Climate risks are increasingly understood in terms of national security. Yet in Africa, explains climate leader Adenike Oladasu, this means less military action and more attention to complex patterns of inequality and human insecurity such as the crisis around Lake Chad.

There is no vaccine for climate disruptions, writes Simon Dalby. He calls for reformed institutions that can protect people and ecosystems into the long-term future.

The promise of economic growth as the panacea for all human problems has come at the cost of new vulnerabilities. By Simon Dalby.