This year’s overarching theme is Ecological Transition: Purity, Politics and (Green)Populism. Climate and ecological crises disproportionately impact those already disadvantaged in our societies and deepen existing structural injustices. At the same time, one can witness governments failing to respond adequately, alongside growing hostility toward environmental policies. These dynamics raise key questions: How to conceive ecological transition so that it leaves no one behind but rather empowers those vulnerable? What roles should individuals, states, and international institutions play in shaping and implementing this transition? How can the process be made participatory and democratic? And, crucially, what might transform the idea of a just transition into an appealing collective political project? Does this context call for a new green populism? These and similar challenges also provoke questions about the foundations of ecological thought and practice, on the one hand, and political philosophy, on the other. Given the growing destabilizing impact of humans on the planet, should “purifying” nature from human interference be the goal of environmental thinking and activism? And how can the ideas of politics and political community be extended to include the participation of other than human beings?