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 ...

An activist holds a fan that reads "make polluters pay" as they demonstrate outside the International Court of Justice ahead of an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address ...

Wyo., alongside U.S. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., on Thursday introduced legislation to protect American taxpayers from attempts by international courts to impose climate change ...

In a landmark advisory opinion dated 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) has unanimously found that States are legally bound to protect the environment from greenhouse gas ...

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

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 ...

States have a responsibility to take appropriate measures to prevent significant harm to the climate system. States obligations go beyond those contained in climate change treaties and other relevant ...

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 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 ...

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 ...