Description
While the environment and climate change have become central concerns of international politics, the protection of nature – biodiversity, habitats, and ecosystems – remains comparatively underexplored within the study of world politics. This panel seeks to foreground nature protection as a critical and urgent domain of political contestation.
Recent developments such as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), the growing prominence of biodiversity COPs, and the inclusion of nature-based solutions in climate finance and loss and damage debates signal a shifting landscape. These changes invite renewed attention to how nature is conceptualised, valued, and contested across borders and disciplines.