The ICJ concluded that states have explicit legal duties to safeguard the climate system against anthropogenic greenhouse gas ...

The legal clarity on countries’ climate obligations stemming from last week’s advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) can change how Pacific Island nations engage with other ...

Last week, the UN’s highest court issued a stinging ruling that countries have a legal obligation to limit climate change and ...

In the largest case in its history, the International Court of Justice last week ruled, in a non-binding opinion, that ...

The ICJ concluded that states have explicit legal duties to safeguard the climate system against anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

The court's decision could result in legal action against countries that fail to honour their climate commitments In a ...

The United Nations' International Court of Justice issued a striking opinion this week that opened the door for countries to ...

When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns b ...

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave an advisory opinion on the obligation of states to protect the climate system and the environment from manmade emissions of greenhouse ...

Judges with the U.N.’s top court say in a landmark climate decision that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a ...

The ICJ issued an opinion on climate change that stated the obligations of the Paris Agreement come with legal liability. A ...

Something good happened in The Hague this week. It came with a momentum worth keeping in the fight for climate justice ...