This report reviews the current literature on climate security and identifies the main players in this field. It also examines specific cases to highlight existing activities and the needs of actors ...

In April 2023, war broke out in Sudan and is still raging - also in the capital Khartoum. A Sudanese filmteam captured the lives of five residents before, during and after the war. Their film is ...

The proposal of the Pueblo Originario Kichwa de Sarayaku (Indigenous Kichwa People of of Sarayaku) is particularly resonating and far-reaching. They propose that their territory in the Ecuadorian ...

Climate-smart mining appears to be a better alternative to traditional mining, known for its destructive nature. By hyphenating ‘climate’ with smart mining, it is a repackaged tool to attract the ...

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The Rights of Nature (RoN) movement in the UK has been revitalised over recent years, with much of activists’ work focusing on local initiatives for river rights, networking projects as well as ...

The interview questions were posed by dossier coordinator Imke Horstmannshoff. What is your own and AFRICE's vision of the Rights of Nature? The Rights of Nature are inextricably connected with human ...

"Frogs win court battle": thus went a headline reporting on a court case in Ecuador in 2020. Biologist Andrea Terán Valdez had filed a lawsuit on behalf of two frog species, against a mining project ...

The Rights of Nature mean and demand not only a legal paradigm shift but also a far-reaching culture change: a shift in humans’ relations to their surroundings. This is reflected in the diversity of ...

In his seminal article Should Trees Have Standing, published in 1972, Christopher Stone argued that the current bifurcation of the legal world into persons and things is neither self-evidently correct ...