A South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis brought “the world's biggest problem to the world's ...

On 2 May 2025, the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) – in collaboration with the African Climate Platform, the Environmental Lawyers Collective for Africa, Natural Justice, and resilient40 – submitted ...

The decision by the international tribunal in Costa Rica could reshape domestic climate cases across Latin America.

Africa is least responsible for climate change but worst affected. Exploring climate justice within international courts is a step in the right direction.

In December 2024, the International Court of Justice agreed for the first time to provide an advisory opinion on what states are obliged to do to fight climate change and set out the legal ...

JURIST Staff, US JULIANA V. UNITED STATES: CASE ANALYIS Climate change is the biggest problem of our time. It is a problem spanning generations and across continents, ...

As a former Hawaii Supreme Court Justice and a judge for over twenty years, it is apparent to me that the most important ...

A recently unveiled memo from the Department of Justice indicates Donald Trump’s administration plans to “maximally pursue” ...

As Vanuatu's environment minister, he has taken the decades-long climate fight by Pacific nations to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, hoping to safeguard their islands' survival.

The court affirmed that major emitters ‘can, in principle, be held responsible for climate-related harms,’ says Joy Reyes of LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the ...

Vermont Democrats prepare for a long fight in federal court, but they believe making oil companies pay for past greenhouse ...