Human rights, including the right to a healthy environment, are being increasingly relied on to assure environmental protections. Yet they come with risks, as Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp explains.

International law remains a crucial architecture for world order but is failing the challenge of the Anthropocene. Emily Jones and Matilda Arvidsson argue that posthuman theory can be a crucial resource in these times.

In a new book Giada Giacomini argues for a paradigm shift in international law to better protect Indigenous peoples and their lands. Humankind lives, she says, on an existential continuum with other natural elements.

The pandemic has been a brief and tragic respite from accelerating carbon emissions, but biodiversity loss and attacks on environmental defenders continue. Yet defenders are a crucial frontline in the fight for sustainability and justice. By Susan Park.