Amano & Sutherland 2013). Countries that meet the highest number of barriers to excel in science often have global biodiversity hotspots where research are expertise are most urgently needed. However, the most biodiverse areas of the world still receive the least conservation research, often conducted by scientists from western countries (Wilson et al. 2016), a practice commonly known as helicopter research. Addressing these issues should involve diversifying expertise and ameliorating our ways to transfer knowledge to countries that are currently not leaders in science, which involve solving issues related to T , L , N, andD . Until then, addressing global challenges such as climate change, sustainable development, human population growth, water quality and security, and gender equality, is difficult.