Editorial

As always, there are many ongoing and new developments in environmental law around the world.Here we canvass and comment on some recent issues as well as detailing upcoming meetings.While the segments below are short, we have included relevant web links, especially for the benefit of those who read our Journal online. 1 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2019) UN Doc IPBES/7/10/Add.1 (Global Assessment) . 2 See eg, UN News, 'World is "on notice" as major UN report shows one million species face extinction' (6 May 2019) . 3 Global Assessment (n 1) 3-4. 4 UN News (n 2). 5 Ibid.