Our Earth Matters: Pathways to a Better Common Environmental Future edited by H. DESAI Bharat. Amsterdam/Berlin/Washington, DC: IOS Press, 2021. xii + 228 pp. Softcover: €121.00/US$149.00/£110.00. doi: unknown.

The world witnessed again the historic “ Stockholm Moment ” at the 50th anniversary (2 – 3 June 2022) of the 1972 United Nations (UN) Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm). Notwithstanding the marathon global environmental regulatory processes; instruments and institutions; the global environmental crisis propelled the UN Secretary-General to raise alarm bells, especially for the “ triple planetary crises ” of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss which threaten our planet, peace, and pros-perity in the Anthropocene epoch. It is in this context that the book, Our Earth Matters , edited by Professor Bharat H. Desai of Jawaharlal Nehru University, provides a pathbreak-ing, cutting-edge scholarly understanding of the predicament of human progress at this critical juncture. The book contains twenty-one chapters by twenty-three outstanding scholars and practitioners from around the world. It explores a range of issues comprising international lawmaking processes, intergenerational equity, an earth system approach, and common prospects for a better common environmental future amidst the existential planetary crisis. The exemplary work, zest, and vision of the editor are reflected in the sheer range of issues, the organization of the book, and efforts to provide a futuristic gaze. The work is organized into four parts: prognoses, processes, problematique, and prospects. In its first part, four chapters provide a prognosis of the planetary trust for present and future generations; an evolving earth system law with an Earth-centric approach, and suggestions for a new ecological law to face the current socio-ecological crisis. The four chapters in the second part scan the global regulatory process concerning the usage of the global conferencing technique in international environmental lawmaking; the pos-sible reframing of environmental law with allocative efficiency through social-economic processes; the renewed role of the UN General Assembly for global environmental conferencing