The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has advised that the level of climate finance given to developing countries must be compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5C ...

The island nation of Tuvalu is becoming the first country to be completely lost due to rising sea levels. However, the country is possibly only the first of many without actions taken to mitigate ...

President William Lai (賴清德) yesterday apologized for the failure to recall any of the 24 Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) ...

The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global legal victory with the International Court of Justice ...

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

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

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.

Legal jurisdictions can no longer wring their hands in anguish and complain that they do not have enough authority or precedence to rule on matters relating to climate change.

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

The world's wealthiest nations have a legal obligation to reduce heat-trapping pollution and will have to pay up if they do ...

Last week, the UN’s highest court issued a stinging ruling that countries have a legal obligation to limit climate change and ...