This report reviews the current literature on climate security and identifies the main players in this field. It also examines specific cases to highlight existing activities and the needs of actors ...

In April 2023, war broke out in Sudan and is still raging - also in the capital Khartoum. A Sudanese filmteam captured the lives of five residents before, during and after the war. Their film is ...

Climate-smart mining appears to be a better alternative to traditional mining, known for its destructive nature. By hyphenating ‘climate’ with smart mining, it is a repackaged tool to attract the ...

The proposal of the Pueblo Originario Kichwa de Sarayaku (Indigenous Kichwa People of of Sarayaku) is particularly resonating and far-reaching. They propose that their territory in the Ecuadorian ...

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The Rights of Nature (RoN) movement in the UK has been revitalised over recent years, with much of activists’ work focusing on local initiatives for river rights, networking projects as well as ...

The forum enables people from all around the world to speak on behalf of nature, and to make recommendations about Earth's protection and restoration. In doing so, the Tribunal strongly focuses on ...

In his seminal article Should Trees Have Standing, published in 1972, Christopher Stone argued that the current bifurcation of the legal world into persons and things is neither self-evidently correct ...

The Atrato River, recognised as a subject of rights through the Colombian court’s Judgment T-622 of 2016, crosses a large part of the biogeography of the Department of Chocó in Colombia. More than ...

There was an early flurry of activity around 2005-2010, clustered around the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA), with some conferences, an excellent research report analysing the extent to which ...

As humanity grapples with the far-reaching consequences of its actions, from rapid biodiversity loss to the challenges of water scarcity and the environmental ramifications of industrial practices, ...