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 court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed that countries must uphold existing international laws ...

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

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 court president judge Yuji Iwasawa said during last week’s ruling that countries’ failure to take appropriate action to ...

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

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 says governments are legally obliged “to achieve deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in ...

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

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave an advisory opinion on the obligation of states to protect the climate system and the environment from manmade emissions of greenhouse ...