The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries' legal obligation to fight climate ...

Officials from almost 100 countries are at the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands, asking the court to issue an opinion on the responsibility of certain nations to protect the ...

In 2023, the U.N. General Assembly voted to ask the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on the legal obligations countries have to combat climate change and what they must do to ...

The judge found Australia had not used the best available science to set emissions targets. The finding tightens the screws ...

“We have not created the issue. We are the victims of the issue. However, we are not going to act like victims. We are going ...

A round-up of news from around the region, including a long-anticipated decision from the International Court of Justice on ...

While the White House takes a sledgehammer to critical climate policy, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights announced a ...

THE HAGUE - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced on Monday that it will deliver its advisory opinion on the ...

At its core, this case asks the court to clarify how existing principles of international law apply to the greatest existential threat humanity has ever faced: climate change. Specifically, the ...

Niki Widdowson, ‘Torres Strait Islander climate change decision by Fed Court at odds with UN’, Media Alert, QUT,16 July 2025, ...

Viviana Krsticevic, executive director of the Center for Justice and International Law ... said that it was the first time an international court had “directly addressed climate change as a legal and ...

The government has been found to have no legal duty to protect Torres Strait Islanders from climate change. That’s not the ...