The Geneva Declaration on Advancing Public Rights to Tackle the Triple Planetary Crisis in the Face of Geopolitical Tensions, adopted at the Eighth Meeting of the Parties (MOP-8) to the Aarhus Convention in November 2025, constitutes a significant political and normative statement reaffirming the centrality of environmental democracy in times of global uncertainty. Adopted against the backdrop of escalating climate change impacts, biodiversity loss, pollution, and intensifying geopolitical tensions, the Declaration emphasizes that effective governance of environmental crises cannot be achieved without the full implementation of procedural environmental rights.

The 2025 edition of the UNEP Frontiers Report, “The Weight of Time,” offers a timely and particularly thought-provoking reflection on how temporal dimensions—long-term exposure, delayed environmental responses, and demographic transitions—are reshaping both environmental risks and governance needs. By identifying four emerging issues, the report invites policymakers, rese archers, and practitioners of environmental governance to look beyond immediate concerns and engage with the longer-term dynamics that increasingly define our environmental reality. Among these, the demographic challenge of ageing populations in a changing environment appears especially pertinent to the work and orientation of MEPIELAN.

The 2025 edition of the Emissions Gap Report, prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), offers a comprehensive and policy-relevant assessment of the adequacy of current State action under the Paris Agreement. As part of UNEP’s flagship analytical series, the report evaluates the discrepancy between projected global greenhouse gas emissions and the reductions required to meet the Agreement’s temperature goals of limiting global warming to 1.5°C or, at a minimum, well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.