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

The UN has opened the door to Britain being sued over its historic contribution to climate change. In a significant legal ...

The world's highest court Wednesday declared that states have a legal obligation to tackle climate change and that failing to ...

The UN's top court on Wednesday ruled climate change an "existential problem of planetary proportions" and said countries had ...

The ICJ has been tasked with crafting a so-called advisory opinion on countries' obligations to prevent climate change and ...

The case has been dubbed a ‘David versus Goliath’ battle, with vulnerable nations pushing for a more robust legal framework ...

While the ruling is seen as a victory for countries that are vulnerable to climate change, the ICG judge in the Hague, ...

The world's top court on Wednesday began delivering a much-anticipated ruling laying out what legal obligations countries ...

THE HAGUE, July 23 (Reuters) - The United Nations' highest court on Wednesday underlined "the urgent and existential threat posed by climate change" as it started to read out an opinion on the legal ...

The top United Nations court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that ...

It found that failure to act on emissions, including through fossil fuel production, subsidies and licenses, could constitute ...