The Court affirmed that a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right, and that states have binding legal duties to mitigate climate harm under international law.

The ICJ ruling is blunt: the multilateral climate change and environmental agreements and treaties that countries–including ...

Last week’s advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is a gamechanger in the long-running global ...

The International Court of Justice’s ruling that countries have a legal duty to curb climate change was the result of a ...

Environment Secretary Raphael PM Lotilla welcomed the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), ...

The ruling was the result of years of efforts by activists and small island nations and initiated by Pacific Islands Students ...

Severe weather and natural disasters, are on the rise. This week, the top United Nations court ruled that countries are ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a unanimous opinion on July 23, 2025, that climate change is "an existential ...

In a landmark, unanimous advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice found that a state's violation of its legal ...

The International Court of Justice says governments are legally obliged “to achieve deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in ...

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

The opinion of the International Court of Justice is seen by some as a turning point in international climate law, with ...