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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave an advisory opinion on the obligation of states to protect the ...

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

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

The world’s highest court has issued a ruling that could pave the way for climate justice, enabling polluting nations to be ...

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