The Anthropocene is bringing about novel, urgent and planetary forms of insecurity. But, argue the authors of an important new SIPRI report, environmental change has outpaced our institutions and needs a holistic, lived and plural sense of security.

The civil society climate movement and climate vulnerable states are at odds over whether the Glasgow meeting of the Paris Agreement should be postponed. As the time left to act runs out, we highlight the creative demands put to COP26 by climate vulnerable countries.

A new campaign to make ecocide an international crime is promising. But, argue Anthony Burke & Danielle Celermajer, ecocide should be defined to honour its victims - the beings of the Earth.

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.

The draft 2030 global biodiversity plan has been released, but will falter if it fails to tackle dominant worldviews which equate continuous economic growth with human well-being. By Michelle Lim.

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.