This policy brief unpacks how and why the scenarios and models of the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC project climate action pathways that lead to unacceptable futures. These pathways restrict ...

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 ...

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 interview questions were posed by dossier coordinator Imke Horstmannshoff. What is your own and AFRICE's vision of the Rights of Nature? The Rights of Nature are inextricably connected with human ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rights of Nature mean and demand not only a legal paradigm shift but also a far-reaching culture change: a shift in humans’ relations to their surroundings. This is reflected in the diversity of ...

Geologists have traditionally divided the history of our planet into different geological epochs. The current epoch is the so-called Holocene, which started around 11,700 years ago. A crucial ...

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 ...

With the recognition of the Spanish salt lagoon Mar Menor as a legal entity, the 'rights of nature' made their way into Europe in 2022 – though only after the water body had suffered profound ...

"Frogs win court battle": thus went a headline reporting on a court case in Ecuador in 2020. Biologist Andrea Terán Valdez had filed a lawsuit on behalf of two frog species, against a mining project ...

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, ...