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

According to the ICJ, it is the responsibility of the states to protect the earth’s climate systems and environment from ...

The question we have been asking is ‘what will Labor do with power?” Now we have the answer – the least possible.

In the Great Hall of the Peace Palace in The Hague, fifteen judges of the International Court of Justice spoke in rare and unanimous clarity when they declared, at last, that a clean, healthy, and ...

By saying that all countries were firmly bound to a swathe of legal obligations, experts say the ruling will influence ...

On Wednesday, PBS’s Amanpour & Company featured eponymous host Christiane Amanpour interviewing and lamenting to Vanuatu ...

The International Court of Justice said that climate change threatens all life and may violate human rights. It also said ...

The young activist who has pushed for six years for international law to clarify the duty of larger nations to protect smaller ones from climate change sees new hope in this week’s UN ruling.

In a landmark advisory opinion on July 23, the International Court of Justice said all countries have significant legal ...

States promoting fossil fuels could be violating international law, and reparations are on the table, the International Court ...

In the historic decision of the International Court of Justice has ruled that countries can sue one another over climate ...