So far, animals have little status in international law. Cebuan Bliss and Andrea Schapper argue that a new UN organisation, and a new Sustainable Development Goal, should be created to recognise animal interest and welfare.

The 5Oth anniversary of the 1972 UN Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment was commemorated at a major summit this June, but it had no significant outcomes. Frank Biermann asks if this is the end of major environmental summitry.

In Australia, government has ignored the challenge of industry diversification and just transitions from fossil fuels. A new trade union-environmentalist alliance wants to change that. By Georgina Woods.

An important new book thinks beyond the anthropocentric frameworks that have shaped the study of world politics and environmental policy at all levels of governance. By Joana Castro Pereira and André Saramago.