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

The International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court, handed down an advisory opinion on 23 July 2025 stating that climate change “imperils all forms of life”. This followed a case brought by ...

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

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

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

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

In a landmark, unanimous advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice found that a state's violation of its legal ...

The International Court of Justice has issued a landmark opinion reinforcing governments' duty to combat climate change, ...

A landmark opinion delivered by the United Nations' highest court last week that governments must protect the climate is ...

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

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