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

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

The U.N. General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice in 2023 for an advisory opinion, a non-binding but ...

The International Court of Justice says governments are legally obliged “to achieve deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in ...

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 Paris Agreement struck through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has rallied a global response to ...

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

The ICJ called climate change an “urgent and existential threat” caused by human activity. Though nonbinding, its opinion may ...

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

The United Nations’ top court says countries failing to implement measures to mitigate climate change may be in violation of ...