The court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed that countries must uphold existing international laws ...

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

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

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

The International Court of Justice says governments are legally obliged “to achieve deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in ...

The ruling was the result of years of efforts by activists and small island nations and initiated by Pacific Islands Students ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a unanimous opinion on July 23, 2025, that climate change is "an existential ...

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

The opinion of the International Court of Justice is seen by some as a turning point in international climate law, with ...

Today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States to protect the ...

The opinion by the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, was immediately welcomed by environmental ...

The Paris Agreement struck through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has rallied a global response to ...