Journalist and author Kel Richards discusses Vanuatu’s Climate Change Minister threatening Australia with legal action.

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave an advisory opinion on the obligation of states to protect the ...

Columbia University agreed on July 23, 2025, to pay a US$200 million fine to the federal government and to settle allegations that it did not create a safe environment for Jewish students during ...

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

Among the key points in the ICJ ruling is that countries have binding legal obligations under the United Nations (UN) climate ...

This calls for both introspection and retrospection at personal, communal and government levels. This should pave the way for ...

A historic climate ruling by the world’s highest court could make it legally riskier for fossil fuel companies to do business ...

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

According to the ICJ, it is the responsibility of the states to protect the earth’s climate systems and environment from ...

If an international court told the Western world to jump off a cliff, would we do it? We may be about to find out. The UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), ruled on Wednesday that ...

The world’s top court may not be able to compel polluting states to halt planet-warming emissions, but experts say its ...