A Polity for the Earth.

Our Vision

The Planet Politics Institute is a virtual community of scholars, writers, and lawyers that researches the myriad dimensions of a planetary politics. We are dedicated to connecting research in ecological politics, ethics, and law to active struggles for political change, improved governance, and ecological survival.

Writing Planet Politics

Planet politics must emerge as an alternative thought and process: a politics to nurture worlds for all humans and species co-living in the biosphere. We must embrace a multi-species, multi-disciplinary action plan. And we must do it now.

Planet Politics: A Manifesto

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Environmental Defenders

Imagine one idea that could eliminate 40 per cent of the world’s greenhouse pollution and save millions of lives this century.

That is the Coal Elimination Treaty – the CET.

Coal Elimination Treaty

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The murder and repression of environmental activists - often indigenous people fighting to protect their lands and precious ecologies - is a double crime: against human rights and the rights of nature. The PPI is building a resource base on environmental defenders and, through its Crimes Against Biodiversity research program, developing a new international criminal code that prohibits such violations.

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Coal is a highly toxic substance and the source of 40% of global greenhouse pollution. These pages showcase the reporting and research - on the climatic emergency and carbon budget, coal’s devastating human costs, and just transitions - that supports our Coal Elimination Treaty proposal.

Moving Beyond Coal

Coal Research Base