Halfway through marathon climate change hearings at the world's top court, battle lines are being drawn between wealthy and ...

The campaign to bring the case to the ICJ was initiated in 2019 by 27 law students at the University of the South Pacific in ...

Nations on the front line of the climate crisis are asking the International Court of Justice to obligate big polluters to ...

The United Nations' top court will consider if the world’s largest carbon-emitting nations should pay reparations to smaller, ...

The international court of justice (ICJ) is considering similar questions to these in hearings ahead of issuing an advisory ...

"Climate change has shattered our lives. It's stolen our livelihoods, our food, and our peace. Our waters are poisoned, our ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN), commenced hearings on the ...

Pakistan has outlined the “apocalyptic” impacts of climate change on its population and economy, highlighting the 2022 floods ...

Legal clarity from the International Court of Justice would be a first step towards climate reparations to those who had ...

The UN’s court will soon clarify nations’ legal responsibility to avert the human rights impacts of climate catastrophe.

Activists hope the ICJ opinion will have far-reaching legal consequences in the fight against climate change, impacting ongoing court cases as well as domestic and international legislation.

The initiative quickly became a global movement which, led by young people from the Pacific Island state, aims to clarify the ...