Pacific Island nations are weighing up how to use a historic international court ruling in their fight to bring about ...

They watched climate change ravage their home countries as rich, polluting nations did nothing. Then they had an idea.

The International Court of Justice case on climate change has implications for countries negotiating debt deals.

Australia's move to expand Woodside's North West Shelf gas project has not been welcomed in the Pacific, which is fighting ...

A senior Pacific minister has warned Australia's energy transition is no longer defensible, following a landmark legal ruling ...

Vanuatu's climate change adaptation minister Ralph Regenvanu says a recent World Court advisory opinion has reset the legal framework on climate change.

Judges at the the United Nations’ top court sided with France in a long-running legal tug-of-war with Equatorial Guinea over ...

Ralph Regenvanu this week sat in his air-conditioned office in Port Vila, hanging the threat of international legal action over Australia.

A July ruling from the International Court of Justice is clear: nations can face consequences if they don’t act on the climate crisis.

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

Pacific Island leaders issued a call for an "ocean of peace" on Wednesday, urging respect for their sovereignty at a summit ...

Anthony Albanese has rejected suggestions approving a major gas project off WA will jeopardise Pacific relations and declared ...