An opinion by the World Court finds new legal requirements in the Paris Agreement, raising legal questions about the U.S.

Recently, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a landmark ruling that could breathe new life into the climate ...

This obligation arises from human rights, maritime and the customary international law, as well as the Paris Agreement and ...

In South Africa, this is aligned with the Climate Change Act. This new law, passed in 2024, phases down and phases out human ...

As Australia’s courts rule yet again that climate is outside their jurisdiction, the ICJ made it a legal obligation for countries to act on the crisis.

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

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

ICJ advisory opinion on climate obligations reaffirms global South's perspective, raises questions on Paris Agreement ...

The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global legal victory with the International Court of Justice ...

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

Legal jurisdictions can no longer wring their hands in anguish and complain that they do not have enough authority or precedence to rule on matters relating to climate change.

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