The students set their sights on the Pacific Islands Forum, the region's pre-eminent political group, which that year was ...

The International Court of Justice ruling that climate harm violates international law is expected to shape current — and ...

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

The advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice is a legal milestone. Conceived by law students from small ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amy Cilimburg writes, In a landmark decision, the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ), the world’s highest court, ruled that nation states must prevent harm to the climate system and ...

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