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

Among the key points in the ICJ ruling is that countries have binding legal obligations under the United Nations (UN) climate ...

This calls for both introspection and retrospection at personal, communal and government levels. This should pave the way for ...

A historic climate ruling by the world’s highest court could make it legally riskier for fossil fuel companies to do business ...

The ICJ issued an opinion on climate change that stated the obligations of the Paris Agreement come with legal liability. A ...

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

If an international court told the Western world to jump off a cliff, would we do it? We may be about to find out. The UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), ruled on Wednesday that ...

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 ...

The world’s top court has made it easier for governments to be held legally accountable for failing to tackle the climate ...

Rachel Reeves, beware. Britain could soon be facing yet more eye-watering demands for reparations. But not just because of ...

In a ground-breaking decision, the International Court of Justice has paved the way for countries to sue each other for the ...