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

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

On July, 26, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the legal ...

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

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

The Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. (PMPI) affirms the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) historic advisory opinion ...

The court said all states have a legal obligation to prevent harms caused by climate change. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Climate change is an existential problem of “planetary proportions” that affects all forms of life and the very health of the ...

An International Court of Justice ruling that climate harm violates international law could shape reparations lawsuits as ...

The ruling stems from the harm island nations are suffering as sea level rises, and it opens a door for future claims for ...

An advisory opinion on responsibility for emissions means that Canada could be on the hook for major climate-change-related ...