A South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis brought “the world's biggest problem to the world's ...

On 2 May 2025, the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) – in collaboration with the African Climate Platform, the Environmental Lawyers Collective for Africa, Natural Justice, and resilient40 – submitted ...

A: "We thought it was necessary to take a legal approach to the issue of climate change because we feel that the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) process, which has ...

The ICJ case builds on long-standing frustration with slow progress at climate summits. “We’ve been involved in the UNFCCC process, the COPs, for like 30 years.

Tired of pleading for countries to act on climate change, Vanuatu upped the ante -- it asked the world's highest court if governments were legally obligated to do something about it.

As Vanuatu's environment minister, he has taken the decades-long climate fight by Pacific nations to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, hoping to safeguard their islands' survival.

Back to homepage / Live news 'We have to try everything': Vanuatu envoy taking climate fight to ICJ Nice (France) (AFP) – Tired of pleading for countries to act on climate change, Vanuatu upped ...

Thailand’s prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been suspended from her duties following a ruling by the Constitutional ...

The Itlos advisory opinion was cited around 250 times during the ICJ’s climate hearings, which took place in December. But Akhavan says some states involved in the hearings put forward a “creative ...

The treaty is seen as a hopeful model for climate mobility, but is the result of “a deeply saddening” reality for Tuvalu.View ...