As the COP28 climate meeting heads towards stalemate on fossil fuels, Simon Dalby argues new supply-side measures such as coal and fossil fuel treaties must be tried.

If diplomacy is considered an alternative to war, what are the prospects for diplomacy to replace war in human relations with other animals? By Tore Fougner.

Activists have extensively mobilized throughout the world to improve the treatment of nonhuman animals. Steven Tauber writes about the Global Animal Advocacy Movement and its role in world politics.

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.

On his walks with Bento by a Maine port, Jason Read wonders if the Anthropocene challenges the human ascendance and power over nature. Yet, as Marx and Spinoza both understood, old illusions die hard.

Animal protection has long been a topic of debate and regulation but has been neglected in world politics. Judith Renner shows how two discourses of protection influenced the EU’s seal products ban.