The Hague, Netherlands - The top United Nations court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out top polluters' responsibilities ...

Green lawyers are using the new global climate change legal opinion to challenge Shell in South Africa, and resist the ...

Despite Trump’s “America First” policies, Tigre and other legal experts say that the U.S. is still bound by what is known as ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations' top court has issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change, its 15 black-robed judges weighing in for the first time on what the court's ...

The International Court of Justice’s ruling that countries have a legal duty to curb climate change was the result of a yearslong campaign that began with university students. Vanuatu’s Climate Change ...

The United Nations‘s top court issued a nonbinding declaration Wednesday that countries are obligated to take action against climate change. If states fail to take measures to mitigate climate change, ...

Pacific Island nations are weighing up how to use a historic international court ruling in their fight to bring about stronger emissions reductions and climate justice.

The United Nations’s top court announced Wednesday that if countries fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, they could be in violation of international law. The International ...

THE HAGUE — The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion Wednesday said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from ...