The court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed that countries must uphold existing international laws related to climate change and, if they fail to act, could be held responsible ...

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 ...

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

The International Court of Justice ruling that climate harm violates international law is expected to shape current — and ...

When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns b ...

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

In the Great Hall of the Peace Palace in The Hague, fifteen judges of the International Court of Justice spoke in rare and unanimous clarity when they declared, at last, that a clean, healthy, and ...

States promoting fossil fuels could be violating international law, and reparations are on the table, the International Court ...

Protection from climate change is a human right, and countries in violation of the now international law will be held ...

The International Court of Justice found that polluting countries are now legally obligated to address global warming.