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

The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The ...

In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an ...

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

After a “landmark” ruling from the International Court of Justice, journalists can expect more lawsuits against fossil fuel ...

Legal minds in international law are trying to interpret the scope and impact of the landmark advisory opinion on climate change by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where it said that states ...

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

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

The International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court, handed down an advisory opinion on 23 July 2025 stating that climate change “imperils all forms of life”. This followed a case brought by ...

The United Nations’ top court has issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change. The International Court of Justice’s ...

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.

The world's top court will Wednesday deliver a seminal ruling laying out what legal obligations countries have to prevent ...