When ecosystems are destroyed by human action, there must be consequences. The EU has criminalised large-scale environmental damage. Germany now has the opportunity to take leadership – and set a positive example – by introducing a law against ecocide.

As the US retreats from the global climate agenda and the EU struggles to fill the leadership gap, many are looking to China and ask: What can we expect from China's new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for 2035?

In an age marked by rising authoritarianism and anti-gender backlash, feminist peace in the Western Balkans stands as both an act of resistance and a re-imagining of security itself. The Women, Peace and Security Agenda needs to be reviewed.

Twenty-five years after its creation, the Women, Peace and Security agenda sounds hollow in the Arab World. Our author argues for radical action – to finally place women at the helm of the institutions that claim to champion them.

We warmly congratulate Mzia Amaghlobeli on receiving the Sakharov Prize. The online newspapers Batumelebi and Netgazeti, which she co-founded and runs, are among Georgia's most important independent media outlets.

This year's fall meeting of the IMF and World Bank has shown that the global debate on debt seems to be slowly changing. So will there soon be concrete reforms that will relieve the debt burden on poorer countries in particular and enable climate-resilient financing overall?

An agroecological approach to preserve biodiversity in agricultural landscapes should draw on both scientific and local traditional knowledge. This article focuses on changes in the hay management regime in the extensive wetlands of Biebrza National Park in Poland.