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UN’s top court says failing to protect planet from climate change could violate international law
Judges with the U.N.’s top court say in a landmark climate decision that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a ...
International Court of Justice: Nations Have Obligation To Limit Climate Change
Severe weather and natural disasters, are on the rise. This week, the top United Nations court ruled that countries are ...
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International Court of Justice to deliver landmark climate ruling
The top UN court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out ...
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IUCN welcomes International Court of Justice's historic climate change Advisory Opinion
Today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States to protect the ...
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How Climate Justice Reached the UN’s Top Court—and Won
The International Court of Justice’s ruling that countries have a legal duty to curb climate change was the result of a ...
International Court of Justice lays the groundwork for climate 'reparations'
In a landmark, unanimous advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice found that a state's violation of its legal ...
International Court of Justice says countries failing to tackle climate change risk breaking international law
The opinion of the International Court of Justice is seen by some as a turning point in international climate law, with ...
World Court Climate Change Opinion Validates Trump’s Paris Agreement Concerns
The ICJ issued an opinion on climate change that stated the obligations of the Paris Agreement come with legal liability. A ...
ICJ begins handing down watershed climate opinion
The world's top court will Wednesday deliver a landmark ruling laying out what legal obligations countries have to prevent ...