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

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

Last week’s advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is a gamechanger in the long-running global ...

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 ...

In the court hearings, youth activists representing vulnerable communities from frontline states in the Pacific and the ...

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

The advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice is a legal milestone. Conceived by law students from small ...

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

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 ...

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

Countries have very strong obligations under international law to cut climate pollution and prevent significant harm to the ...