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

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

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

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

The Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. (PMPI) affirms the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) historic advisory opinion ...

The ruling stems from the harm island nations are suffering as sea level rises, and it opens a door for future claims for ...

In the court hearings, youth activists representing vulnerable communities from frontline states in the Pacific and the ...

On July, 26, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the legal ...

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

Last week’s advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is a gamechanger in the long-running global ...

The Pacific Elders' Voice, or PEV, an independent group made up of Pacific Island leaders, has issued a statement applauding ...

Climate change is an existential problem of “planetary proportions” that affects all forms of life and the very health of the ...